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An account of a poifonous plant, growmg ipsienasiny 0 
the fouthern part of Virginia. Extracted from a paper, 
by Dr. Fames Greenway, of Dinwiddie-County, in Vire~ 
ginia. 
Read Feb. O point out amarticle of the creation, fraught 
TO sid ee with noxious qualities, dangerous to man- 
kind, and hurtful to animals, is equally as ferviceable to 
the public, as to inform them of the medicinal virtues of 
the moft falutary vegetable, or celebrated antidote. 
As the virtues of plants have been generally difco- 
vered, by accident; fo likewife have deleterious qualities 
been detected, in others, where no fufpicion had ever been 
entertained of fuch: The plant, here mentioned, is an 
inftance of this: the deleterious quality, from outward 
appearance, {mell, or tafte, of this vegetable, can hardly be 
fufpefted unlefs by a botanift; and even se mult judge, 
on the bare conjeCtural foundation of fimilar virtues, in 
plants of the fame genus; which is nar paaeiregs found 
to fail,, in- numerous inftances.. 
I have heard this poifonous herb, called by the names 
of Wild-Carrot, Wild-Parfnep, Fever-Root, and Mock-Fel- 
Root. The Englifh names of. plants are, in this country, 
frequently mifapplied, and do not -diftinguifh them, with 
any certainty, 
It does not refemble a carrot or parfnep, in the ftalks, 
leaves, or flowers; though the root has fome refemblance 
to a parfnep, in colour and {mell; and the feeds have alfo 
a great likenefs. It refembles the Angelica, andthe mif- | 
chief 
