120 ORD. Vi. Umbelate. APIUM PETROSELINUM 
bruised leaves have been successfully used as a decutient poultice 
to various kinds of tumours.* Although Parsley. is so commonly 
used at table, it is remarkable that facts have been adduced to prove 
that in some constitutions it occasions epilepsy, or at least aggra- 
vates the epileptic fits in those who are subject to this disease.’ Ii 
has been supposed also to produce inflammation in the cyes.* 
* We are told by Lange, (Misc. verit. med. p. 26) that this application has 
succeeded in scirrhous tamours where Cicuta and Mercury had failed 
* Hannemannus, in Eph. Nat. Cur. Dec. 3. A. 3. p. 78. And. Marriotte in 
Journ. de Med. ¢. 23. p. 545. 
® See Boyle’s Works, ¢ 1. p. 503. Alston’s Lect. on. M. M. vol. és p. 38%. 
And cited by Murray. 
. 
= ERYNGIUM* MARITIMUM., Soret SEA sameuntaiee or’ HOLLY. 
re 
VNR TER” ee pia Paarm. Lond. Bauh. Pin. ?p. 386. 
Eryngium marinum. Gerard. Emac. p. 1162. Park. Theat. 
p. 986. J. Bauh. Hist. vol. iti. p. 86.. Raii Hist. p. 384. 
Synop. p. 222. Eryngium maritimum. , Bauh. Pinar. p. 386. 
Hudson. Flor, Ang. Smith Brit. Withering. Bot. Arrang. p. 264. 
» Flor. Dan. tab. 875. ae - 
Class. Pentandria, . Ord. PiBTAR Lin. Gen. Plant, 324...» « 
5 
7 “Grect aa tes avin quasi sevyues, id est recie dictum putant, 
quod capre que morsu surculum Eryngii preciderint, vel deglutiverint, cunctum. 
“ gregem pone “cee f quasi stupore attonitum s oe donec Eryngium ructu 
rejecerint. C. Banh 
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