149 ORD. VI. Umbcllate. LIGUSTICUM LEVISTICUM. 
are oblong, on one side striated and convex, on the other flat and 
smooth: the flowers appear in June and July. It is a native of the 
Alps, and according to Mr. Aiton was first cultivated in England by 
Mr. Gerard. 
The odour of this plant i is very strong, and peculiarly ungrateful ; 
its taste is warm and aromatic. It abouimeds with a yellowish gummy 
resinous juice, very much resembling opoponax. _ Its virtues are 
supposed to be similar to those of angelica and masterwort in ex-_ 
pelling flatulencies, exciting sweat, and opening obstructions; there- 
fore chiefly used in hysterical disorders, and in uterine obstructions. 
A teacupful of the juice with rhenish wine, or a decoction of the 
seeds with wine or mugwort water, was; by Forestus,* said to bea 
secret remedy of extraordinary efficacy in slow or laborious partu- 
tition. The leaves, eaten as sallad, are accounted emmenagogue.” 
The root, which is less ungrateful than the leaves, is said to possess | 
sumilar virtues, and may be employed in powder. 
-* See Forest. lib. 28. obs. 32, in schol. - * Chomel. Usuelles, t. 2. p. 216. 
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CUMINUM CYMINUM. ) -_CUMMIN. 
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SYNONYMA. Cuminum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Cuminum 
semine longiore. Bauh. Pin. p. 146. Cuminum sativum Diosco- 
ridis. Gerard. Emac. p. 1066. Cyminum, sive Cuminum sativum. 
J. Bauh. iii.p.22. Raii Hist. p. 433. Cuminum vulgare. Park. 
Theat. p. 887. Cuminum. Mor. Umb.4. Hist. Oxon. iii. p. 271. 
Feeniculum orientale, Cuminum dictum. Tourn. Inst.312. Icon.. 
Rivin. Pentap. t. 40. 
Class Pentandria. .Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. $51. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Fructus ovatus, striatus. Umbellule 4. Involucra 4-fida. 
