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and rubrkaule} P. Shair^ yields, between the Caspian and the 

 Aral, a gum-resinous juice analogous to the galhanum of commerce. 

 Sagapenum^ has been attributed, without sufficient reason, to P. 

 persicum ^ and to P. Szowitzianiim ; ^ it is difficult to obtain it pure 

 in commerce, and it is unknown from what plant this gum-resin, so 

 similar to gum-ammoniac,® is derived. The latter, used chiefly in 

 the preparation of adhesive plasters, but administered also internally 

 as an expectorant and tonic, comes from the section Dorema of 

 Peucedanum, particularly from P. Ammoniacum ^ (fig. 88). P. Aucheri ^ 

 yields a very good quality, rare in commerce. Opojxuiaxy^ another 

 odorous gum-resin, now rare and dear, has been attributed to a 

 European plant common in the region of the Mediterranean, 

 Opopanax Ghironium,'^^ which, with us, belongs to a section of the 

 genus Malahaila ; " but there is no documentary evidence of this 

 origin. Peucedanum Hooshe ^^ has also been said, but with no better 

 proof, to furnish Opopanax. Sumhul,^^ a foetid drug prescribed 

 against cholera and substituted for musk in the treatment of ataxic 

 and adynamic affections, is extracted, in Turkestan, from Peucedanum 

 {^Eurijangium) Sumhul}^ P. Ferula, '^^ a French species common in 



Sc. Med. ser. 4, i. 735. — F. erubescens Boiss. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, i. 316 (part) {Boridscheh, 

 Kassnih). 



1 Ferula ruhricauUs Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, 

 ii. 92 ; Fl. Or. ii. 995. — F. erubescens Boiss.' 

 (part). 



2 Ferula Shair Borscz. Pharm. Fcrul. t. 6-8. 

 — H. Bx. Bid. Fncycl. Sc. Med. ser. 4, i. 737 

 {Schair of the natives), 



3 Or Serapinum. GuiB. loc. cit. 244.— Fluck. 

 et Hanb. Pharmacogr. 291. — J. R. Diet. Encycl. 

 Sc. Med. ser. 3, vi. 108. 



* Ferula per sica W. Spec. i. 1413. — DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 173, n. 13.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 992.— i^. 

 Assa-foetida Mart, (not L.). — F. puberulaBozss. 

 et BuHSE, Aufz. 98. — Assa foetida Hope, Phil. 

 Trans. (1785) 36, t. 3, 4. 



* Ferula SzowUziana DC. Prodr. n. 19. — Boiss. 

 Fl. Or. ii. 994. 



6 GuiB. op. cit. 244. — Flijck. et Hanb. Phar- 

 macogr. 288. 



^ Dorema Ammoniacum Don, Trans. Linn. Sac, 

 xvi. 601.— Bge. Mem. Acad. Petersb. (1850) vii. 

 308.— BoRscz. Pharm. Ferul. t. 3-5.— Boiss. 

 Fl. Or. ii. 1008.— Berg et Schm. Off. Gew. t. 

 26 e. — Diserneston gummiferum Jaub. et Spach, 



III. PI. Or. i. 78, t. 40. — D. hirsutum Loft. 

 Borscz. Pharm. Ferul. 28 (ex Boiss.). 



8 Dorema Aucheri Boiss. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 3, i. 329 ; Fl. Or. ii. 1009.— i). robustum Loft. 

 i^Zuh, Billesur, Uschek) . 



^ GuiB. loc. cit. 250. — Fluck. et Hanb. Phar- 

 macogr. 291. 



10 Koch, Uinb. 96.— Nees, Off. Pfl. 17, t. 11. 

 —DC. Prodr. iv. 171.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de 

 Fr. i. 698. 



11 M. Opopanax. — Pastinaca Opopanax L. 

 Spec. 376.— SiBTH. Fl. GrcBC. t. 2?>%.— Ferula 

 Opopanax Cr. Fl. Austr. 53. — Spreng. Umb. 

 77. 



12 Ferula Hooshe Lindl. ex Hosenth. op. cit. 

 543. 



1^ Fluck. et Hanb. Pharmacogr. 278. 



!•* Furyangium Sumbul Kauffm. Nouv. Mem. 

 Soc. Nat. Mosc. xii. (1871) t. 24, 2b.— Ferula 

 Sumbul Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6196.— H. Bn. 

 Diet. Fncycl. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, i. 734. 



15 Ferula communis L. Spec. 355 (part).— H. 

 Bn. Diet. Fncycl. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, i. 736.— i?. 

 nodijlora Sibth. et Sm. Fl. Grcic. iii. 72, t. 279. 

 — F. nodijlora Vis. — F. glauca DC. — F. nodijlora 

 L.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 69. 



