REMARKS on THE CICUTA VENENOSA. 235 
chief that has been done by it, has proceeded from miftak- 
ing one for the other. | 
I will here-infert the defcription, as-it fands in my cata- 
logue, firft, in botanical terms, for fuch as.are lovers of 
that {cience, and then in language, as, plainly Englith as 
the fubje& will admit, for the fake of thofe to whom thole 
terms are lefs familiar. 
Cicuta Venenofa. Claffis, Pentandria. Ordo, Digynia. 
Radix perennis, fufiformis, perpendicularis; colore ct 
_ odore paftinace radicis predita. Caulis erectus, herbace- 
us, guatuor pedes altus, teres, fiftulofus, geniculatus, fub- 
nudus, ftriato-canaliculatus, ‘purpureus, fuperné tomento- 
fus.—Folia petiolata, petiolis femi-amplexicaulibus, mem- 
branaceis, fulcatis, triternata, bipinnata, cum impari termi+ 
natrice, feepe bilobo ; ; foliolis feffilibus, . oblongo-lanceola- 
tis, ferratis— Folia ima longiflimé petiolata, triternata, 
foliolis ovalibus ferratis, fevbanlitts denticulatis. 
Flores albi, in umbellis compofitis fubrotundis, fine in- 
volucro univerfali cum partiali polyphyllo. Locis campef 
tribus et collibus apricis g gaudet : : menfibus Julii- Augulti- 
que floret. 
Hemlock, Poifonous sai att °C. 
The root is perennial; of the colour and fmell of a 
parfnep, but much fmaller. The ftalk rifes four feet high, 
upright, round, lightly channelled, as if fluted; of a 
purple colour, hairy or downey on the upper part; hols 
low and jointed. There are only two, three, or four pair 
of leaves, placed oppofitely, at the joints, on membrana= 
ceous hollowed ftalks, which embrace the main ftem. The 
leaves are winged, terminated with an odd one, which is 
frequently divided into two lobes. 
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