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PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. ^Ethusa. 



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pair of little-leaves, which are variously divided and indented. 

 Petals yellowish pale green. 



Long-leaved Water Hemlock. Water Covubane. Sides of 



pools and rivers. [Pond two miles from Northwich on the side 

 of the road to Chester ; and in Nottingham Park. Mr. Wood. 

 Near Norwich. Mr. Pitchford. — Near Yarmouth. Mr. 

 Woodward. — Kingston Pool, near Stafford. St. — Lochs of For- 

 far and Restenet. Mr. Brown. — Mr. Slaney's pool dam, Hat- 

 ton, Shropshire.] P. July, Aug.* 



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,/ETHU'S A. Involucellums reaching half way round, 



3-leaved, bent downwards ; fruit nearly glo- 



bular, deeply furrowed. 



Cyna'pium . JE . All 



Me / um 



Curt.-Kniph. \2-Ri<v.pent. 7^ y Cynafiz/m-Ger. em. 106l*l- 

 Park. 933. 2-Pet.28. 3-Blaci<w. b\7~H. ox. ix. 7. ft. 2, 

 jig. 1st. 



From 1 £ to 2 feet high, branched. Leaves doubly winged, 

 smooth, glossy dark green ; leaftts divided into 3 segments, which 

 are again subdivided into 3 or 5. Umbel spokes often 18 or 

 more. Involucell. 3 very long and slender lea fits, pointing 

 downwards/ Flovoers whitish. 



Fool's Parsley, or Cicelej. Lesser Hemlock. ' Cornfields and 

 kitchen gardens. A. Aug. Sept.t 



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ing at each end. 



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i. 777- l-Ger. em. 105?. l-Park. 838. \-H. ox. ix. Q, row 



* This is one of the rankest of our vegetable poisons. Numerous in- 

 stances are recorded of its fatality to the human species in a treatise upon 

 it by Weffer and Halter's hist. helv. n. 78 1. See also an account of its de- 

 leterious effects in the Phil. Trans, abr. x. Early in the spring, when it 

 grows in the water, cows often eat it, and are killed by it ; but as the 

 summer advances, and its scent becomes stronger, they carefully ayoul »*• 

 Though a certain and fatal poison to cows, goats devour it greedily and 

 with impunity. — Horses and sheep eat it with safety. 



f This plant, from its resemblance to common parsley, has sometimes 

 been mistaken for it, and when eaten it occasions sickness. If the curled- 

 leaved parsley only was cultivated in our gardens, no such mistakes wouJa 

 happen. Cows, horses, sheep, goats and swine eat it. It is noxious 10 

 geese. 



