PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 157 



CONIUM feminibus ilriatis. Sp. pi. 349. (Ger» 

 Em. 1 06 1. Mcris. hiji. f. 9. /. 6. /. i. ordine in- 

 ferior e,) 



Hemlock. Jnglis. 



In wafle places frequent. O . VI. VII. 



This plant has certainly narcotic and poifonous 

 qualities, but notwithftanding this it has lately 

 been introduced into the Maieria Medica as an 

 excellent medicine to remove almoil every com- 

 plaint arifiiig from obftrudions in the glands. 

 The celebrated Stork firft brought it into it*s 

 prefent reputation : that gentleman, by many 

 repeated experiments, found, that an extracft 

 prepared from the frefli roots in the Spring, was 

 a very powerful and efficacious remedy in almofl: 

 all kinds of ulcerous, fcrophulous, and even 

 cancerous diforders. 



ATHAMANTA. Gen. PL 338. 

 Fru^us ovato-oblongus, ftriatus. Feiala inflexa 



emarginata. 



ATHAMANTA foliolis capillaribus, feminibus 



glabris flriatis. Sp. pi, 353. (Ger. Em. 10^2. f, 



I. Moris. hiJi. / 9. /. 2. fig. media ordinis fupe- 



rioris, ) 



Common Spignel, Meu, or Bawd-Money. Anglis, 



Muilcionn. Gaulis. 

 In mountainous paflures in many places, as about 

 Crawford John Cajlle, in Lanerkfhire ; in the 

 mountains above Dunkeld, and in the paflures 

 about LGch-Rmncchy in Ferthjkire, Sec." and Sib- 



hald 



