No. 22. CICUTA. 107 



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CICUTA MACULATA 



l-^NGLisH Name— AMERICAN HEMLOCK. 



- Fre^tch Name — Cigue d'Amerique- 

 CiERMAN Name — Americanische Schierlino. 

 Officinal Names — Cicuta Americana. 

 Vulgar Names — Snakeweedj Death of man, Wa- 

 ter Parsley, Poison root, Wild hemlocl;, Children's 



bane. 



Authorities — Linnaeus, Schoepf, Pursh, B. Bar- 

 ton, Ely, Stockbridge, Bigelovv, fig, 1£. 



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Genus Cicuta — Flowers umbellate : No invo- 



lucres, involucels many leaved and short ; calix sym- 

 phogyne, crown five toothed : petals oboval, entire, 

 inflexed ; five long stamina ; Fruit orbicular, crown- 

 ed ; with ten furrows, bipartible, bisperme. 



Species C. maculata — Root fasciculate, tube- 

 rose : Stem hollow and striated j leaves tripinnate, 



folioles lanceolote, senate, acuminate, teeth mucro- 

 nate, veins exmedial: involucels acute, flowers lax. 



DESCRIPTION — Root perennial, composed of 

 many oblong fleshy tubers, of a finger's size— Stem 

 from three to six feet high; hollow, striated, jointed, 



purple or green, smooth and branched. Leaves 



smooth, decomposed, alternate with petioles clasping 

 at the base, bilobe, membranaceous ; decreasing in 

 size upwards, where they are only ternate, while the 

 lower are tripinnate or triternate, folioles sessile, op 



