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The BRERISBLB ERB ATL: 
not fo narrow as in the former kind, though of 
“no great breadth. 
The flowers are finall and yellow ; but they 
form very large umbells. 
The feeds are brown. 
_It is frequent in the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ferulago latiore folio. 
3. The Affa Foetida Plant. 
Ferula affam fatidam fundens. 
The root is vaftly thick, and of a great length. 
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NiatU: as 
The ftalk rifes to feven feet high ; and is firm, 
ftriated, and of a pale green. 
The leaves are very large ; but they are divi- 
ded into a multitude of fmaller parts, alternately 
ferrated, and of a pale green. 
The flowers grow in vaft umbells. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
It is a native of the mountains of Perfia. 
Kempfer calls it Aja fetida Difgunenfis. 
The drug called affa fatida, fo eminent in ner- 
vous and hyfterick cafes, is the concreted juice of 
the root of this plant. 
VI. 
LASERWORT. 
PsA aSac bh RP ei eds gives 
THE flowers ftand in great umbells, terminating the branches ; and each is compofed of five pe- 
tals: thefe are nearly equal in fize; and they are oblong, divided at the ends, and fomewhat 
bent. The cup is very minute, and is divided into five parts at the edge. The feeds are very large, 
oblong, and marked with four membranes on the back. 
Linneus places this with the reft among the peatandria monogynia. 
Laferwort. 
Laferpitium vulgare. 
The root is long and thick, brown on the out- 
fide, white within, and furnifhed with many 
fibres. The top is alfo covered with decayed 
filaments, which have belonged to footftalks. 
The leaves are large and pinnated: they are 
compofed each of two or three pairs of broad, 
indented pinne; and are of a pale green, and 
lightly hairy. 
Gis BaewoNinn (WU: 2S 
The ftalks are numerous, branched, and 
ftriated, of a pale green, and four feet high. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root; but they are fmaller. 
The flowers terminate the branches; and are 
fmall, but placed in large umbells. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in July. 
C.Bauhine calls it Laferpitinm Gallicum. Others 
only, Laferpitium, or Laferpitium vulgare. 
VII. 
CUMMIN. 
C2 MeL Nee, 
HE flowers are difpofed in umbells, ufually in a four-fold manner, both in the divifions and fub- 
divifions ; and at the bafe of the ftalks, and of their fubdivifions, are placed feveral narrow 
leaves. Each flower is compofed of five petals, a little irregular in fize, and fomewhat bent in, and 
emarginated. The cup is fcarce vifible. The feeds are two: they are convex on one fide, and 
ftriated, plain, and fmooth on the other. 
Linnzeus places it among the pentandria monogynia with the others, 
Common Cummin. 
Cyminum vulgare. 
The root is long, flender, and hung with many 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are divided into numerous, 
long, and very narrow fegments; and are of a 
faint green, and a little hairy. 
The ftalk is round, ftriated, upright, and about 
afoot high. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the reft, 
and ftand irregularly. 
The flowers are {mall and white ; and they ter- 
minate the ftalk in moderately large umbells. 
The feeds are large and brown, 
It is a native of the Eaft, and is alfo fown there 
for the feeds, which are ufed in medicine. It 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cyminum Jemine longiore. 
Others, Cyminum vulgare. 
The feeds are an excellent carminative, but 
very unpleafant. ; 
GENUS 
