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Synop, p. 215. Stoerck, SuppL Conium 
Maculatum. Scop. Flor, Carn. p. 207. Berg'ws Mat, Med, 192. 
Curtis Flor, Lond, Withering Bot,Arrang, 277. Relhan Flor, Cant, 
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Fff, Gen, Ch. InvDlucella dimidiata, fubtriphylla. Jr//^^x lubglo 
bofus, 5-ftriatus, utrincpe crenatus. 
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C. feminibus ftriatis. 
THE root is biennial, tapering, fometimes forked, eight or ten 
inches long, and about the thicknefs of a fmger : the ftalk is live or 
fix feet high, round, fhining, befet with brown and purplifh fpecks; 
towards the top branched and ftriated; near the bottom about three 
inches in circumference, and covered with a bluifli exudation, 
pearing like a fine powder : the lower leaves are very large, 
nated, of a fhinin 
reen colour, ftanding upon long, ftriated, concave 
footftalks, which proceed from the joints of the ftem ; the upper and 
fmaller leaves are bipinnated, and placed at the divifions of the 
branches : the flowers are produced in umbels, which are both 
univerfal and partial, and compofed of feveral ftriated radii. 
univerfal involucrum 
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