( 142 ) 
rities little reliance is to be placed; fo that the efficacy of this plant 
refts chiefly on the teftimonies of Ernftingius and Lange, by whom 
various cafes of its fuccefsful ufe are publithed, efpecially i in wounds 
and inveterate ulcers of different kinds, and even in cancers ;° alfo in 
phthifis pulmonalis, afthma, dyfpepfia, intermittent fevers, &c. 
About two feruples of the feed, two or three times a day, was the 
ordinary dofe given. 
Though the diforders here noticed are fo Etelbifirious and diffi- 
milar as to afford no fatisfa@tory evidence of the medicinal qualities of . 
thefe feeds, yet they appear to us well deferving of farther invet- 
tigation, according to the maxim ‘ Ubi virus ibi virtus.’ 
* Boerhaave alfo fpeaks highly of its difcutient power in all kinds of tumours. “Hif. 
é beaks Hort. Ludg. Bat. t. p. ot 
OENANTHE CROCATA. HEMLOCK WATER-DROPWORT. 
SY NON YMA. ‘Genaiiche Cherophylli foliis. Bauh. Pin. 162. 
Filipendula cieutz facie. Ger. Emac. 1057. Oenanthe, fucco virofo, 
cicute facie Lobelii, Baub. Hi it. ut. 193. Park. Theat. 894+ 
Raii. Synop. 210. Morris, Seét. 9. tab. 9. Watfon. Phil. Tranf. 
v. 44. 2. 480. tab. 3- Oenanthe crocata. Hudf. Flor. Ang. 121. 
| Withering. Bot. Arr. 297. es ifoot. Flor. Scot.162. Ic. Facquine. 
Hert Ute te 55. 
" Pentandria Digynia, Lin. Gen. Plant. 352. 
Gen. Ch. Flofeuli difformes: in difco fefliles, fteriles. Fruéfus aailyee 
et piftillo coronatus. 33 
Sp. Ch. e. foliis omnibus eaultsfidis obtufis fubequalibus. 
* 
ROOT perennial, divided into numerous parts, 
or oblon tuber- 
cles, furnifhed with long flender fibres. Stalks erect, shinee’, 
round, fmooth, branched, of a yellowith red colour, two or three 
7 feet 
