PENTANDRIA. 417 



among the most deadly of poisons ; accord- 

 ing to the remark of Linnaeus, who detected 

 the cause of a dreadful disorder among 

 horned cattle in Lapland, in their eating 

 young leaves of Cicuta virosa, Engl. Boi. 

 i\ 479, under water. 



Botanists in general shrink from the study 

 of the Umb'ellifefa, nor have these plants 

 much beauty in the eyes of amateurs ; but 

 they wi|l repay the trouble of a careful ob- 

 servation. The late M. Cusson of Mont- 

 pellier bestowed more pains upon them than 

 any other botanist has ever done ; but the 

 world has, as yet, been favoured with only 

 a part of his remarks. His labours met 

 with a most ungrateful check, in the un- 

 kindness, and still more mortifying stu- 

 pidity, of his wife, who, on his absence from 

 home, is recorded to have destroyed his 

 whole herbarium, scraping off* the dried 

 specimens, for the sake of the paper on 

 which they were pasted ! 

 3. Trigyma is illustrated by the Elder, the 

 Sumach or Rhus, Viburnum, &c, also 

 Corrigiola, Engl. Hot. t. 668, and Tu- 

 niarlx, i, 1318, of which last one specie^, 

 germa?iica > has 10 stamens. 



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