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Barbigeras pecudes, homini-que eft acre venenum. 

 Lucret. 



Linnaeus afllires us that he has known cattle to die 

 by eating the roots •, and V/ehfer informs us, 

 that one ounce of it threw a dog into convul- 

 fions, and two ounces kilPd it : he mentions 

 alfo its direful effeds upon leveral other anin^als. 

 And Schwenke^ a Genncin writer, gives an account 

 of four boys, who had the misfortune to eat of 

 it ; three of whom died in convulftons. Strong 

 emetics, adminifter'd as foon as pofTible, are the 

 moft approv'd antidote 



iETHUSA. Gen. PL ^55^ 

 Involucella dimidiata, triphylla, pendula. Fru5ius 

 ftriatus. 

 (ynapiumi, MTHUSA. Sp. pL '^6-j. (Ger. Em. 1063./. i. 

 Moris, bift. / 9. /. 7. /. 2. ordinis fnperioris ad 

 Jinijirmn.) 

 Lefler Hemlock, or Fool's Parfley. AngUs. 

 It is a common weed in gardens. O. VIIL 

 The ftalk is channeled : the leaves doubly and 

 triply pinnated : the lacinas acute, and deeply 

 ferrated : of a lliining dark-green color. 

 The plant, when bruiftd, has a ftrong virulent 

 fmell, fomething like garlick. It's qualities 

 correfpcnd to the fmell, for it is of a poifonous 

 nature, producing flupors, vomitings and con- 

 vulfions. Cooks therefore cannot be too care- 

 ful that they miftake it not for parfle^', which it 

 a good deal refembles. 



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