IMPERATORIA OSTRUTHIUM.- ORD, VI. Umbcllate. 117 
is roundish, ‘striated, truncated, above white, beneath greenish: 
the two styles are tapering, spreading, and a little shorter than the 
stamina; the stigmata are simple and obtuse. The flowers appear 
in May and July. ‘ 
Masterwort may be considered as a native of Scotland, Mr.— 
Lightfoot having found it growing in several places on the banks 
of t the Clyde. It is frequently cultivated in our gardens; but the 
root, which is the part directed for medical use, is greatly inferior 
to that produced in the South of Europe, especially in mountainous 
situations: hence the shops are re genctally supplied with i it from the 
Alps and Pyrenees. 
This root has a fragrant smell, and a bitterish pungent tas 
leaving a glowing warmth in.the mouth for some time after it e. 
been chewed. Its virtues are extracted both by watery and 
spirituous menstrua, but more completely by the latter. . 
This plant, as its name* imports, was formerly thought to be of 
singular efficacy, and was preferred to most of the other aromatics,. 
for its alexipharmic and sudorific powers. In some diseases” it was 
employed with so much success oe to be distinguished by the name 
of “divinum remedium.”* At present, however, physicians con- 
ps this root merely as an aromatic, and it is of course superseded 
of that class of a superi« or character. -Half a dram of the 
toot sibetance and one dram of it’ in oe is the dose 
wa pine ceantaacia ob tak poeseciet fecnlmieg puns. fuit.” Vide Bauh. 
Pin. 5. ey 
> ie Atala lak which it has been ety: nc Sinsiiiseded? baat tg 
Hydrops, Colica, Eersistio Yoats Febres intermittentes.. It has been also 
Bes as a sialag: 
“ ae “. €, Hoffman, Ofcin c, 2. £4,216. 
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