CACHRYS

(Lat.), n. f. Ka?k(kasch?)ri?s(ru®s), Gen., cach’- jos. Gr., xdyxpvs, xéxpvs. Fr., cachrys, cachryde. 1. Of the ancients, a pill containing astringent and heating ingredients; hence applied to aromatic seeds and, according to Pliny, to certain excrescences on the oak and other trees. f Linnæus, a genus of Umbelliferæ, tribe Sese lineæ, subtribe Cachrydeæ. [B, 42, 121,J— C. cretic a [Linneeus]. A species growing in southern Europe, of similar properties to those of C. lib a not is and probably also called ABaveris. [B, 180.|—C. Ubanotis [Linnæus]. A species indigenous to northern Africa and southern Europe; the ABaværis of Dioscorides. The acrid-aromatic root and fruit (the latter being the ai of Dioscorides) were formerly employed in medicine. B, 180.|—C. maritima [Sprengel]. The Crithmum maritimum., 173,] C. odontalgic a [Pallas]. A species growing in the dry wastes of northern Asia, where its aromatic root was used as a sialagogue masticatory in toothache. _[B, 180.]—C. pterochlena (ime Candolle], C. sienla [Linnæus]. Probably the immoudpaépov of ioscorides and Hippo crates. [B, 180.] CACHU (Bengal.), n. The Colocasia anti quorum. [B, 172.] CACHUAR (Bengal.), n. The Bauhinia variegata. [B, 172.] CACHULOT, n. The Sylphium trilobatum. [B, 121.] CACHUNDE, CACHUNDICA, n’s. Fr., cachundé. A Chinese cachou resembling the cachou de Bologne, spoken of by R. Lentil i us as the ‘* electuarium comfort ans ”; largely used in China and India to perfume the breath, and regarded as a stomachic and saespaaer es [A, 301, 325; L, 56, 77.)