UMBELLIFER:. 133 
430 B.C., as a herb sold by the greengrocers. In his Acharnes 
ine 478) he has oxdvdixd pos dds, pyrpdbev dedeypévos in allusion to 
the mother of Euripedes being a seller of Chervil. Theophras- 
3 and Diocorides were well acquainted with it, and describe it 
_ asdiuretic, stomachic and deobstruent. Pliny (22, 38,) speaks 
of Scandix aud Authriscum as nearly the same plants,—the lat- 
_ ter appears to have been the cultivated chervil—he says :—“ Its - 
_ principal virtue is that it re-invigorates the body when exhausted 
_ by sexual excesses, and acts as a stimulant upon the enfeebled 
powers of old age.” Ibn Sina calls it Rijl-el-ghur4b, and says 
that Paulus and others have recommended it in colic. Haji 
_ Zein-el-Attar (A.D. 1868) has the following account of Atrilal; 
_ “There are two kinds of sced, dark and light-coloured like 
_ celery seed in size, and cumin in shape, very bitter. The 
light coloured is the largest, and is the kind called Khilal-i- 
Khalil in Persian; this is true Atril4l, different from the Egyp- 
tian: it grows at Ahwaz. The Egyptian kind is also called 
Rijl-el-tair, Rijl-cl-ghurab, and Harj-es-shayatin “ devil’s bane”’. 
Atrilél is useful in white leprosy and tetter. One dirham 
alone, or with one dang of Pyrethrum, is rubbed down 
ischarge of yellow serum from the affected part, and the skin 
ecovers its natural colour. The powdered seeds used as a 
snuff cause abortion.” In the Madd-el-k4mus, Lane has the 
following summary from Arabian authorities :—Rijl-el-ghurab 
signifies a certain herb called, in the language of the Barbar, 
Atildl, and in the present day Zir-el-akileh, resembling the 
flower is white, and it forms grains nearly like those of Mak; 
diinis (parsley), A dirham of its seeds, bruised and mixed : 
honey, is a tried remedy for eradicating the eat 
leprosy) and the Ge (tetter) being drunk, and, someti 
ad to it a quarter of a dirham of pellit tb 
