10 OUR POISONOUS PLANTS. 
their troublesome politicians, and if this were not a serious article 
I might perhaps grow facetious, and suggest its use at the present 
time. It is now employed to some extent in medicine. Its name 
“ hemlock ” is an unfortunate one, as it is shared with that most 
elegant spruce, the Abies Canadensis, and I have known nervous 
people to avoid the latter for the sins of its fearful namesake. It 
Fig. 4. 
