Flora Medica

APIA.CEX OR UMBELLIFERJE.flatulent colic of children. The oil obtained from it enters as an adjuvantor corrective into various officinal preparations, as the confection ofopium, of rue and of scammony, the compound tincture of cardamomand of senna, &c. Pereira.80. Carum nigrum, called " zeera seeah," is imported fromKunawur into India as a carminative. Royk.PIMPINELLA.Calyx obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, with an inflexedlobe. Fruit contracted from the side, crowned by a cushionlikedisk, and reflexed somewhat capitate styles. Half-fruitswith 5 filiform equal ridges, the lateral of which are on the edge.Channels with many vittae. Radical leaves pinnated withroundish toothed segments, very seldom undivided ; those of thestem more finely cut. Involucres none. Flowers white, seldompink or yellow.81. P. Saxifraga Linn. sp. 378. DC.prodr. iv. 120. Eng.Bot. t. 407. Nees and Eberm.pl med. t. 273. handb. iii. 1 6. SmithEng. Fl. ii. 89. Dry gravelly and chalky pastures, and rockyground all over Europe, and the Crimea ;also in Persia. (BurnetSaxifrage.)Root tough and woody, highly aromatic and pungent, not unpleasant.Stems from 1 to 2 feet high, solid, round, striated, very slightly downy,branched. Radical leaves stalked, oblong, pinnate; leaflets, of thelowermost especially, ovate, veiny, deeply serrated and cut ;of theupper ones almost entirely wanting, the leaf being represented by amembranous convolute sheath. Umbels of many general and partialsmooth rays, drooping when young, either altogether naked, or with onesolitary bract to each. Flowers white as well as the seeds. Tumidbases of the styles reddish. Fruit chesnut brown, scarcely more thana line long, narrow, shining, a little tapered to the neck the; ridgessharp, not much paler than the channels. Root astringent; used as amasticatory to release toothach, and m decoction to remove freckles.Burnett.82. P. dissecta Retz. obs. iii. t. 2. Nees and Eberm. pi. med.t. 274-. handb. iii. 17. P. pratensis Thuill. P. laciniata Thore.P. magna var. E. DC. Woods of Europe.Segments of the upper leaves bipinnatifid, with lanceolate-linear lobesvery like the next species. Effects as in P. Saxifraga.83. P. magna Linn. mant. 217. Eng. Sot. t. 408. Nees andEberm. handb. iii. 18. Pastures, meadows, and mountainouswoods all over Europe, and the Levant.Radical leaves pinnated, with toothed or cut segments having anovate or oblong outline. Similar in effect to P. Saxifraga.84. P. Anisum Linn. sp. 399. iv.DC.prodr. 122. Nees andEberm.pl. med. t. 275. handb. iii. 1 8. S. and C. iii. 1. 1 56. Woodv.t. 180 Anisum officinale Mcench. meth. 100. Sison Anisum38