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Dropwort. This is very common in ditches about ‘ 
Kendaly in U^ejimoreland^ where they call it Dead- 
tongue f. 
4. (Enanthe Staphylini folio aliqiiatenus accedens^ 
R. 210. Drop wort, with a leaf refembling Wild 
Carrot. 
Eight young lads going a lilhing to a brook near Clonmel^ in 
lrelc7uU meeting with a pared of Hemlock Dropw'ort, and, 
miftaking their roots for thofe of Water Parfnep, eat a great 
quantity of them; about four or five hoars after, going home, 
the ciueft of them, wiio was a>anofl: of man’s ftature, without 
tiie leah p evious diforder, on a fuddeii fdl down backwards, 
and lay kicking I’nd fprawiing upon the ground: His counte- 
nance ibon turned very glialliy; and he foamed at the mouth. 
Soon after four more w ere ieiz’a the fame w ay, and they all died 
before morning. Of Jie ether three one run ftark mad, but 
came to his right reafon again the next morning : Another nad his 
hair and nails fallen off: The lail efcaped wiciiout receiving any 
harm, which perhaps might be occahoned by his fpeedy nin- i 
Tiing two miles, after he law the fu-ft young man fall, together 
with his drinking a very large drnaght of milk, warm from, 
the cow, in the midway. LqwTHoap’j i7v7. Truvf. abt^^ 
/W. 27 , p. 641. i 
V. Such as have fmall channelVd feeds, 
SiuM. Its leaves are unequally pennated ; the pe-r 
tals of the flowers bind ; and its feeds, roundifli, 
gibbous, and channeled. The fpecies are ; 
1. Slum aromaticum Sifon Off. R. 2x1. vulgar 
vel Amomum Germanicum^ 914- Fetrofelinum Ma- 
cedonicum Fuchfti^ G. E. 1016. Baftard Stone-parfley. 
This plant is very much branched but the middle 
lhaft rifes higher than the branches, which are divi- 
ded into many twigs, laden with umbels. 
2. Slum arvenfe five fegetum^ R. 211, Selinum 
Sii foliis.^ G. E. 1018. Selinum fegetale^ P. 932. 
Honewort, or Corn-parfley. 
' 3. Sium latifolium foliis variis.^ R.211. majus . 
latifolium^ G. E. 256. Sium Diofeoridis feu Paftina- 
ca aqiiatica major., P. 1240. Great Water-parfnep. 
Slum five Apium pdufre foliis oblongiSy R. 2 1 1. 
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