180 Brigade-Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Nokfi on Products 



raw or cooked ; when cooked they make a rather nice 

 vegetable, losing their extreme bitterness. The Scorzonera 

 or Vipers-grass, cultivated as a vegetable in our gardens in 

 England, is Scorzonera hispanica. 



Sealing-wax — Idk — chiefly comes from Bokhara, a 

 little from Persia ; it is mostly used by the 

 jewellers in their trade. 



Seh — v^x^ — dh — the Apple, Pyrus Malus. 



Seb-i-zammi — [earth-apple], the Potato, Solanum 



TUBEROSUM. 



Seh-i-zammi-angrez — [English-earth-apple] ; the 

 Jerusalem Artichoke, the tubers of Helianthus 



TUBEROSUS. 



Sebestens — the fruit of Cordia Myxa. 

 Sebist, sepist, sipist — C^x^ — Lucerne, Medick, 

 Medicago sativa. 



Secale cereale, Linn. Graminb.e. 



Kye, gandam-ddr, jao-tak-tah. As a weed very largely 

 affecting the wheat fields of the country ; in some instances 

 the fields appeared more rye than wheat, it is very rarely 

 found to occur amongst barley, though I did find it in a 

 field of barley at Bezd. The grain is not considered as in- 

 jurious to those eating it when so largely mixing with wheat, 

 but when diseased by the presence of Ergot, sla-Jchclk, the 

 grain is known to be injurious to the health. I am of the 

 opinion that rye here, as in the Kuram Valley, is an indi- 

 genous weed of the wheat fields. 



Seed — ddna, ddne, cliam, hob, p'da, tukhm ; a small 



seed, ddnah. 

 Seedless — be-ddna, bl-ddna. 

 Seed-vessel — capsule, hawa. 

 Senna — the leaves of Cassia obovata, and other 



species employed in medicine. 

 Sepdru, supdr'i — t^U^-w- — the Areca nut, the nut of 



the Area catechu Palm. 



