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Barbigeras pecudes, homini-que eft acre venenum. 



Lncret. 

 Linnaeus afiiires us that he has known cattle to die 

 by eating the roots •, and JP^ehfcr informs ns, 

 that one ounce of it threw a dog into convul- 

 fions, and two cnnces kill'd it : he mentions 

 ahb its direful effetls upon fevcral other animals. 

 And Schivenki, a Ge-nnan writer, gives an account 

 of four boys, who had the misfortune to cat of 

 it ; three of whom died in convuifions. Strong 

 emetics, adminifter'd as foon as pofiible, are the 

 moft approv'd antidote 



iETHUSA. Gen. PL ^55- 

 hi'vcluccUa dimidiata, triphylla, pendula. Fru^us 



ftriatus. 

 .^THUSA. Sp. pi. 367. (Ger. Em. 1063. /. i. 

 Moris, hijf. / 9. /. 2". /. 2. crdinis fuperioris ad 

 finijtram.^ 

 LeiTer Hemlock, or Fool's ParOey. Anglis. 

 It is a common weed in gardens. Q. VIIL 

 The ftalk is channel'd : the leaves doubly and 

 triply pinnated : the lacin's acute, and deeply 

 ferrated : of a fliining dark-green color* 

 The plant, when biuiicd, has a ib'cng virulent 

 fmell, fomething like garlick. It's quahties 

 correfpond to the fmell, for it is of a poifonous 

 nature, producing ftupors, vom.itings and con- 

 vuifions. Cooks therefore cannot be too care- 

 ful that they miflake it not for parfley, which it 

 a good deal refembles. 



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