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Show CREEPING WATER-PARSNIP. 997 MEDICAL VIRTUES. The Edinburgh Pharmacopezia says of the sium only, * It was formerly alleged to be not onlydiuretic, but also emmenagogue and lithontriptic. It is now scarcely,employed.” Let us not, however, hastily discard any one remedy. Our countryman Ray (Synop. p. 213), and Beirie (Dict. de la Mat. Med.), recommend strongly the sium in cutaneous eruptions; and the late learned and ingenious Dr. Withering relates the case of a young lady, six years old, who was cured of an obstinate cutaneous disease by taking three large spoonfuls of the juice twice a day; and I have repeatedly given to adults three or four ounces every morning in similar complaints with the greatest advantage. It is not nauseous, and children take it readily if mixed with milk. In such quantities it neither affects the head, the stomach, or the bowels. P. CREEPING WATER-PARSNI SIUM NODIFLORUM. Class V. Pentandria, Essent. GEN. Cuan. Order U1. Digynia. on Tous 1 iot e polyphyl Fruit subovate, striate; Involucr a : ; Petals cordate. ry, sessile. axilla s Umbel te: pinna s Spec, Cuan. Leave ——— DESCRIPTION. Tr rises near a foot in height. g in an Leaves pinnate, ending a ci edge, and sessile. Flowers odd one, pinne sawed at the sng ; an and , ed of six to nine rays in axillary umbels, compos general involucre, ue a fe No . number of partial radii le pointed leaflets. sists of five, six, or seven Fruit divist on the other. two seeds, flat on one side, convex HISTORY. itches a ° 3 s wild in rivers, ditches, This plant is perennial, and grow July and August. marshes in England. It flowers in “ and |