44 OBSERVATIONSoN 



If the expreffed juice is placed in a ftatc 

 of reft until the feces fubfide, and afterward 

 poured off, it feems to lofe all the fpecific 

 flavour of the plant. 



Hemlock received into the human fto- 

 mach, has occafioned death ; but, like other 

 plants of the poifonous kind, it is not only 

 innoxious to certain animals, but appears to 

 furnifli them with food and nourifliment. 



Mr. Ray informs us, that he found the 

 crop of a thrufti full of the feeds of hemlock^, 

 at a time when corn was plentiful *. 



Dr. Withering obferves, that hemlock is 

 eaten by (heep, and refufed by horfes, cows, 

 and goats -f. 



Like other plants of the narcotick kind, 



the deleterious effedts of hemlock arc much 



leflened by vegetable acids J. 



Although 



* Nos quoque ventriculum otidis feu turdae avis dif- 

 fc£tiim cicutae femine refertum invenimus, quatuor 

 tantum aut quinque frumenti granis intermixtis : quod 

 etiatn meflis tempore avis ilia pro cicuta neglexerat : 

 adeo deleaatur cicuta. Hid. Plantar, vol. i. p. 451. 



■f Arrangement of Englifh Veg. vol. i. p. 163. 



t Cicuta, praefens illud venenum, fi coquitur in ace- 

 to, fme noxa comedi poteft, quod probavi aliquoties, 



e^perimenti 



