80 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. (Enanthe. 



Stem, with spear-shaped seg'ments. E. B. 1192. C. 

 1. 18. Cicutaria tenuifoUa. G. E. 1063. 



Gardens, cultivated fields . 



x\n. July. 



Herb dark, lurid green, glossy, fetid, poisonous. Ls. twice winged, 



with wing-cleft leaflets. 



Occasions sickness : sometimes carelessly mistaken for Garden 

 Parsley. It is poisonous to geese. Linn. Fl. Suec. 



Cows, horses, sheep, goats, and swine eat it. With. 



CONFUM.' Hemlock. 



C. maculatwn. Common H. Stem pohshed and spotted* 

 much branched. E. B. 1191. C. 1. 17- Cicuta. 

 G. E. 1061. 



Hedges, waste ground near toivns and villages. 



Bien. July. 



Three to lour feet. Ls. large, repeatedly compound ; deep-sMning 



green. FL white. 



Herb fetid, narcotic, sedative ; much used in the form of extract 

 for lowering the pulse in acute inflammatory disorders ; and still 

 more celebrated for relieving scrofulous and cancerous maladies. 

 Stu. 



The extract an uncertain preparation, whence powder preferred 

 by some : dose fifteen to twenty five grains twice or thrice a day. 

 Extr. particularly useful in hooping-cough. See Butter. 



(ENANTHE. Water-dropwort. 



CE. Jistulosa. Common IF'ater-dr. Root sending forth 

 runners. Stem-leaves winged, cylindrical, tubular. 

 General bracteas mostly wanting. E. B. 363. Fili- 

 pendula aquatica. G. E. 1060. 



Ditches, ponds. 



Per. June. 



Root tuberous. Umb. general rays from three to seven, or eight. 

 Stem creeping under water; above water erect, almost naked. 

 Root leaves twice winged. Umbels, when ripe, resemble small 

 prickly spheres. First umb. divided into three, the rest into 

 more divisions. 



CE. peucedanifolia. Sulphur-wort. Water-dr. Leaf- 

 lets all linear. General bracteas none. Knobs of the 

 root stalkless, elliptical. E. B. 348. Filipendula 

 angustifolia. G. E. 1059. 



' Koneion, Gr. 



