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Tnt flowers grow at the tops of the ftalk, 

 and in thin flendef ^ikes out of the alae of 

 the leaves, and are of a light green. The 

 flowers are of two kinds, male and female. 

 The furrov/s of the germen receive a barren 

 filament, terminated with a gland, marked 

 with two dark-coloured fpots. 



It is found very common in woods, 

 fhady places, upon ditch banks, and flowers 

 very early in fpring. 



LiGHTFooT * found it in many parts of 

 Scotland, both in the Highlands and Low- 

 lands. 



This plant is poifonous. It is of a fopo- 

 fific deleterious nature, and is faid to be 

 noxious both to man and beaft. Many in- 

 fiances are recorded of its fatal eflfeds. 



Mr. Ray acquaints us with the cafe of a 

 man, his wife, and three children, who 

 were poifoned by eating the cynocrambe fried 

 with bacon. 



* Flor. Scot. vol. ii. p. 621. 



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