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NATUBAL SISTORY OF PLANTS. 



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

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

 Sagapenuni ' has been attributed, without sufficient reason, to P. 

 persicum ^ and to P. Szowitzianum ; ° 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. Opopanax,^ another 

 odoroas 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 

 [Euryangium) 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, 

 KassniK). 



^ Ferula ruiricatilis Boiss. Diagn. Or. sef. 2, 

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

 (part). 



^ Ferula Shair BoKSCZ. Pharm. Ferul. t. 6-8. 

 — H. Bn. Diet. Fiieycl. Sc. Med. ser. 4, i. 737 

 (Schair of the natifes). 



^ Or Serapinum. GniB. loe. (At. 244. — Fltjok. 

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

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



* Ferula persica W. Spec. i. 1413. — DC. Prodr. 

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

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

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

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



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

 Fl. Or. ii. 994. 



8 GuiB. op. cit. 244. — Fltjck. et Hanb. Phar- 

 macogr. 288. 



? Dorema Ammoniacum Don, Trans. Linn. Soc, 

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

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

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

 26 e. — Diserneston gummiferum Jatjb. 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. 

 {Zuhj Billesur, TTschelc). 



^ GuiE. loo. cit. 260. — Fluck. et Hanb. Phar- 

 macogr. 291. 



'» Koch, Vmb. 96.— Nees, Off. Ffl. 17, t. 11. 

 — no: Prodr. iv. 171.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de 

 Fr. i. 698. 



" M. Opopanax. — Pastinaca Opopanax L. 

 Spec. 376.— SiBTH. Fl. Grcec. t. 288.— Ferula 



Opopanax Or. Fl. Austr. 53 JBpreng. TImb. 



77. 



'2 Ferula Mooshe Lindl. ex Eosekth. op. cit, 

 543. 



" Fluok. et Hanb. Pharmacogr. 278. 



!■* Furyanginm Sumbul KAtrppM. Nouv. Mem. 

 Soc. Nat. Mosc. xii. (1871) t. 24, 25.— Ferula 

 Sumbul Hook. p. Sot. Mag. t. 6196. — H. Bn. 

 Diet. E/icgcl. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, i. 734. 



'* Ferula commu?iis L. Spec. 355 (part). — H. 

 Bn. Diet. Eiicycl. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, i. 736.-2?. 

 nodijlora Sieth. et Sm. Fl. Grac. iii. 72, t. 279. 

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

 L. — Gben. et GoDK. Fl. de Fr. i. 69. 



