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THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY. 
shape, called vittce which are usually filled with an oily or 
resinous matter in the coriander, having the smell of a crushed 
bug, but in the dried seed being so highly aromatic as to 
cause it to be used as a sweetmeat. The caraway, dill, 
anise, fennel, are all used for the distillation of this essential 
oil, and are much used as stimulants in different kinds of 
liniments, or employed internally as stimulants, carminatives, 
or aromatics. 
Pereira gives the following list of the medicinal plants of 
the order, to which we have added some remarks: 
1. Umbelliferous carminative plants used in medicine. 
Name. 
Remarks. 
Caraway 
Anise, 
Fennel. 
Angelica, 
Dill. 
Cumin 
Carrot, coriander 
Foenugreek. 
, Much employed as a spice. 
J-Commonly used by the cow leech. 
Especially dill, used for wind in chil * 
j dren. 
. Always put up in horse powders. 
f Used both as specifics and as a stimulant 
[_ and carminative. 
J This is an error, as the plant is one of 
C the Leguminosse. 
2. Umbelliferous roots used in medicine. 
Angelica carrot . . Mostly boiled or scraped for poultices. 
3. Umbelliferous fetid gum resms. 
Assafoetida, 
Segapenum, 
Galbanum, 
Ammoniacum. 
Employed in the shape of pills or tine* 
>■ tures in various ailments, formerly 
more than at present. 
4. Narcotic Umbelliferae. 
Hemlock, conium* Much employed in medicine. 
Besides these, many are employed in rustic medicine ; but, 
as a rule, we look upon it that the order is much too active 
to render it safe for ignorant people to play with, though 
it must be confessed that hemlock, gout-weed, and the 
like, are usually employed by old women in the shape of 
poultices for gout. 
The aromatic seeds belonging to this order are much used 
by the cow leech, and the carter in combining his “ drinks” 
—drenches for cows and horses; but the stuff sold by the 
* See Pareira’s ‘ Materia Medica,’ vol. ii, part 2. 
