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Root, or yellowifh, and green or purplifh near the 
Top ; having an hot, fubacrid, bitterilh, and plea- 
fant aromatick Tafte, like pennyroyal, but much 
Wronger, and a very fragrant Smell, between Pen- 
ny-royal and Rofes. Many Blades of it fpring up 
from one Root* 
Some Writers on the Materia Medica difpute 
whether our Scoenanth be the fame with the 
Juntas odoratus of the Ancients *, but this Matlhio - 
hts and the two Bauhines have clearly demonftrated. 
Dio fior ides and Galen called it vy/im or J uncus 
limply, by Way of Eminence. Celjus , lib. iii. c. 2 1. 
mentions it by the Name of J uncus rotundus or the 
round Rufh, to diftinguifh it from the J uncus qua - 
drains or fquare Rufh, which the Greeks called Cy- 
ferus . It was anciently named among the Greeks 
eyym* (viz.) Junci flos, which Galen, in his 
Notes upon the Theriaca , admires at, becaufe no 
Flowers were then brought with it. Whence he 
concludes, that the old Greeks , by this Appellation, 
meant the Plant itfelf and not its Flower. They 
might fo term it, perhaps, on Account of its Ex- 
cellency above other Rufhes ; for the Word 
denotes not only a Flower, but, as Salmqfius ob- 
serves, fomething excellent. Neverthelefs, it is fur- 
prizing that Galen fhould aflert he never law the 
Flowers of this Plant, or that in his Time none 
were brought with it ♦, when Diofcorides , among the 
Marks whereby he directs the Choice of it, re- 
quires that it fhould have Flowers *, and at prefent 
the Blades frequently come to us with Flowers up- 
on them. 
The Plant is called Schoenanthos five juncus odo- 
ratus , J. B. T. 2. 515. Juncus rotundus aromaticus , 
<» C. B. Ph. Botan. 163. Gramen Daftylon aromaticum 
multiplici paniculd , Spicis brevibus t omenta candic anti- 
ins ex eodem pediculo bints, Pluk . photograph. T. 191. 
