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soon felt sick at the stomach, and after drinking some water vomited the whole 
poisonous meal, as his brother afterward stated. He become worse, lay down 
on the grass, and his sister was called, who twice gave him a small portion of 
milk, freshly drawn from pasture cows. But the third time the patient was no 
longer able to take the tin can used for milk-pan; unconsciousness and lockjaw 
had set in. He was carried home and died shortly after, although a physician 
was promptly called. The death occurred within seven hours after eating the 
plant. 
The writer of this went some days afterward to the place and learned the 
facts as stated here, and identified the deadly poisonous plant as water-hem- 
lock (Cicuta maculata, L.). 
2. Pastinaca sativa, L., one of our most appreciated vegetables, has a bad 
record as “wild parsnip,” growing frequently along ditches, roads, an 
In the year 1878, an employe of the Northern Wisconsin Railroad died from 
eating parsnips, rooted up by himself from a ditch. His wife, who refused the 
meal, preserved her life, but his two children and the hired girl could only be 
saved from death by a physician’s aid. I was told of this by an acquaintance 
of the family, and it was also so stated by the newspapers. Two other fatal acct 
dents, near Depere, Brown county, Wisconsin, were reported in the papers about 
two years ago. by which several persons lost their lives from eating wild pa 
nips. The matter is important, and serious enough to call especial attention 
to this plant and its effects.—J. H. Scnurerre, Geen Bay, Wis. 
Galium verum in New York.—Ii Dr. Gray’s mention, in the Manual, of 
Essex County, Massachusetts, as the only station of Galiwm verum, except its 
occasional occurrence among ballast plants, be not supplemented by later re- 
ports, it may be of some interest that the plant is well established here. aks 
years ago I found a single tuft on the farm of Mrs. Phoenix Bockée, near The 
Separate,” in the township of Stanford, Dutchess county, New York ie 
although limited to a single field, a pasture with thin limestone soil, it grows 
there in great masses of a rod or more in diameter, filling all the surrounding 
air with its heavy fragrance.—Martna Bockte Friint, Amenia, 
Littorella lacustris, L.—A new locality for Littorella lacustris is worth Fe 
cording. Macoun’s Catalogue gives three stations, ove in Ontario, one 1? a 
Scotia, and one on Lake Champlain. I find it along the southern shore ° 
Lake Utopia, Saint George, New Brunswick, where it flowers when the water ® 
lowest, about the middle of August.—J. Vroom, St. Stephen, N. B. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Rey. FE. L. Greenr has 
any at the Uni- 
versity of California. 
been appointed instructor in bot 
; : oh will 
A BOTANIC GARDEN has been established at Reikjavik, Iceland, which 
undoubtedly introduce many valuable economic plants to the attention 
islanders. 
of the 
