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juice ; it has the properties of Camomile and is used in the treatment 

 of pulmonary and intestinal affections. 0. pahularia,^ of temperate 

 Asia, has been reputed to produce asafoetida ; it was a Lihanotis of 

 the ancients, used as a condiment and aliment, and employed in the 

 treatment of uterine affections. The Carrots are alimentary and 

 medicinal plants. Daucus Carota^ (fig. 62-67) is considered the stock 

 of our cultivated carrot whose fleshy taproot, of variable colour, 

 supplies a food to man and beast. Its pulp has been reputed emol- 

 lient, maturative. It is sometimes used to colour butter. The 

 ancients considered it aperitive, and, perhaps on account of its colour, 

 a remedy for jaundice. The fruit is aromatic, but little used. The 

 flowers are employed in dyeing various colours and formerly a liquor 

 was made from them called oil of Venus. Of D. maritimus only the 

 young shoots are edible. D. grandiflorus^ is aromatic and diuretic. 

 B.guttatus^ was a medicinal plant with the Greeks. D.gummifer^ 

 produces a gum-resin substituted for Bdellium and Opopanax. D. 

 lati folia ^ has edible shoots, also I). Royeni (fig. 69),^ considered 

 diuretic in some districts. In central America, Arracacia is celebrated 

 for an edible root, chiefly that of A. xanthorhiza,^ eaten in Columbia, 

 boiled like our potato ; from it is extracted an analeptic starch re- 

 sembling arrowroot ; a fermented liquor is likewise made from it, said 

 to be stomachic. A. moschata has the same uses in Mexico. Tor- 

 dijlium^^ officinale and apidum^^ have edible shoots; the fruit was 

 reputed salutary in stone and renal maladies. In the north of Persia, 



1 LiNDL. Journ. Sc. Lond, (1825) n. 37, 7-— XTmb. 59.— DC. Prodr. iv. 218.— GREx.et Godr. 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 239, n. 1. Fl. de Fr. i. 673 (Gratteau). 



2 L. Spec. 348. — DC. Prodr. iv. 211, n. 9. — 7 Comum Royeni li. Spec. ^iO.—Caucalis dau- 

 Gren. et GoDR. Fl. de Fr. i. 665. — Mer. et Del. coides L. Mardiss. 351.— DC. Prodr. iv. 216, n. 1. 

 Diet. Mat. Med. ii. 599.— Nees et Eberm. PL —C. leptophylla Lamk. (not L.)- 



Med. t. 287.— Hayn. Arzn. Gew. vii. t. 3.— * Bancr. Gart. I) ir. 3S2 ; Rort. Soc. Jam. e:x. 



LixDL. Fl. Med. 53. — Guib. loc. cit. 205. — Caz. Liidkbh (1829) Litt. 13. — A.esculenta DC. Prodr. 



PL Med. Indig. (ed. 3) 252. — B. vulgaris Neck. iv. 244, n. 1. — Mer. et Del. Diet. Mat. Med. i. 



— Caucalis Carota Crantz. 376.— H. Bn. Diet. Fncycl. Sc. Mid. v. 772. — 



3 Scop. Fl, Carniol. i. 189. — Caucalis grandi- Coniuin Arracacha Hook. Fxot. FL t. 152; Bot, 

 flora L. Spec. 346.— Lamk. IU. t. 192, fig. 1.— Mag. t. 3092. 



Orlaya grandijiora Hoffm. TJmh. i. 58. — DC. ^ HG. Prodr. n.1. — Conium moschatumV. ^.')S.. 



Prodr. iv. 209, n. 1. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 14, t. 420 {Sacharachaca., in 



■* SiBTH. ex RosENTH. op. cit. 553. the province of los Pastes). 



* Lamk. Diet. i. 634.— GrexV. et Godr. FL de ^o L. Sfcc. 345.— DC. Prodr. iv. 198, n. 4.— 



Fr. i. 668. — D. maritimus Wieh. (not Lamk.). ? T. microcarpum Ten. — Condylocarpas officinalis 



^ Tordyiium latifolium L. Spec. 545. — Caucalis Koch. 



Iftt'efolia Reichr'. — Turgeuia latlfolla Hoffm. ^* Riv. Pent. t. 2. — DC. Prodr. n. 5. 



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