PENTANDRIA. 317 



panied, as Jussieu observes, by the habit of a Thistle. 

 Lagoecia is justly referred to this natural order by 

 the same writer, though it has only a solitary seed 

 and style. 



The Umbelliferx are mostly herbaceous; the 

 qualities of such as grow on dry ground are aro- 

 matic, while the aquatic species are among the most 

 deadly of poisons ; according to the remark of 

 Linnaeus, who detected the cause of a dreadful dis- 

 order among horned cattle in Lapland*, in their 

 eating young leaves of Clcuta virosa, .Ertgl. Bot. 

 /. 479, under water. 



Botanists in general shrink from the study of the 

 Umbettifcrte, nor have these plants much beauty in 

 the eyes of amateurs ; but they will repay the 

 trouble of a careful observation. The late M. Cusson 

 of Montpellier bestowed more pains upon them than 

 any other botanist has ever done ; but the world 

 has, as yet, been favoured with only a part of his 

 remarks. His labours met with a most ungrateful 

 check, in the un kindness, and still more mortifying 

 stupidity, of his wife, who, during his absence from 

 home, is recorded to have destroyed his whole her- 

 barium, scraping off the dried specimens, for the 

 sake of the paper on which they were pasted ! 



3. Trigyma is illustrated by the Elder, the Sumach 

 or Rhus, Viburnum, &c., also Corrigiola, EngL 



* See his Tour in Lapland, z;. 2. 136. 



