CARPASIUM
\kɑːpˈe͡ɪsi͡əm], \kɑːpˈeɪsiəm], \k_ɑː_p_ˈeɪ_s_iə_m]\
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Dioscorides, Pliny, Galen, &c., have given these names, and that of Carpasos, to a plant, which cannot now be determined, and whose juice, called Opocar'pason, passed for a violent, narcotic poison, and was confounded with myrrh.
By Robley Dunglison
