' CORIANDRUM SATIVUM. ORD. VI. Umbellate. 139 
These seeds, like those last mentioned, and indeed those of most 
of the umbelliferous plants, possess a stomachic and carminative 
power.. They are directed in the infusum amarum, the infusum 
senne tartarisatum, and some other compositions of the Pharmaco- 
poeias; and according to Dr. Cullen, the principal use of these 
seeds is; “that, infused along with senna, they more powerfully 
correct the odour and taste of this than any other aromatic that I 
have employed; and are, I believe, equally powerful.in obviating 
the griping that senna is very ready to produce.” 
8 Mat. Med. vol. ii. p. 158. 
SIUM NODIFLORUM. . (CREEPING WATER PARSNEP. 
SYNONYMA. Sium. Pharm. Lond. Siam aquaticutt pro- 
cumbens, ad alas floridum. Moris. Hist. tit. p. 283. 8.9. t. 5. 3. 
Petiv. t. 26. f. 3. Sium umbellatum repens. Gerard. Emac. p. 
256. Rait Synop. p. 211. Hist. 444. Sium foliis radicalibus 
ovatis, pinnatis, dentatis; caulinis appendiculatis; umbellis 
‘glaribus. ‘Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 778. 8. nodifloram. Hudson. 
“Flor. Ang. p. 119. Withering. Bot. Arr. p. 292. Lightfoot. 
Flor, Scot. p. 161. Rethan. Flor, Cantab.p. 116. Smith. Brit. 
313. Eng. Bot. 639. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen, Plant. 348. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Fructus subovatus, striatus. Invelucrumpolyphyllum, 
: Petala cordata. om3 
Sp. Ch. S. foliis pinnatis, umbellis axillaribus sessilibus. 
