CIMICIFUGA, in botany, a genus of the polyandria order, belonging to the dioecia class of plants. Mierschmidtus, in the Isis Siberica, gives it the following character and name: Cimicifuga fatida with the leaves of the herb Christopher, bearing a thyrsis of yellow male flowers with a red villous seed, the seed-vessel in form of a horn. This whole plant so resembles the actea racemosa, that it is difficult to distinguish them when not in flower; but in the fructification it greatly differs from it, the cimicifuga having four pistills, the actea but one. Jacquin says, that it is a native of the Carpathian mountains. It has obtained the name of cimicifuga, or bugbane, both in Siberia and Tartary, from its property of driving away those insects; and the botanists of those parts of Europe which are infested by them, have long desired to naturalise it in their several countries

CIMICIFUGA, in botany, a genus of the polyandria order, belonging to the dioecia class of plants. Mierschmidtus, in the Isis Siberica, gives it the following character and name: Cimicifuga fatida with the leaves of the herb Christopher, bearing a thyrsis of yellow male flowers with a red villous seed, the seed-vessel in form of a horn. This whole plant so resembles the actea racemosa, that it is difficult to distinguish them when not in flower; but in the fructification it greatly differs from it, the cimicifuga having four pistills, the actea but one. Jacquin says, that it is a native of the Carpathian mountains. It has obtained the name of cimicifuga, or bugbane, both in Siberia and Tartary, from its property of driving away those insects; and the botanists of those parts of Europe which are infested by them, have long desired to naturalise it in their several countries.