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Show SWEET FENNEL. 309 for their carminative and hypnotic powers, and theref ore have been recommended in flatulent colics, and certain dyspeptic symptoms proceeding froma laxity of the stoma ch. They are also said to be moreeffectual than the other seeds of this class in promoting the secretion of milk. At this time, however, the seeds of dill are seldom employed, though a simple distil led rues prepared from them’ is directed both by the London and Edinburgh Pharmacopeeias. SWEET FENNEL. ANETHUM GRAVEOLENS. Class V. Pentandria. Order 11. Digynia. inver Essent. Gex. Caan. Fruit subovate, compressed, striate: Petals lute, entire. Spec. Cuar. Fruit ovate. RE DESCRIPTION. Ix rises four feet. The leaves stand upon sheathy footstalks, and are doubly pinnate, pinnz linear pointed. Flowers on. terminal umbels, of a pale yellow. No general or partial involucre.. Seeds two, ovate, flat, striated, and surrounded with a membranous margin. HISTORY. This plant is a native of Spain and Portugal, and is perfectly naturalized to this climate. It flowers in June and July. MEDICAL VIRTUES. ed in, The seeds and the plant itself were formerly much us esteem? been have es Dioscorid of time the from medicine, and |