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On the fea-rocks at Tynemouth-ca.ft.\&. The root is 

 moderately large, white, and acrid. The ftalk is robuft, round, 

 jointed, ftriated, and branched, three or four feet high. The 

 leaves are pinnated, and ferrated at the edges. The flowers are 

 of a greenifh-white, in large umbels. The feed is large, black, 

 and ftriated. It is a fcarce plant. Both the roots, young moots, 

 and leaves, are ufed as a fallad in the fpring with vinegar and 

 fallad oil ; the roots fometimes boiled ; very nourishing -, good 

 for the fcurvy ; and, according to Boerhaave, for the afthma. It 

 flowers in June and July. 



54. Smallage (x), the leaves of which are like thofe of Alex- 

 anders, but not fo large, is not unfrequent by flow running waters 

 and fprings in fhady places. It is an excellent remedy for the 

 dropfy, boiled in fmall ale. I have known an eminent cure done 

 by it in the fouth of England. The perfon cured was a young 

 woman of twenty-eight years of age. She was reduced to fuch 

 weaknefs that me could not fit up in a chair, and ref ufmg to be 

 tapped, her death was daily expected ; when a perfon of great 

 medical experience accidentally hearing of her cafe, out of mere 

 humanity recommended the ufe of this fimple remedy, whereby 



Hift. i. p. 437. Smyrnium. Tourn. Tnft. p. 316. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 208. Smyrnium majus. 

 Mar. Unib. ii. Hift. Oxen. iii. p. 277. Hippofelinum & Smyrnium, Offic. Dal. Pharm. 

 p. 123. Smyrnium foliis caulinis ternatis, petiolatis, ferratis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 105. 

 Sp. PI. 262. 



(x) Apium paluftre. Cam. Epit. p. 527. uptime. Eleofelinum. Dad. Pempt. p. 695. 

 Apium paluftre & Apium officinarum. C. B. Pin. p. 154. Raj. Hift. i. p 447. Syn. iii. 

 p. 214. Tourn. Inft. p. 305. Hift Oxon. iii. p. 293. Boerh. InJ. A. p. 58. Ritf'p. Flo. Jen. 

 p. 229. Apium & Eleofilinum, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 126. Apium foliis caulinis cunei- 

 formibus. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 107. Sp. PI. 264. Rcycn. p. 115. ///'//. Nat. Hift. PI. 

 p. 349. Apium foliis femitrifidis, ora loborum circumferrata. Hall. Helv. p. 427. 



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