508 279. Cicuta. 45. UMBELLIFERiE. PL ex. eal. 



Ditches and river-sides ; perennial ; August. 



Root tuberous; juice yellowish; stem 3 feet high, light 

 green; leaves 2 or 3-pinuate ; uppermost pinnate; umhells 

 liiany rayed, convex. — Poisonous to mankind and kine, but 

 not to horses, sheep, or goats ; the smell being weak in the 

 spring, cows are apt to be killed by it, but afterwards 

 the odour enables them to avoid it. 



XV. 280. PHELLANDRIUM. Pliny. JVater-hemlock. 

 Involucrum 0; involucella many-leaved ; j'Zouer^ pedun- 



cled ; rays fertile; calyx 5-toothed, 2 larger; petals nearly 

 equal, reverse beartshape ; lacinule short, awlshape ; fruit 

 ovate, oblong, crowned ; ukenlum ovate, oblong ; ribs 5, 

 marginal rib much the thickest; dorsal vallecuies 4>, 1-vit- 

 tated ; commissural 2, bowed; spermapodium divided. 



PhellaJidrmm diuaricaimn. Spreadi?ig water-hemlock. 



Leaves tripinnale, cut ; leaflets and lobes divaricating. 



Phellandrium sive Cicutaria quorundam, Rail St/n. 215,1. 



CkHtai'ia palii^tris, Ger. em. 1063,2. 



Cfciitaria pahistris lenuifolia, Park. 933. 



Phellandriimi aquaticiun, Lin. S. P. 366. 



Liguslicuin Fhellandriuiii, Crantz ^usti\200. 



(Enanthe I'lirllandrium, Lamarck Fl. Fr. 432, 



Horsrebane. 



Ditches and rivers; biennial; June and July. 



Root fusiform; fibres verticillate; stem flexuous ; leaves 

 spreading; umhells opposite to the leaves, many-rayed. — 

 Renders horses paralytic, the disease being brought by an 

 insect, the curciilio paraplecticus, which inhabits the stems, 

 and is cured by pigs' dung; leaves discutient in poultices ; 

 seeds used in do.ses of 1 to 3 drms. daily, in agues. 



^.flidtans. Leaves floating, veiy long, transparent. 



PhellandiiiitT) q. J\5iIlefolium nqualicOm Matthioli, Rati Syn, 216, l.* 

 Millefolium aquaticiim, Ga: cm. 821 , 2. 

 .Millefoliiini aquaticiun vulgatJHs, Park. 1256. 

 fValcr-yarron:. If altr-fcnncl. 



XVI. 281. CENANTHE. Theophrastus. JVatcr-dropivort. 

 Involucrum 0, 1 or many-leaved; involucella many-leaved; 



jiowers ped uncled, of the centre sessile, fertile; of the rays 

 barren; cahjx .5-toothcd, teeth connate, 3 larger; petals 

 diff'orni, racliating, 2-lobed; lacinule long, awlshape ;y;7/?7 

 ovate, crowned; ukeniani ovate, semicyiindrical; ribs 5, 

 torulose, barked ; marginal thickest ; dorsal vatleades 4-vit- 

 tated ; commissural 2-vittated, vjttse parallel ; spermapodium 

 divided. 



