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’ The folioles are oblong, and f{pear-thaped, fawed on: 
their edges. The flowers are white, compofing a large 
compound umbel, without any involucrum; containing 
many {maller or partial umbels, each with an involucrum 
of many fmall narrow leaves. The filaments. and ftyles 
may be feen projecting beyond the flower leaves, being: 
longer than the petals are. It grows on hilly barren lands, 
on dry grounds and open fields; though fometimes I have 
found it in moift places. It blooms in July and Auguft. 
I have, lately, obferved feveral of thefe plants, with 
their lower leaves growing on very long ftems, or petioles, 
the petiole encreafing in length is divided into three; and 
each of thefe fubdivided again: into three more. Each. 
{mall ftem, of this laft divifion, bears three leaves; which. 
at their firft putting out feem to be joined in one: but as. 
they increafe, with age, the lobes divide, and expand. 
themfelves into three diftin& leaves, which are oval fhap= 
ed, fawed onthe edges; with denticles, or fmal] points, at: 
every ferrature. Thofe which do not fully expand, remain 
in- two lobes, or three lobes, whence proceeds the great 
variety of the leaves, in this plant. The expanfion of 
the petiole varies very much, alfo in its divifions ; from. 
whence it happens, that the leaves are often fimply pin- 
nate, ternate, doubly ternate; triply ternate; which may 
vary the defcription, but the habit of the plant is fo ftrik- 
ing, and fimilar, in every one, that no miftake can pofli- 
bly happen in diftinguifhing it. ) | 19 
. This plant.is endued with a poifonous quality. Its ope-. 
ration, on.the human body, has been pointed out by an 
accident, that. happened, very lately, in’ my neighbours 
hood; the relation of which is as follows. 
. Sometime in the month of May laft, three negro-boys. 
were fearching, in the woods, for Wild Angelica, or, as. 
they commonly call it, Eel-Root. They founda plant, it 
