122 ORD: VI. Umbellate. ERYNGIUM MARTIMUM. 
‘who with other ancient writers speak highly of its medicinal efficacy. 
‘The root, which is the part directed for medicinal use, has no pecu- 
liar smell, but to the taste it manifests a grateful sweetness, and on 
‘being chewed for some time it discovers a light aromatic warmth or 
pungency. By Boerhaave this was esteemed the principal of the 
aperient roots, and he usually prescribed it as a diuretic and antiscor- 
butic:* it has likewise been celebrated for its aphrodisiac powers.* 
But this and the other = ascribed to Eyrngo seem now to ob- 
tain er little credit. 
4 Vide, 6 . 
© &* Non male tum Graiis florens Eryngus in hortis 
*¢ Queritur: hunc gremio portet si nupta virentem 
*¢ Nunquam inconcessos conjux meditabitur ignes. 
Rapinus in Boer. Hist. 
‘The root is frequent] y candied, or made into a sweet meat. 
The young flowering shvots boiled, have the flavour of asparagus. Lin. Flor. Suec. 
een rr RS Te 
PASTINACA OPOPANAX. OPOPANAX, or ROUGH PARSNEP. 
Opopanax, gummi-resina. Pharm. Lond, 
SYNONYMA. Panax costinum. Bauh. Pin. p. 156. Panax 
Heracleum. Morris Hist. t. iii, p. 315. Boccone, Journ. des Scav. 
1676. p. 28. Gerard Emac. p. 1003. Raitt Hist. p. 410. Hera- 
cleum alterum, sive peregrinum Dodonzi. Park. Theat, p. 948. 
Pastinaca sylvestris altissima. Tourn. Inst. p.319. P.Opopanax. | 
» Gouan, Illustr. 19. t. 13, 14. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 362. 
£iss. Gen. Ch. Fruétus cared compresso-planus. Petala invo- 
uta, integra. 
Sp. Ch. P. foliis pinnatis: foliolis basi antica excisis, Syst. Veg. 
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