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Show i y SMALL BURNET SAXIFRAGE. PIMPINELLA. Class V. Pentandria.” ANTSE. PIMPINELLA ANISUM. Order 11. Digynia. Stigmata subEssent. GEN. Cuan. Fruit ovate-oblong: Petals inflexed: globose. narrower. Spec. Cuan. Leaves pinnate: Leaflets radical subrotund, upper —— Class I. Pentandria. Essent, Gew Cuan. . Setehic. Te Srec, Cuar. HOS TORY. and It is a native of this country, and grows in dry meadows September. pastures. ‘The flowers appear in August and MEDICAL VIRTUES. Bergius states thevirtues of this root to be resolvent, diaphoretic, stomachic, and diuretic. It is recommended by several humours writers as a stomachic, and in all cases where pituitous coughs, catarrhal dropsies, asthmas, as prevail, to are thought hoarsenesses, and what has been called angina serosa; and by In the Hoffmannit is said to be an excellent emmenagogue. mucus, viscid way of gargle it has been employed for dissolving paralytic. and to stimulate the tongue when that organ becomes Chewing the root, by drawing off the saliva from the gums, immediately relieves the tooth-ach. The dose inwardly is a scruple in substance, and in infusion two drachms. » as : Petals inflexed: Stigmata subteruit ¢ ovate-oblong: i Leaves pinnated i , leaflets radical subrotund, abovelinear. EE DESCRIPTION. pinIr rises a foot in height. The leaves are variously shaped, no is There umbels. terminal upon stand flowers The nated. egg-shaped. furrowed, naked, are seeds The involucre. Order I. Digynia. Frui DESCRIPTION. = abs to a foot in height.. The leaves are on the i a . the stem divided into narrow pinnated segments, gd ro roundish, separated into three lobes, somewis ) Stand ing on long footstalks. ‘The flowers are small, » and placed in terminal umbels. No involucres. HISTORY. a. sole ae umbelliferous plant, growing wild in Crete, Dante of he er places of the east. It is cultivated in some in England: ae Germany, and Spain, and mayberaised also 3 a seeds brought from Spain, which are smaller ih Ani ¢ others, are preferred. eee aromatic smell, and a pleasant warm taste, litle of their ie a degree of sweetness. Water extracts very avour; rectified spirit the whole. x |