104 ORD. VL Umbellate. 
CONIUM MACULATUM. COMMON HEMLOCK: 
SYNONYMA. Cicuta. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Hal. Stivp. 
Helv. 766. Cicuta major. Bauh. Pin. 160. Cicuta vulgaris. 
major, Park. 933. Cicutaria vulgaris: Clus. Hist. 2. 206, 
Cicuta. Gerard,.1061. Raii Hist. vol. 1. 451. Synop. p. 215. 
Stoerck. Suppl. Conium Maculatum. Scop. Flor. Carn. p. 207, 
Bergius Mat. Med. 192. Curtis Flor. Lond. Withering Bot. 
Arrang. 277. Relhan Flor. Cant. 112. Smith Brit. 302. Ksew» 
 < Grecor. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 336. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Involucella dimidiata, subtriphylla. Fructus sub+ 
globosus, 5-striatus, utrinque crenatus. 
Sp. Ch. C. seminibus striatis. 
THE root is ‘pheanint: tapering, sometimes forked, eight or tet 
inches long, and about the thickness of a finger: the stalk is five 
or six feet high, round, shining, beset with brown and purplish 
specks; towards the top branched and striated; near the bottom 
about three inches in circumference, and covered with a bluish 
exudation, appearing like a fine powder: the lower leaves are very 
large, tripinnated, of a shining green colour, standing upon long: 
striated, concave footstalks, which proceed from the joints of the 
stem; the upper and smaller leaves are bipinnated, and placed ‘at 
the divisions of the branches: the flowers are produced in umbels, 
which are both universal and partial, and composed of several 
striated radii. The universal inyolucrum ¢ consists of five or seven 
leaves, these are lanceolated, whitish at the margin, and bent 
* The calyx of umbelliferous plants is termed inyolucrum, and may be univer- 
sal, partial, or proper, according ag it.is placed at the universal umbel, partial 
‘umbel, or flower. 
