UMBELLIFERJE. 193 



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

 of pulmonary and intestinal affections. G. pabularia,^ of temperate 

 Asia, has been reputed to produce asafoetida ; it was a Libanotis 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 fleehy taproot, of variable colour, 

 supphes 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. 

 D. guttatus * was a medicinal plant with the Greeks. D. gummifer ' 

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

 latifolia^ has edible shoots, also D. 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 Hkewise made from it, said 

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

 dyliuni^' officinale and apulum^^ have edible shoots ; the fruit was 

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



> Lnroi. Journ. Sc. Land. (1825) n. 37, 7.— Umi. 59.— DO. Prodr. iv. 218.— Gren. et Godk. 



DO. Prodr. iv. 239, n. 1. Fl. de Fr. i. 673 {Gratteau). 



* L. Spec. 348. — DC. Prodr. iv. 211, n. 9. — ' Gonium S.oyeni'U. Spec. 3iO.—Cauealis dau- 



GaEN. et GoDU. Fl. de Fr. i. 665. — Mek. et Dei. eoides L. Mantisa. 351. — DC. Prodr. iv. 216, n. 1. 



Diet. Mat. Med. ii. 699. — Nees et Ebekm. PI. — C. teptophylla Lamk. (not L.). 



Med. t. 287. — Hayn. Arzn. Gew. yii. t. 3. — • Bance. Gart. Dir. 382 ; Sort. Sac. Jam. ex 



LiNi>L. Fl. Med. 53. — Guib. loe, cit. 205. — Oaz. Zinnaa (1829) Litt. 13. — A. esculenta DO. Prodr. 



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



— Cauealis Carota Crantz. 376.— H. Bn. Diet. Encycl. So. Mid. v. 772. — 



^ Scop. Fl. Carniol. i. 189. — Cauealis grandi- Coniwn Jrracaeha Hook, Exot. Fl. t. 152; Bot. 



fiora L. Spec. 346.— Lamk. Ill, t. 192, fig. 1.— Mag. t. 3092. 



Orlaya grandiflora Hoppm. Umb. i. 68. — DC. ' DC Pirorf*-. n. 2. — Coniummosehatwm'B.'Q.'K. 



Prodr. iv. 209, n. 1. Nov. Gen. et Bpec. v. 14, t. 420 [Sacharaohaca, in 



■• SiBTH. ex EosBNTH. op. cit. 553. the province of Iob Pastes). 



» Lamk. Diet. i. 634.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de "> L. Spee. 345.— DO. Prod)-, iv. 198, n. 4.— 



Fr, i. 668. — D. maritimus Wieh. (not Lamk.). f T. mierocarpum Ten. — Condylocarpus officinalis 



° Tordyliiim latifolium L. Spec. 545. — Cauealis Koch. 



latifolia Beichb. — Turgenia latifolia Hoppm. " Biv. Pent. t. 2. — DC. Prodr. n. 5. 



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