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MARJORAM (Origanum Marjorana, L.) ; and SAVORY 

 (Satureja, L.). 



DlLL (Anethum graveolens, L.) and CUMIN (Cumi- 

 num Cyminum, L.) are Umbelliferae with aromatic 

 fruits, used in cordials. The latter is also employed 

 in curry-powder and as a flavouring to Dutch cheese. 



ANISE, the fruits of the Umbelliferous Pimpinella- 

 Anisum, L., long cultivated on, and imported from, 

 the Continent, yields an oil consisting of Anethol or 

 Anise-camphor, C 10 H 12 O, and variable proportions of 

 an isomer of oil of turpentine. This substance is 

 practically identical with that obtained from FENNEL, 

 TARRAGON or STAR- ANISE. The latter (Illidum 

 anisatum, Loureiro) has been largely substituted for 

 anise in flavouring Dutch Aniseed and Anisette de 

 Bordeaux. In Singapore, /. Griffitkii and /. majus, 

 Hook. fiL and Thorn., are used. /. religiosum, Sieb. 

 and Zucc., of Japan, a similar plant, is poisonous. 

 /. floridanum, Ellis, and /. parviflorum, Michx., are 

 used in the United States.* 



GINGER, though, in Jamaica and India, the produce 

 of Zingiber officinale, Roscoe, has been recently shown 

 to be in Siam, and perhaps in China, the rhizome of 

 some species of Alpinia.^ 



(3) Flavourers. 



It is, as Prof. Church points out (op. /.), impossible 

 to draw any very distinct line between condiments 

 and spices ; but we may, perhaps, include the latter 

 (which are mostly dried seeds or bark, and are eaten 



* ' Pharmacographia ;' Spon's ' Encyclop. of Industrial Arts.' 

 f ' Pharm. Journ.,' xviii (1886). 



