1^4 PENTANDRIA DlGYNlA. 



CICUTA. Gen. PL 354. 

 Fru^iLs fubovatus, fulcatiis. 

 *viroja I. CICUTA umbellis oppofitifoliis, petiolis marg*H 

 natis obtufis. 6^. -pL 2,^G. {Oed. Ban. t. 208. Ger. 

 Em. 256./. 4. Moris, hiji. /. 9. /. 5. /. 4. Fet. 

 herb, t. 28. /. i. Moris. Umbel. /. 5- Folium 

 egregium Webfer in libello de bicuta aquatica, t. i. 

 p, 4.; 



Lofig-leav'd "Water Hemlock. Anglis. 



It grows by the fides of lakes, but happily for us 

 very rare. Dr. Parfcns difcovered it on the fide 

 oi Loch-End. %. VJI. 



The roots are large and hollow, divided into cells 

 by tranfverfe diaphragms : the ftalk round and 

 Mular : the leaves pinnated with fmgle, double 

 and triple foliola, each foliolum fpear-fnap'd, 

 and finely ferrated •, the ferratures white at the 

 tips : the umbel grows open, and is red at the 

 bafe : the partial involucra confifl each of many 



/ fnort fetaceous leaves : the fiovv^ers are white, all 

 hermaphrodite, and uniform: the petals heart- 

 ihap'd and inliex'd : the feeds oval, and furrow'd 

 v/ith three prominent meridians. 



Qi the few vegetable poifons in Great-Britain this, 

 is one of the principal. It is dellrudtive not 

 only to man, but, according to moil writers on 

 the fubjed, to aimoii every beafl, except per- 

 haps the goat, which is faid to devour it as a 

 grateful food. 

 — *- videre licet pinguefcere fiepe cicuta. 



Barbigeras 



