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Show 984 GARDEN CARROT. the nature of the discharge, and procured ease, but had not power to stop its progress. By the account given by Mr. Gibson, in the fourth volume of Medical Observations and Inquiries, it should seem that the efficacy of these poultices, when applied to oldsores, is greatly increased by the patient using freely for drink an infusion of malt, or wort. The seeds of this sort of carrot are carminative and diuretic. GIGANTIC FENNEL. FERULA ASSAFCETIDA. Class V. Pentandria. ise Gen. Cuar. Order IT. Digynia. Fruit oval, compresso-plane, three strie on each side, SPEC, Cuan. Leaves alternate, sinuate, obtuse. te ; DESCRIPTION. HIs rises two feet. It abounds with a milky juice. ered Rus “me simple, straight. Stemis Leaves near two feet long, bipinnate, a # alternate. Umbels plano-convex, terminal, composed of radi , Seeds Se ; “ nyy radii. oval, flat, marked with three longitudinal es. HISTORY. T he plant which furnishes $ ail assafcetida is perennial, and native of Persia » Ithas, however, borne fertile i seeds in the openair aos garden of Edinburgh. The gum-resinis proWhen the te e ead plants which are at least four years old. ae ae pret to decay, the stalk is twisted off, and the a rom about their large tapering roots. The top 5 Some time afterwards cut off transversely, and fortyetight a which was exudedis sit hours5 afterwards the juice scrapedoff, |