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_ is used as a winter fodder for sheep and goats; it is described 
as being heating and fat producing, besides being a reliable 
remedy against the dangerous Fasciola hepatica, which often 
_ causes the death of thousands of sheep, especially after a wet 
autumn. Mr. Moorcroft drew special attention to the fact 
that the plant possessed a remarkable vital force, and thrived 
well in very poor soil without requiring culture or manure. - 
Only one bad quality was ascribed to it, viz., its having been 
observed that horses fed on its fruit suffered frequently from 
_ inflammation of the eyes and were sometimes subject to tem- 
_ porary blindness. Its cultivation was then tried in various 
_ colonies, especially at the Cape, but it scems that the great 
_ advantages expected from it were not realised, for no later 
- information is available. 
— Asa medicine Prangos commands a certain amount of interest, 
_ its fruit being sold by Mahometan druggists in India under 
_ the name of Fiturasaliyun as a substitute for the Petroselinon 
_ or Rock parsley of the Greeks, and Karafs-el-jibali of the Arabs, 
_ aplant which has not been identified, and which is described 
_ by Dioscorides as having fruit like Ammi, and as being | carmi~ 
native, diuretic and emmenagogue. 
The late Dr. Royle was of opinion that Prangos w was probably 
_ the kind of Silphium mentioned by Arrian, the historian of the 
_ campaigns of Alexander the Great, who records that in the part 
of the Caucasian mountains which corresponds to the present 
indu Kush, only pines and silphium grow, and as the country 
