192 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



milky and aromatic juice.' Seseli has the same property and its 

 dried juice resembles opopanax. Especially is this the case with S, 

 gummiferum^ (fig. 115, 116), in Tauris. S. tortuosum^ has an aro- 

 matic, bitter, digestive, stomachic fruit, sometimes still employed as 

 a carminative in rural districts. S. Hippomaratlirum * has the same 

 properties, and S. Lihanotis ^ is employed in Switzerland as an aro- 

 matic and vulnerary plant. S. macedonicum,^ a Mediterranean species, 

 is vulnerary and its fruit diuretic and carminative. In the south its 

 leaves are placed with clothes to protect them from the attacks of 

 insects. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as vegetables. 

 Athamanthi MatthioU^ (fig. 117) has also an edible root and serves 

 the same purposes as Meum athamanthicum. A, cretensis^ has diu- 

 retic, diaphoretic and stimulant fruit. ^ A, sicula^^ and cervaricefolia,^^ 

 ^ypes of the genus Tinguarra with some authors, have fruit with 

 precisely the same properties. The root is said to be eaten like 

 celery. Gachrys is little employed, though possessing similar virtues. 

 C. secula ^^ is aromatic and emmenagogic. G. cretica ^^ has diuretic, 

 carminative, tonic fruit; its root is aromatic. G. odontalgica,^^ from 

 northern Asia, derives its name from the use to which its root is 

 applied. G. Lihanotis,^^ from the Mediterranean region, is astringent 

 and tonic. G. ferulacea,^^ an oriental species, has an aromatic bitter 



1 Thospmm harbinode Nutt. and atropurpure- op. cH. 538. 



«wi NoTT., which, we refer to this same genus, ' Loureiro {Fl. Cochinch. [ed. 1790] 178) 



are reputed vulnerary and antisyphilitic in the cites an A . chinensis (?) which he says is diure- 



United States. tic, deobstruant, emmenagogic, resolutive and 



2 Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 120. — DC. Prodr. iv. very efficacious in uterine affections. 



145, n. 4. — JBubon rigidus a^T-K&^G. *" L. -S/;^c. 352.— DC. Frodr. n. 6. — Bubon 



3 L. Spec. 373.— DC. Fl. Fr. iv. 285; Prodr. gargankum Tex. Fl. Nap.i. 123. 



n. 21.— Gren. et Godr. F,. de Fr. i. 707. — Slum ^^ DC. Prodr. n. 1. — Seseli cervartcefolium DC. 



tortuosum Eoth, Fl. Germ. i. 128. Cat, Eort. Monsp. 145. 



^Ij. Spec. ZIZ.—S ACQ.. Fl.Austr.i.l^Z.— DO. ^^ Sujth. Fl. Grace, t. 278.— ^ ecJiinophora 



Frodr. n. \.—Sium Hippomarathrum Eoth. — Guss. — C. cristata DC. Prodr. iv. 238. — Hippo- 



Seseli articulatum Crantz. marathrum cristatum Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 932. 



5 Koch, Umb. 111.— Gren. et Godr. Fl.de ^^ IjAu^. Diet. i. 259. — Lecokia cretica DC. 



J'r. i. 710. — Libanotis daucoides ^cov. — L. mon^ Mem. 67; Frodr. iv. 240. — Scandix latifolia 



tana All.— L. vulgaris DC. Prodr. iv. 150, n. 3. Sibth. Fl. Gr<BC. t. 284. 



—Athamantha Oreoselinum HvDa. '^Pall. ex DC. Prodr. iv. 236, n. 2.— C. 



* B. H. Gen. 901. — Baucus macedonicus Riv. callosperma Pall. Voy. iii. 663 (ex DC). 



— Apium macedonicum Mon.— Bubon macedoni^ *^ L. Sjyec. 355. — DC. Prodr. n. 5. — Hippoma- 



cum L. Spec. 364. — Athamantha macedonica rathrum Libanotis Koch (ex DC). 



Spreng. Sch. Sgst. vi. 491.— DC. Prodr. iv. 155, ^^ Quss. Prodr. Fl. Sic. i. 358 (not L.).—C. 



n. 2. — RoSENTH. op. cit. 538. alata Hoffm. — Laserpitinm ferulaceum L. Spec. 



' WuLF. Jacg. Coll. i. 211 ; Ic. Bar. i. t. 57. — 358. — Prangos ferulacea Lindl, Journ. Sc. Loud. 



DC. Prodr. n. 5.— Seseli Turbith L. Amoen. iv. (1825) 7.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 937.— P. fauicula- 



310. cea C A. Mey. Enum. 131.— P. stenoptera Boiss. 



^ L. Spec. 352. — DC. Prodr. n. 4. — ^Eosenth. et Buhse, Aufz. 104. 



