CORIANDRUM SATIVUM. 
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of it in two pints of milk and straining, form very grateful refrige- 
rant beverages in febrile diseases, and may be advantageously 
used.* The dose of the simple fruit required to act as a cathartic 
is so large (from $i. to jii.) that it is seldom given alone for this 
purpose, but is generally combined with manna, senna, or with some 
neutral salt that has not potass for its base ; these latter being 
decomposed by it. It forms an agreeable addition to infusion of 
senna, but the purgative power of the latter is weakened by it. 
Off. The Pulp or Preserved Fruit. 
Off. Pp. Infusum Sennae Comp. D. E. 
COHIANDRUM SATIVUM. 
Common Coriander. •\ 
Class Pentandria. — Order Digynia. 
Nat, Ord. UMBELLATiE. Linn. Juss, 
Gen. Char. Corolla radiate. Petals inflex-emariginate. 
Involucre universal, one-leafed ; the partial ones halved. 
Fruit spherical. 
Spec. Char. Fruit globular, obscHrely ribbed, and divisible 
into two hemispherical seeds. 
This species X of coriander is the Kop/avvov of Dioscorides ; it is a 
native of the south of Europe, where in some places it is said to 
grow in such abundance, as frequently to choke the growth of wheat 
and other grain. From its extensive cultivation for medicinal pur- 
poses, it has become naturalized to this country, and is now found 
* Thomson's Mat. Med. 
+ Fig. a. represents a flower magnified, b. The pistillam and calyx. 
i The genus Coriandram comprises but few species, two only being known and cnlti- 
vated in our botanic gardens ; viz. the one under consideration, and the Testiculatum, 
a native of the south of Europe. — Ed. 
