100 | ORD. VI. Umbellatee. BUBON CALBANUM. « 
matter still uncertain.? It seems highly probable that Galbanum is‘ 
obtained from different species of the Bubon,’ though, upon the’ 
authority of Linneus, the. London, Edinburgh, and other medical 
eile confine their reference to the species we have figured, 
The juice is obtained partly by its spontaneous exudation from 
the joints of the stem, but more generally and in greater abundance 
by making an incision in the stalk a few inches above the root, 
from which it immediately issues, and soon becomes sufficiently 
concrete to be gathered. 
~ Galbanum is commonly imported into Basil from Turkey, and 
from the East-Indies, in large softish ductile pale-coloured masses, 
which by age acquire a brownish yellow appearance; these are 
intermixed with distinct white grumes or tears, which are accounted | 
the best part of the mass; but the separate hard tears are externally 
of a ferruginous colour, and always preferred to the mass. itself. 
Geoffroy distinguishes the former into Gaibanon en larmes, and the 
latter into Galbanon en pains. Spielman mentions a liquid sort of 
Galbanum which is brought from Persia, “ Prostat etiam interdum 
Galbanum liquidum ex Persia, consistentia terebinthine instructum, 
cui multe feces nigre commixiz sunt, tempore ast fundum sece- 
dentes, odorem resina,nunguam Galbani, habet,”* has 
a strong unpleasant smell, and a warm bitterish actid. taste; “ like 
the other gummy resins it unites with water by trituration inte a 
. Geiuink ia planta, que Galbanum officinarum fundit, nostri seculi Bo« 
tanicis nondum innotuit. Ferulaceam esse yeteres docent omnes, quenam yero 
species sit, non constat. Parad. Bat. |. c. 
Hermann is certainly a good authority; he was an intelligent physician, and 
practised. many years in the East-Indies, about the latter end of the last century, 
and also at the Cape of Good Hope: his judgment therefore, as well as his fidelity, 
is at least equal to that of Plukenett’s, which. Linnzus prefers. ' 
~~ * Phares extare possunt stirpes, que succum Galbano similem stillant, ut de 
variis lachrymis que inter se conyeniunt & e diversis stirpibus leguntur, nobis 
compertnm est. Herm. lL. ¢ “ * Mat, Med. p. 560, 
