OENANTHE CROCATA. ORD. VI. Umbellate. 95 
from being taken medicinally. In a letter from Dr. Poultney to 
Sir William Watson,’ we are’ told that a severe and inveterate 
cutaneous disorder was cured by the juice of the root, though not 
without exciting the most alarming symptoms. Taken in the dose 
of a spoonful, in two hours afterwards the head was affected in a 
very extraordinary manner, followed with violent sickness and 
vomiting, cold sweats and rigors; but this did not deter the patient 
from continuing the medicine, in somewhat less doses, till it effect- 
ed a cure. 
@ Phil. Trans. vol. 62. 
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CICUTA VIROSA. WATER HEMLOCK. 
SYNONYMA. Cicuta Aquatica. Pharm. Murray.i.271. Bergius. 
212. Wepfer. Hist. Cicute Aquat. p. 4. Sium alterum olusatri 
facie. Lobel. Ic. 208. Ger. Emac. 256. Ray Hist. 450. Synop. 
212. Sium eruce folio. Bauh. Pin. 154. Sium majus angusti- 
folium. Park, Theat. 1241. Conf. Phil. Trans. 0. 44. 242. 
tab. 4.  Hal.n.781. Flor: Dan. 208. Cicuta virosa. Hudson. 
Flor. Ang. 122. Lightfoot. Scot. 164. With. Bot. Arr. 299. 
Smith. Brit. 322. Flor. Dan. 208. Eng. Bot. 479. 
Pentandria Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 354 
Gen. Ch. Fructus subovatus, sulcatus. 
Sp. Ch. C. umbellis oppositifoliis, petiolis marginatis obtusis. 
ROOT perennial, thick, short, hollow, beset at the joints with 
numerous slender fibres. Stalk thick, round, fistular, striated, 
smooth, sparingly branched, about four feet in height. Leaves 
pinnated, leafits usually placed in ternaries, spear-shaped, serrated ; 
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