118 CONXUM. No. 25. 



No. 25. 



: CONIUM MACULATUM. 



English Name— COMMON HEMLOCK. 



French Name — Cic^ue commune, 

 German Name — Gemeine Schierlin^g. 

 Officinal Name — Gonium, Cicuta officinalis. 

 Vulgar Names — Poison Parsley, Spotted Pars- 

 ley. 



Authorities — Linnaeus, Schoepf, Murray, Cul- 



len. Coxc, many Dispens. Bigelovv, figi II; and Seq- 



Genu$J^J!aiiM— Flowers umbellate, with many 



eave 



concrete with the pistil, margin entire. Petals five 

 entire inflexed. Stamina five, Style? two. Fruit bi- 

 , partible, two seeded, oval, compressed, ribbed, ribs 

 wrinkled or crenate. 



Species C. Maculatum — Stem round, hollow, 

 striated, and spotted : leaves decomposed, bi or 

 tripinnate, folioles opposite, sessile, pinnatifid : fruit 

 with undulated ribs, 



DESCRIPTION— Root biennial, elongated, branch^ 

 cd or fusiform — Stem from two to four feet high, 

 branched, smooth, round, striated, hollow, jointed, 

 and with oblong purplish dotts — Leaves smooth, de- 

 composed, two or three times pinnate, with short 

 gheathing petioles, leaflets or folioles pinnatifid, oval. 

 nearly obtuse, often confluent. 



