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Show CORIANDER, 995 MEDICAL VIRTUES, Coriander er is i a warm aromatic i seed, and of the same nature, and used for the same purposes, as Caraways. They are di rected in the infusum amarum(bitter infusion), and infusum senne tartarizatum (tartarized infusion of senna), with the view, > as Cullen observes, of adding warmth to the medici ne. << The seeds,” says this professor, * infused along with senna more powerfully correct the odour and taste of the medicine than any other aromatic I have employed ; and are equally succes sful in obviating costiveness, which senna is very apt to-produce.” CORIANDER. CORIANDRUM. ——— Class V. Pentandria. Order If. Digynia. Corolla radiate: Petals inflexo-emarginate: InveEssent. Gen. Car. Fruit sphelucre universal, monophyllous, partial, occupying ane half: rical. s Spec. Cuar, Fruit globular, SS DESCRIPTION. Tas plant rises to two feet high. Leaves variously pinnated. The flowers are white or reddish, and placed on terminal umbels. Thepartial are composed of more radii than the general, and each one is furnished with an involucre of three narrow leaves, but the general is composed of a single leaflet. The fruit is globular, and divides into two hemi-spherical concave leaves. HESTORY., It is a native of the south of Europe, where it is often @ troublesome weed. Frombeing cultivated here,it is often found wikl in the fields. |