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his v/ork without any more returns of his gid- 

 dinefs. 



I have {^cn a large fpoonful of the juice of tliis 

 pLint given to a dog, which made him very fick 

 and ftupid, but in about an hour he recovered : 

 and I have fcen a goat eat it with impunity. 



To thofe of the human kind, who have been fo 

 unfortunate as to eat any part of this plant, a 

 vomit is the moil approved remedy. 



PHELLANDRIUM. Gen. PL 3^3. 



Flofculi difci minores. Vruclus ovatus, l^vis, coro- 



nat'js perianthio & piiiillo 



■aquaticum PHELLANDRIUM foliorum ramificationibus 



divaricatis. Sp, pi, 366. (Ger, Em. 1063. / 2. 



Moris, hift.f. 9. /. 7./. 7. ordtnis fuperioris. Pet, 



herb. t. 28. /. 4J 



Water Heriilock. Angus . 



In ditches and ponds, but not common. $ . VIIL 



The Italk is remarkably thick and dichotomous, 

 and grows in the v/ater : the leaves are triply 

 pinnated, the pinnuL-e fefiile and ferrated. 



Linnaus inform>s us that the horfes in Sweden., by 

 eating of this plant are feiz'd with a kind of 

 palfey, which he fuppofes is brought upon them 

 not \o much by any noxious qualifes in the 

 plant itfelf, as by a certain infedt which breeds 

 in the fialks, call'd by him, for that reafon^ 

 Cur cull parapleEticus. Syji. Nat, 610. Ihe 

 'Swedes give fv;ine's dung for the curt. 



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