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8. AIGOPO’DIUM, L. Goart’s-Foor. 
eek pint a goat, and podion, a little foot. 
Fruit oblong, hitwtied the conical bases of the deflexed avi 
Carpels with 5 slender ridge without oil-tubes. Leaves ternate or bi- 
ternate with broad pointed serrated leaflets. Involucres ant tnvolucels 
1. £. Podagra’ria, L. Root perennial, creeping «= 
extensively ; ; stems robust, my furoves, 
glabrous ; leaflets ovate or lanceo 
unequally toothed ; the lower fete on ie on tie 
petioles ; the upper merely 3-cleft ; umbels many- 
; ite. 
rayed ; petals w. 
Goat’s-foot. Goat-weed. Herb Gerarde. 
Stem about a foot and a half high. Fruit very seldom 
perfected. 
Obs. This, which is considered an sagt ng 
ly troublesome ae in England, , 
pearance in some parts of Poiaytiena, gad — to be a nuisance 
not wag ahated It has hitherto resisted all attempts to get rid of it; 
1 System of Gardening, ride says that “ being a great 
creeper ite cannot be es into gardens, f or after it gets — it is next 
to _impane e to — te it again.” The re o be used in 
me manner as Parsley, which accounts for Don’s mrt ning against 
evince it. ‘Such an invader should be carefully watched and its 
_— arres 
9. ZETHU’SA, L. Foor’s Parstey. 
(Greek, aitho, to burn ; on account of its acrid qualities.] 
= teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate globose ; the eo each with 5 
Bite shag ridges : intervals with single oil-tubes. 
erect poisonous herbs with 2-8 te ternately compound and many cleft 
leaves. Involucre none ; involucels 1 —3 leaved. Tee rs white. 
1. £4. Cyna’pium, L. Segments of the leaves 
wedge lanoodat ; involucels 3-leaved, long 
= Ps 
Stem 1 - = Reg! high, bewmsah not spotted. Leaves with 
ultimate lobes line eolate. U7 termina] and 
nearly as broad as long, with very prominent ribs. 
Cultivated grounds and waste places. Native of 
Europe. auly— on ete corete 
This poisonous plant is naturalized 
in New ew England ; it somewhat ecg the 
roe Hemlock, from which it is distin- 
he: ‘Tot. Fruit of the Goatsfoot Egopodium Podagraria 102. A section. 
Fie. 1 Lae ite mt are Tok ch petal with 
the point bent inwar 
