286. PIMPINELLA ANISUM, L. 



a. Fruit. (Alicant Aniseed.) 



b. Ditto. (German Aniseed.) 



c. Ditto. (Russian Aniseed.) 



Note. Russian auiseed is much smaller than the other varieties ,bi-ing 

 about the size of hemlock fruit, from which it may be distinguished at 

 sight by the persistent fruit stalks and the mericarps remaining united. 

 The Alicaut variety is the best. Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii., pt. ii., p. 162 ; 

 Pharmacographia, p. 277. Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plantt, tab. 122. 



287. PTYCHOTIS AJOWAN, D. C. (True Bishop's Weed.) 



a. Fruits. (Ajowan Seeds, Semen Ajavce.) 

 Note. The fruits are official in the Ind. Pharm., under the name of 

 Carum Ajowan, Benth, and are used as a carminative. The fruits are 

 covered with minute tubercles, by which, and by their thyme-like odour, 

 they may be distinguished from the seeds of Apium graveolens, A. in- 

 volucratum, and A. petroselinum, which in size and shape they much 

 resemble. Ind. Pharm., p. 99; Pharmacographia, p. 271, art. Ammi 

 Copticum; P. J. [1], vol. xiv., p. 272. For fig., see P. J. [3], vol. i., 

 p. 1007. Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 120. 



288. SAQAPENDM. 



a. Gum resin ; Sagapenum in lump. 



b. Ditto ; Ditto in tears. 



c. Ditto ; Ditto somewhat agglutinated. 



Note. The botanical source of the drug is unknown. In mediaeval 

 times it was called serapinum. It smells like assafoetida, but less 

 strongly, and differs in the tears not becoming pink when broken and 

 exposed to the air. Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii., pt. ii., p. 183 ; Pharmaco- 

 graphia, p. 291. 



289. SELINUM PALDSTEE, L. ; PEDCEDANUM MONTANUM, Koch. 



a. Root. 



Note. The root is used like ginger in Russia. In Courland it is 

 used for epilepsy. Lindley's FL Med., p. 49. P. J. [2], vol, i., p. 234. 



290. THAPSIA GARGANICA, var. y. SILPHIOM, D. C. 



a. Root. 



Note. This specimen was presented by Dr. A. Leared, and was received 

 by him from Mogador. The small specimen in the same bottle was brought 

 from Cyrenaica by Vice-Consul Henderson, of Bengazi. See P. J. [3], vol. 

 iv., p. 598. A leaf of the plant is in the Herbarium of the Society. It 

 is distinguished from the typical plant by the leaves being hairy, and by 

 their having re volute margins. DC C undo lie Prodromut, vol. iv., p. 202. 



ARALIACE^E. 



291. ARALIA SPINOSA, L. (Angelica Tree, Toothache Tree, Prickly 



Elder.) 



a. Bark. (Aralia Bark.) 



b. Root. 



Note. Official in the secondary list of the U. S. P. It is used as a 

 stimulant and diaphoretic. Amer. Dispens., p. 125. 



