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in a week's time me found herfelf better, and in a few weeks 

 more was perfectly recovered, and never, for tbefe twenty years 

 paft, bad any return of it, continuing in a good ftate of health ; 

 at this time, I believe, alive and well. It flowers in June and 

 July. ' -' 



55. Long-leaved Water-Hemlock (y). In ditches and by waters, 

 on the banks of North Tyne at low Park-End, near Nunivick, in a 

 bed of water-land, thrown up by floods, among the bufhes. The 

 root is of the thicknefs of the common hemlock, oblong, white, 

 and fibratecl. The ftalk is round, ftriated, and branched, three 

 or four feet high. The leaves are pretty much like thofe of 

 fmallage, but longer, and more deeply divided. The flowers arc 

 white, in large umbels. It flowers in July and Augufl. It is of 

 a deleterious quality, and in the fpring has been too often ga- 

 thered and eaten by miflake for Smallage, and proved fatal. We 

 have fome dreadful accounts of its poifonous effects in authors *. 

 The root is more poifonous than the leaves ; and it is remarkable, 

 that though it kills both men and horned cattle, horfes eat of it 

 without danger f. 



(y) Slum alterum. Dod. Pempt. 589. Slum olufatri facie. Lob. Icon. p. 208. Ger. 

 emac. p. 256. Raj. Hift. p. 450. Syn. iii. p. 212. Slum aquaticum, fcrliis multifidis 

 longis et ferrau's. Morif. Hift. iii. p. 283. f. 9. t. 5. f. 4. Slum aquaticum foliis rugofis 

 trifidis dentatis. Mor. Umbellif. p. 63. t. 5. Cicuta. Linn. Cliff, p. 100.- Mat. Med. 

 p. 129. Royen. lugdb. p. icg. Cicuta aquatica. Linn. Lapp. p. 103. Cicuta (vlrofo) un- 

 bellis folio cppofitis petiolis marginatis obtufis. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 225. Syft. p. 960. I. Sium 

 pinnis laciniatis, pinnulis trifidis, nervo non foliofo. Hall. Helv. p. 436. 



* Wepferi Wik. Cicutae Aquat. toto Libro. Boerh. Prsele&. Dr. Watfon. Ph. Tr. 1748. 

 Mr. Pulteney. Ph. Tr. Vol. xlix. 



t Gmelin. Flo. Sibir. Par. i. p. 203. 



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