I. VEGETABLES.— Umbellifer.e. 81 



Candied angelica, caules angeliccp cojidifi. The fresh stalks 



are boiled in water to take away the bitterness, and some of the 



strong scent, then put into syrup boiled to a candy height till 



uite dry, taken out and dried ; cordial, aphrodisiac. 



American angelica, Angelica^ P.U.S., J. atropurpureum ; — 



Wild angelica, A. sylvestris. The same, but weaker. 



*LovAGE, Levisticum^ Lignsticum levistician. Root, leaves, and 

 ecds aromatic, stomachic, and diaphoretic; stem yields English 

 {X)panax. 



Great buoad-leaved hemlock, Seseli Pelopoimense, Ligusti- 

 nn Peloponnesiacum, Root and seeds used in nervous diseases. 

 *CoHNisH LOVAGE, Ligusticum oquilegifolium, L. Comubiense. 

 Hoot exudes a resin. 



Hart wort, Seseli, Siler montamun, Laserpitium slier, — />. 

 'itifoliitm ; — L, angicsti folium ; — Z. chironium. Roots used in 

 rofula, spitting of blood, and piles. 



•Cow PARSNEP, Sphondylium, Heracleum sphondylium. Root 

 id leaves emollient; seeds a specific in hysteric spasms; juice 

 : the head renders the hair curly ; young shoots substituted for 

 paragus : exudes sugar. 



Master wort, Heracleum lanatum. Root, heracleum, P.U.S. 

 iiiollient. — Heracleum paiiax, and some other species, are added 

 to fermented liquors, and distilled by the northern nations, 



Heracleum gummiferum. Yields gum ammoniac. 

 Fennel giant, Ferula, F, communis. Seeds carminative ; 

 reen pith of the stem used in spitting of blood. 



^•ALL fennel giant. Ferula, F. galhanifera, F, Feimlago, 

 found in galbanum produced this plant. 



Ferula assaf(etida. Old roots yield assafoetida, young roots 

 ^-'"d and eaten ; leaves eaten as greens. Some seeds found in 

 tnum produced an unknown fecula. 



Ferula Persic a. Also said to yield gum ammoniac. 



•Hogs Fennel, Sulphur wort, Hore strange, Peucedanum, P. 

 ^finnale. Root very diuretic, attenuant, expectorant, aperitive ; 

 wounded it exudes a gum resin. 



•Meadow saxifrage, Saxifraga vulgaris, Peucedanum silaus. 

 I((K)t aperitive, used in calculous cases. 



' vs LIHANOTYS. Root Very heating and detersive ; used 



in piles. — C. odnntalgica. Used in tocjthach. 



•Samphire, Crithmum, Fceniadum maritimum, Herha Sancti 

 Crithmum mnritimum. Excites the appetite. — Pickled sani'- 

 Used for sauce. 



Mountain parsley, Petrosrlinum montanum, Athanianta oreo- 



