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United States as a diuretic, expectorant, antidyspeptic, and even 

 antiepileptic. In Kamtschatka choice alcoholic liquors are made 

 from the stems of H. Panaces} H. gummiferum,^ a Caucasian spe- 

 cies, was thought at one time to furnish the gum ammoniac. Many 

 other species of Heracleum have been employed either as alimentary 

 or aromatic* 



The plants of Meum are almost all stimulant, slightly tonic, 

 digestive. M. athamanticum * (fig. 100, 101), or Alpine Fennel, was 

 formerly used in theriacal composition. The fruit was considered 

 febrifuge, emmenagogic, diuretic, carminative, expectorant. It has 

 been extolled as a remedy for flux, asthma, chronic bronchitis, 

 typhoid fever.' M, Silaus * is diuretic ; its root, fruit and juice were 

 used. M. scoticum '' is used in Kamtschatka to prepare fish. if. 

 diffusum ^ has an aromatic fruit employed in India in the treatment 

 of diseased cattle. If. venosum ° is reported a medicinal plant in 

 Siberia. JIf. nodiflorum,^" a plant of Dauphine and the north of 

 Italy, believed to be the Ligusticum of the ancients, is carminative 

 and emmenagogic ; it is sometimes substituted for Angelica. JIf. 

 resinomm " in Italy yields from its incised root, abundance of a 



1 L. Spec. 358.— DC. Prodr. n. 15.— Eosenth. 

 op. cit. 549. 



2 "W. Snum. 312 ; Sort. Bcrol. i. t. 53, 54. 



' Particularly S. angustifolium L. tuberosum 

 MoL. longifolium Jaoq. Jlavescens Baumg. (Ro- 

 SBNTH. op. cit, 549). 



* Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 303.— DO. Prodr. iv. 162, 

 n. 1. — Gken. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 701. — 

 Eosenth. op. cit. 539. — Athamantha Meum L. 

 Spec. 353. — Seseli Meum Scop. Fl. Carn. u.. 352. 

 Ligusticum Meum All. Fl. Ped. ii. 12. — DC. Fl. 

 Fr. iv. 310. 



° M. MutelUna GiERTN. (P/iellandrium Mutel- 

 Una L. — Ligusticum Mutellina All. — ^thusa 

 Matellina Lamk.) in our opinion generioally 

 inseparable from the preceding, forms part of 

 the roots of Meum found in commerce. The 

 young shoots serve as vegetables in the. 

 Alps. 



" Peucedanum Silaus L. Spec. 354. — jAca. 

 Fl. Atistr. t. 16. — Hayn. Arzn. Oeio. vii. t. 5. — 

 8ium Silaus Eoth. — Cnidium Silaus Spiienq. — 

 Ligusticum Silaus Duby. — Seseli pratensis Eiy. 

 — S. selliwides Jacq. — Silaus pralensis Bess, 



Sck. Syst. vi. 36, not. — Koch, Umb. 105.— DO. 

 Prodr. iv. 161. — Eosenth. op. cit. 539. 



ticum scoticum L. Spec. 359. — DO. 



Prodr. iv. 137, n. 1. — Angelica scotica Lamk. — 

 Seseli scoticum Riv. — Apimn ternatum W. 



* Ligusticum diffusum Eoxb. Cat. Sort. Calc. 

 21. — Athamantha diffusa "Wall. — Cnidium dif- 

 fusum DC. Prodr. iv. 153, n. 7. 



' Seseli venosum Hoppm. Fl. Germ. 144. — S. 

 selinoides Bess. — S. alpinum Bieb. — Cnidium 

 venosi/m Koch, Umb- 109.' — DC. Prodr. u.. 4. — 

 Selinum pratense Spreng. 



'" Smymium nodifiorum All. Fl. Pedem. ii. 23, 

 t. 2. — Ligusticum nodifiorum Vill. — Angelica 

 panioulata Lamk. — Laserpitium verticillatum 

 Waldst. et Kit. — Trochiscanthes nodiflorus 

 Koch, Umb. 103.— DC. Prodr. iv. 154.— Eo- 

 senth. op. cit. 538. 



" H. Bn. Bull. Sac. Lhin. Par. W6.— Laser- 

 pitium resinosum Presl. Fl. Sic. 136. — Ligusti- 

 cum resinosum Guss. Lnd. Sem. (1826) ; Prodr. 

 Fl. Sic. i. 335. — Bonannia resinifera Guss. Fl, 

 Sic. Syn. i. 335. — Ligusticum Grcecum Apii folio 

 T. Inst. Cor. 23. 



