| ANETHUM. 
of the box than those which answer to the other 
vessel. The bottoms of each cavity are inclined 
planes, to facilitate the motion of the sand into 
a drawer below, from which it is returned into 
the vessel for future observation. 
ANETHUM. See Drtt. 
ANEURISM. A tumour produced by the di- 
latation or rupture of anartery. An aneurism in 
the limb of an animal may be cured by exposing 
the artery, and tying it above and below the 
tumour. 
ANGELICA. A genus of herbaceous plants, 
of the umbelliferous tribe. The garden and 
the shining species are biennials ; and four 
|| other species known in Great Britain are peren- 
nials. The garden and the wild species, arch- 
|| angelica and sylvestris, are indigenous in Eng- 
land, the former in waste places, and the latter 
in moist woods. The garden species grows four 
| feet high, and the wild species six feet high ; the 
former is a cultivated plant, and the latter a 
weed; and both flower from June to August. 
The garden species was formerly much used in 
| a blanched condition asa celery; but, at present, 
it is cultivated principally for the candying of 
| its tender stalks to be used as a sweetmeat and 
| 
| a winter dessert. The whole plant is fragrant 
when bruised, and has the fame of being stimu- 
lating, anti-pestilential, and otherwise medicinal. 
Its seeds are cordial, tonic, and sudorific ; its dis- 
tilled leaves are said to be a remedy for diseases 
of the womb; its distilled water, in doses of three 
table-spoonfuls, dispels flatulence, and relieves 
flatulent pains; the pulverized root, in doses of 
a drachm, is said to be very useful in pestilential 
fevers and diseases of the liver; and a paste 
of its root and vinegar used to be carried and 
smelled at by physicians, during the prevalence 
of epidemics, as a preventive of infection. The 
Laplanders boil or bake the stalks, and eat them 
as a delicacy. 
 ANGELICA-TREE,—botanically Aralia Spi- 
nosa. A hardy, deciduous, ornamental shrub, of 
the aralia tribe. It is also called the prickly 
angelica, and the berry-bearing angelica. It is 
a native of Virginia, and was introduced to Great 
Britain in 1688. It usually grows to the height 
of eight feet; but, when soil and situation are 
very favourable, it attains the height of twelve 
feet. Its stem is of a dark brown colour, and is 
defended by sharp deciduous spines; its leaves 
resemble those of the garden angelica, have a 
pleasant green colour, consist of many wings, and, 
like the stems, are defended by strong, crooked 
spines ; and its flowers grow in large umbels from 
the end of the branches, have a greenish yellow 
colour, and make their appearance in the end of 
July or beginning of August. If the soil imme- 
diately around an angelica tree be dug to a suffi- 
cient depth, the broken roots of the plant will 
send up new stems or young plants; or even if the 
| broken roots be planted in a warm border, and 
| shaded in hot weather, they will grow. This 
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of smutted corn. 
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plant, therefore, has, in the technical language 
of gardeners, a spawning habit. 
ANGLE-BERRIES. Small warty tumours on 
the skin, disagreeable in appearance, and some- 
times very sore. On the eyelids of an animal, 
they are a great and constant annoyance; and 
on the teats of a cow, they both occasion the ani- 
mal.much pain, and render her difficult to milk. 
If a piece of waxed silk be tied firmly round the 
base of each, and tightened every day, the tu- 
mours will drop off without the effusion of blood, 
or the inoculation of the neighbouring parts. If 
they are large and very numerous, they ought to 
be cauterized; but if they are small and few, so 
that they can neither be tied nor cauterized, 
they ought to be daily touched with nitrate of 
silver, strong nitrous acid, or a strong solution 
of nitrate of silver, and they will speedily disap- 
pear. When angle-berries grow in great num- 
bers, or reappear after being reduced, so as to 
indicate a strong constitutional tendency to their 
growth, this tendency will probably be destroyed 
by the administration of iodine. See article 
IopINE. 
ANGORA GOAT. See Goat. 
ANGUILLA. A family of resurgent animal- 
cules, found in sand, roofing-tiles, vinegar, and 
other substances. But those most interesting to 
a farmer are a kind found in certain descriptions 
If a grain of long-kept and 
sooty-looking smutted corn be broken, the dry 
whitish matter which constitutes its internal 
substance, will, when examined through the 
microscope, be seen to change into a mass of long 
eel-shaped corpuscula, excessively dry, quite life- 
less, or at least inert, and so densely amassed 
that they cannot easily be separated from one 
another without rupture. If such a grain be 
immersed for some hours in water, and have its 
extremity dexterously broken off without damage 
to the interior, a number of anguillee, resembling 
minute eels, will be seen passing through the 
aperture, exactly lke tiny bits of paste drawn 
into minute pieces of very fine thread-like form. 
When dropped into water, they scatter, fall to 
the bottom, appear there like so many little lines 
either straight or somewhat curved, and remain 
in that position till they experience reanimation. 
The anguillz of some individual grains are re- 
animated in three hours or less; those of others, 
in four or five hours; those of others, not till 
twenty-four hours; and those of others, not till 
several days. The anguille even of one indivi- 
dual grain have such difference in the period of 
reanimation, that the first may be reanimated 
two days before the last. The phenomena of re- 
animation are fully as remarkable as the fact, but 
are too remotely connected with the great objects 
of our work to be a proper topic of description. 
If the reanimation of anguilla, wheel- worms, 
and some other animalculez, were popularly 
known, it might be employed with considerable 
effect, just as the transition of a butterfly from 
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