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’ CICUTA VIROSA. WATER HEMLOCK. - 
SY.NONYMA. Cicuta aquatica. Pharm. Murray.i.271. Bergius. 
212. Wepfer. Hift. Cicute Aquat. p. 4. Sium alterum olufatri 
facie. Lobel. Ic. 208. | Ger. Emac. 256. Ray. Hift. 450. _ Synop. 
212. Sium eruce folio. “ Baub. Pin. 154. Sium majus angutti- 
folium. Park. Theat. 1241. Conf. Phil. Tranf. v. 44. 242. tab. 4. 
. Hall. n. 781. Flor. Dan. 208. Cicuta virofa. Hudf. Flor. Ang. 
122, Lightfoot. Scot. 164. With. Bot. Arr. 299. 
Pentandria Digynia. Lin, Gen. Plant. 354. ~ 
Gen Ch. Fruétus fubovatus, fulcatus. - 
Sp. Ch. C. umbellis oppofitifoliis, petiolis marginatis obtufis. 
ROOT perennial, thick, fhort, hollow, befet at the joints with 
numerous flender fibres. Stalk thick, round, fiftular, ftriated, fmaoth, 
fparingly branched, about four feet in height. Leaves pinnated, 
leafits tifually placed in ternaries, fpear-fhaped, ferrated ; ferratures 
white at the points. Flowers in large expanding umbels. Partial 
involucrum compofed of feverak fhort briftle-thaped leaves. Calyx” 
fearcely difcernible. Florets all uniform, fertile, each confifting of 
five petals, which are ovate, turned inwards, of a greenifh white. 
Filaments five, capillary, longer than the petals. Anthere fimple, 
purplifh. Styles two, at firft clofe, afterwards divaricating. Stigmata 
fimple. Fruit egg-fhaped, divifible into two feeds, which are ribbed 
and convex on one fide, and flat on the other. — near. Pes 
It grows on the borders of pools and rivers, flowering in July and 
This plant, which in its recent ftate has a {mell refembling that of 
{mallage, and a tafte fomewhat like that of parfley, is well known to 
be a powerful poifon. Haller fuppofes it to be the Ke» of Diofcorides ; 
but whether it is the Athenian cicuta, or the plant of which the 
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