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36. Hemlock-Dropivort (z). In a maiihy place, by a fpring, in 

 St. John-lee bank, near Hexham. The root confifts of a number oi : 

 tuberous or knobby fibres, full of a yellowifli acrid juice. The 

 ftalk is round, ftriated, and branched. Tlie leaves are large, 

 pinnated, and indented at the edges. The flowers are white, in 

 umbels. It flowers in June and July. It is a deleterious plant, 

 and on its firft coming up in the fpring has been often gathered 

 and eaten through miflake for the ferrated- leaved Water-Parfnep (a) 

 as a fallad by incautious people, who have died in lefs than four 

 hours by its virulent poifon, though not immediately perceived ; 

 of which there are feveral inftances in the Philofophical Tranfac- 

 tions, and other literary, periodical works *. 



57. The great Marfh-Valerian (b), the root of which is ufcd 

 as a nervine, and accounted one of the bed of all the nervous 



fimplcs, 



(z) Oenanthe cicutre facie, fucco virofo crocante. Label, adv. p. 326. Oenanthe cicutre 

 facie LOBELLII. Park. Theatr. p. 894. Raj. Hift. i. p. 4 1.1. Syn. iii. p. 210. Oenanihe fucco 

 virofo, cicutae facie, LOBELII. /. B. iii. p. 193. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 288. Oenanthe Chas- 

 rophylli foliis. C. B. Pin. p. 162; Town. Inft. 313. Boerb. Ind. A. p. 51. Oenanthe apii 

 folio maxima, fucco virofo, cicutse facie. Mor. Umb. p. 16. Oenanthe petrofelini folio, 

 venenofa. Dal. Pharm. p. 123-24. Oenanthe foliis omnibus muhifidis obtufis fubxquaiibus. 

 Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 99. Flo. Suec. n. 237. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 740. 



(a) Slum DIOSCORIDIS, five Paftiuaca aquatica major. Park. Theatr. p. 1240. Sium 

 majus latifolium. Ger. emac. p. 256. Raj. Hift. i. p. 4^3. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 282. Sium 

 aquaticum primum, latifolium majus. Mor. Umb. p. 15. Sium maximum latifoliurn. I. B. 

 iii. p. 175. Sium latifolium. C. B. Pin. p. 154. Town. Inft. p. 308. Rup. Flo Jen. p. 

 230. Sium Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 125. Sium foliis pinnatis, umbella terir inatricc. Linn. 

 Hort. Cliff, p. 98. Sp. PI. p. 251. Flo. Succ. n. 235. Rqen. lugdb. p. 104. Hall. Helv. 

 p. 435. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 337. 



* Ph. Tr. No. 480. p. 227. and No. 1 14. p. 856. 



(b) Phu. DIOSCORIDIS. Column. Phyt. p. 92, &c. t. 26. Icon pulcbra. Ecphr. ejufd. i. 

 p 210. Valeriana fylvcftris. i. Cluf. Hift. p. Ix. beue. Did. Pcmpt. p. 349. purg. p. 87. 



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