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Paflagcs, and in opening Obftrudions : He quotes the 
Authority of Diofeorides for giving the powder'd 
Roots in Wine to cure the Dyftiry, and to help 
afthmatic Complaints. What the Oenanthe of ‘Diof- 
eorides was (2), nobody has determined. He deferibes 
it, as having Leaves like Parfneps, white Flowers, a 
thick Stalk about a Span high, Seeds like thofe of 
Arrach, a large Root divided into fevetal round 
Heads, and that it grows in rocky Places. A (hort 
Account of the Oenanthe , together with its Ufes in 
Medicine, is taken from Diofeorides by ‘Pliny (3) the 
Naturalift. What the Plant was that Diofeorides 
here recommends, is uncertain : None of the Species 
we are acquainted with come near this Description ; 
all thofe, that we know, much exceed his Meafure 5 
none of them have Leaves like Parfneps, and all grow 
in watry Places. Ruellius (4), Fuchfius (5), Tragusif), 
PDodonreus (y)> and Matthiolus (8), have given us 
the Filipendula or Dropworty for the Oenanthe of 
Diofeorides : But this cannot be that Plant, be- 
caufe its Seeds are not like thofe of Arrach 5 neither 
has it a large Root divided into many Heads. 
Parkinfon (9), no great Favourer of Label, fays, that 
“ Lobel only brandeth his Oenanthe Cicutre facie to 
<c be virulent and venomous, from the Relations of 
“ the 
( 2 ) ’O iva.vd-i) Tcfc [A v tpJAAst TAQV \lV0S, AV$H cTg A5t Did. 
Kdi K&'jhov rrAyyv c^iQctfjuouor ka^ttov at / or pi^AV 
[JS.yAhYW KiVAhAS S%JiS<7AV 'TAH 0VA$ oyfu \Ar <Q\)(\cU iV 7r'{j^.ir 
Diofcorid. lib. iii. cap. 135. (3) P //«/7 Nat. Hift. lib. xxi. cap.24. 
(4) Pag. 265. (5) Fuchfti Hift. 563. (6) Frag, p.883. 
( 7 ) Dodon, Pempt. 56. (8) Pag, 627. (9) Park, Theat. 
895. 
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