PLex.cah 45. UMBELLIFER^. 285. Trinia. 513 



Limestone rocks ; perennial; May and June. 

 Root fleshy; stem 9 inches high, branchy, purplish; 

 leaves glaucous, smooth ; vmhells many, panicled, upright. 



XXI. 286. iETHUSA. Linneeus. Fools-parsley. 

 Involucrum 0; involucella halved, 3-leaved, pendulous; 



petals unequal, nicked, 2-lobed, with a hollow on each 

 side; lacinule short, linear, hhxnt', fruit rather globular, 

 crowned; akenium ovate, barked, 5-jugated; marginal jugee 

 acute, membranaceous; vallecules 4j acute, 1-vittated; com- 

 missure quite flat, 2-vittated ; spermopodium hairlike, 2-cut. 



^thusa tenuifolla. Fine-leaved fools-parsley. 



Leaves bipinnate; leaflets pinnatifid; involucella linear, 

 lanceolate, longer than the umbellules; commissural vittcB 

 distant at the base. 



Cicuta quae Cicularia teniiifolia, Rail Syn, 215,2. 

 Cicutaria tenuifolla, Ger. em. 1063, 1. 

 Cicuta minor, sive fatua, Park. 933. 

 Cynapium, Rivinus Pentap. 75. 

 .ffilhusa Cynapium, Lin. S. P. 367. 

 Coriandrum cynapium, Crantz Austr. 111. 

 Lesser hemlock. Dog's parsley. 



Gardens and fields; annual; July and August. 



Root fusiform ; stem slightly branched ; leaves dark green, 

 bald; umbells terminal or opposite to the leaves; peduncles 

 long. — When eaten in mistake for parsley it occasions vo- 

 miting, which may be stopped by a very large dose of 

 brandy : deleterious to geese. 



XXII. 287. CONIUM. Theophrastus. Hemlock. 

 Involucrum 2 to 5-leaved ; involucella 3-leaved, 1-rowed, 



connate ; petals nearly equal, reverse heartshape, nicked ; 

 lacinule short, blunt; fruit ovate, globose, crowned; ake- 

 nium ovate, 5-ribbed; ribs waved, crenulate; vallecules and 

 commissures many-streaked ; vittse ; spermopodium bristle- 

 like, 2-cut. 



Conium macutatum. ^ .Spotted hemlock. 



Root fusiform ; stem spotted, smooth ; upper leaves decom- 

 pound ; leaflets pinnatifid ; lacinule linear, lanceolate, mu- 

 cronate. * 



Cicuta, Rail Syn. 215, 1 ; Ger. em. 1061, 1. 

 Cicuta vulgaris major, Park, 933. 

 Conium maculatam, Lin. S. P. 349. 

 Cicuta maculata, Lamarck Fl. Fr. 104. 

 Cicuta major, De Candolle Fl. Gall. 3494. 

 Hemlock, Homlock. Kex. Herb bennet. 

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