PENTANDRIA. 317 



panied, as Jussieu observes, by the habit of a Thistle. 

 Lagoecia is justly referred to this natural order by 

 the same writer, though it has only a solitary seed 

 and style. 



The Umhdliferce are mostly herbaceous ; the 

 qualities of such as grow on dry ground are aro- 

 matic, while the aquatic species are among the most 

 deadly of poisons ; according to the remark of 

 Linnaeus, who detected the cause of a dreadful dis- 

 order among horned cattle in Lapland*, in their 

 eating young leaves of Cicuta virosa, Engl. Bot, 

 t. 479j under water. 



Botanists in general shrink from the study of the 

 ZTmbeU'iferce, nor have these plants much beauty in 

 the eyes of amateurs ; but they will repay the 

 trouble of a careful observation. The late M. Cusson 

 of Montpellier bestowed more pains upon tliem 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 un^frateful 

 check, in the unkindness, and still mere mortifying 

 stupidity, of his wife, who, during his absence from 

 home, is recorded to have destroyed his whole her- 

 barium, scraping off the dried specimens, for the 

 sake of the paper on which they were pasted ! 



3. Trigynia is illustrated by the Elder, the Sumach 

 or Rhus, Vibm^num, Sec, also Corrigiola, Engl. 



* See his Tour in Lapland, r. 2. 136. 



