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a. Small HEMLOCK, or FOOLS 

 PARSLEY. 



Description. 



The firft leaves are divided into numerous fmall 

 parts, which are of a pale green, oval, pointed, 

 and deeply indented. The llalk is flender, round, 

 upright, ftriated, and about a yard high. The 

 flowers are white, growing at the tops of the 

 branches in little umbeils. It is an annual plant* 

 common in orchards and kitchen gardens, and 

 flowers in June an4 July. This plant has been 

 often miftaken for parUey : and from thence it 

 has received the name of /^Wj ParJIey. 



Though it feems not to be of fq virulent a na- 

 ture as the larger hemlock, yet Boerhaave places 

 it among the vegetable poifons, in his Inftitutes; 

 and, in his Hiflory of Plants, produces an in- 

 ilance of its pernicious effefts |. It is there- 

 fore 



I Inftitutes, § 1138, Hi(^, of Plants, p. 93. 



