See Juncus odora Tus.

Foenum Gr.ecum, (from faenum, hay, and Graecus. Greece; because it grew there in the meadows, like hay). Fenugreek; buceras, because the fruit is corniculated; and aegoceras, because the pods were supposed to resemble the horns of a goat, trigonella faenun graecum Lin. Sp. Pl. 1095. It is a plant with serrated, roundish leaves, whitish papilionaceous flowers, followed by long, slender, crooked, flattish pods, containing yellowish rhomboidal seeds, furrowed from one angle to the other; or, as Neumann observes, oblong, flattish. quadrangular, and roundish at one end. These seeds are sown annually in the south of Europe, from whence they are brought to us, and are the only parts of the plant employed ; their prevailing principle is mucilage, and an ounce renders a pint of water very mucilaginous. They are chiefly used in emollient cataplasms and fomentations, and in emollient and carminative clysters. They are slightly bitter, and have a disagreeable smell. See Lewis's Mat. Med. and Neumann's Chem. Works. Foenum graecum sylvestre. See Glaus vulgaris leguminosa.