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in our crops, has been accounted a cure for flux, amenorrhcea, wounds 

 and vesicular aifections. It is probably not much more active than 

 Smyrnium, to which the ancients attributed so many virtues. S. 

 Olusatrum ' (fig. 142-144) has edible shoots, and supplies fodder for 

 animals. Its fruit is accounted antiscorbutic. 8. perfoliatum ^ was 

 reputed aromatic and stimulant, as also 8. rotundifolium.^ Molopo- 

 speimum cicutarium * (fig. 141) is said to be narcotic, and capable of 

 producing serious accidents, gangrene, &c. 



Apiwn consists also of aromatic plants. The most common is the 

 Celery, believed to be a cultivated form of A. graveolens^ (fig. 125), 

 whilst the wild plant is the Ache, the root of which is employed in 

 medicine, and whose fruit is aperitive, stimulant, carminative. The 

 Celery is very odorous, exciting, antiscorbutic." A. nodiflorum,'' a 

 species common in our ditches, is considered poisonous, probably in 

 error, since it is eaten on the banks of the Ehine as watercress. It 

 is diuretic, and said to be efficacious in chronic cutaneous affections ; 

 its root is the Water-parsnip of some provinces. A. leptophyllum,^ a 

 species common in America, has aromatic, carminative fruit, now 

 little used.^ The Skirret has analagous properties much like those 

 of Carum Sisarum. The types of the genus are Sium latifolium '" and 

 angustifolium}^ They are said to have a poisonous root. The leaves 



' L. Spec. 376. — Lamk. III. t. 204.— DC. 1 Sium nodifio;um L. Spec. 361. — Sison mill- 



Piodr. iv. 247, n. 1. — Rosenth. op. cit. S57. — florum Bkot. Fl. Lusit. i. 423. — Seseli nodiflo- 



S. Math. 77S T. Inst. 316. rum Scop. — Helosciadium nodiflorum Koch, 



2 Mill. Diet. n. 3. — L. Spec. 376. — DC. f/m*. 125.— Rosesth. op. «<. 529. 



Frodr. n. 2. — S. Dioscoridis Spkeng. Umb. 25. ' Pimpinella leptophylla Pees. Syn. i. 324. — 



'Mill. Diet. u. 2. — DC. Frodr. n. 3. — S. — F. lateriflora Link. — P. domingensis "W. — 



Dodancei Spreng. — S. ramosum d'TJkv. — S. Helosciadium laleitflorum Koch, Umb. 126. — S. 



(sgyptiaeum L. Aiiicen. iv. 270. (Its fruit was kptophyllum DC. M4m. Soc. Gen. iv. ; Prodr. iv. 



formerly designated under the n.aine of Semina 105, n. 6. 



_Smyrmi cretiei.) » The plant employed by the Indians of 



* DC. Frodr. iv. 230. — M. peloponesiacum Oregon and which Lindley named .ffeii)scic((?j«m 

 Koch. — Athamantha Golaka Hacq. (ex DC). — calif ornicum, is a Sium. 



J. Galatta Gr:iEL. — Zigusticum peloponesiacum h, '" L. Spec. 361. — Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 66. — 



Spec. 360. Hayn. Arzn. Gew. i. t. 38.— DC. Pre*-, iv. 124. 



' L. Spec. 379. — Hayn. Arzn. Gew. vii. t. 24. — Rosenth. op. cit. 634. — Coriandrum latifolium 



— ^DC. Frodr. iv. 101, n. 1. — GuiB. op. cit. iii.' Cr. Fl. Austr. 219. — Srepanophyllum palustre 



207, fig. 613. — Rosenth. op. cit. 528.— A. Hoffm. Umb. 110. 



Celleri G-hetn. Fruet. i. t. 22.— Stseli graveolens '' L. Spec. 1672.— Jacq. Fi. Austr. t. 67. — 



Scop. Fl. Gam. n. 360. — Siumapium Roth. Hayn. Arzn. Gew. i. t. 39. — DO. Prodr. n. 8. — 



* The same properties are said to be ob- S. erectum Huds. — Berula angustifolia Koch, 

 served, though in a less degree, in A. antarcti- Deudchl. Fl. ii. 455. 



cum SoLAND. probtratum, peregriimm, &c. 



