i62 PENTANDRIA DIGYNfA. 



The umbels have no imiverfal involucrum ; when 

 /^/,aai//^A^^'^r]pQ the/^refemble fmall prickly fpheres. 



ttocaia 2. OE. foliis omnibus multifidis obrufis fubcequair- 

 biis. Sp. pL 365. {Ger. Em. 1059. /. 4. Moris, 

 hijl. f^t. 7./. 2. crdinis fecundi. FeL herb. t. 2c^. 

 f- 1-) 



Hemlock Dropwort. An-^lis. 



Upon the banks of ditches, rivers and lakes fre- 

 quently. %. VII. 



The rays of the univcrfal umbel are longitudinally 

 furrow'd, arid has nouniverlal involucrum : the 

 leaves are fnigly and doubly pinnated : each fo- 

 liolum is wedge-iliap'd, fmooth, ilreak'd v/ith 

 lines, and hotch'd on the edges. 



The roots and leaves cf this plant are a terrible 

 poifon j feveral perfons have perifhed by eating 

 it thro' miftake, cither for wattr-parfneps or for 

 celeri, which laft it refembles pretty much in its 

 leaves. So extremely deleterious is its nature, 

 that I remember to have heard the late Mr. 

 Cbriftopher D. Ehrct^ that celebrated botanic 

 painter, f:y, that while he vv^as drawing this 

 plant, the fmell or ePiiUvia only rendered hirn 

 lb giddy that he was feveral tim.es oblig'd to quit 

 the room, and walk out in the frclli air to re- 

 cover himfelf ; but recolledling at lafb what 

 might probably be the caufe of his repeated ill- 

 nefs, he opened the door and v>^indows of the 

 room, and the free air then enabled him to finiil 



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