Crossword-Solution: MYRRHIS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Chervile, _Chærophyllum, Myrrhis_; The sweet aromatick _Spanish Chervile_, moderately hot and dry: The tender _Cimæ_, and Tops, with other Herbs, are never to be wanting in our _Sallets_, (as long as they may be had) being exceedingly wholsome and chearing the Spirits: The _Roots_ are also boil'd and eaten Cold; much commended for Aged Persons: This (as likewise _Spinach_) is us'd in _Tarts_, and serves alone for divers Sauces.

Herb gatherers sometimes mistake the wild Cicely (_Myrrhis odorata_) for the Hemlock; but this Cicely has a furrowed stem without spots, and is hairy, with a highly aromatic flavour.

This disease was, in general, successfully treated by our author, with a decoction of "Chærephyllum, Quinquefolium, Myrrhis, Rosæ et Salvia;" in which was dissolved a "sat magna copia" of white vitriol.--A combination about as precise as some of the prescriptions which have been recommended to me, for the present disease, in this country.

The fruit of _myrrhis odorata_ (sweet cicily), and of _illicium anisatum_ (star-anise), also possess the odour and flavour of common aniseed; indeed, most of the essential oil now sold as ‘oil of aniseed’ is star-anise oil.

Cow-parsley, as it is popularly called (_Myrrhis temulenta_), is a very favourite vegetable with the rabbit: but unless the gatherer is perfectly acquainted with its form and leafage, he will be wise to leave it standing; for it marvellously resembles the common hemlock (_Conium maculatum_), which is extremely poisonous; and unless the two plants be thoroughly known, the rabbit may be poisoned through the mistaken kindness of the owner.