130 CICUTA MACULATA. 
day, he pointed out the spot where they had dug 
the root, and where a considerable quantity of it 
remained. - Some of the root was planted by Dr. 
Mitchill in the New York Hospital garden, where 
it vegetated and produced flowers and fruit. It 
turned out to be the Cicuta maculata of Linneeus. 
In the same article, is a letter from Dr. Muhlen- 
berg, stating that he had received specimens from 
Savannah and from West Pennsylvania, where it 
- had destroyed several persons, who ate it by mis- 
take for angelica. All the specimens were simi- 
lar, so that there could be no doubt of the identity 
of the plant. In the same letter, Dr. Muhlenberg 
remarks, that he had reason to believe that the poi- 
sonous quality of the root is altered by cultivation 
in a dry soil. 
The foregoing facts are sufiicient to establish 
the poisonous character of the plant under consid- 
eration. ‘They may also serve to shew the im- 
portance of accurate descriptions and faithful en- 
gravings of noxious vegetables, which may enable 
even unlearned observers to distinguish them at 
sight. There can be little doubt that cases, like 
those above described, haye occurred in repeated 
instances, which have never met the publie eye. 
Perhaps also from an ignorance of the real cause 
of the symptoms, the proper remedies have been 
