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fond by the Cicuta aquatic a ; where feme of them, 
who had eaten the Roots of this Plant at the fame 
time, flood and affifted their Friends, till they died 
of Convulfions, without feeling themfelves any wife 
difordefd ; and afterwards, in their turns, died in the 
fame Manner. Others were violently affefted by it, 
as foon almoft as they had eaten it. Confer Wep- 
fers Hiftory with the {a) German Ephemerides. Lin - 
nreus mentions, in the ( h ) Flora Lapponica , the great 
Slaughter, and miferable Manner, in which the horned 
Cattle died, from eating this Plant at Torncea . This 
Author alfo, in his Flora Suecica , acquaints us (not- 
withftanding Rivinus and Mappus have aflerted, that 
the homed Cattle not only eat this Plant without 
Detriment, but are very fond of it) that three Oxen 
were killed by eating the Roots thereof Fie was 
fully convinced that they were the Roots of the Cicuta 
aquatica $ becaufe, foon after this Accident, the 
Country People brought him fome of them, defiring 
to know to what Plant they belonged. He there- 
upon planted them in the academical Garden, and was 
fully fatisfied what they were. 
Wepfer has confounded his Cicuta aquatica , in the 
Hiftory thereof §, with the poifonous Oenanthe of 
Lobel 5 where he fays, that Lobel has deferibed the 
Cicuta aquaticauntettlAZ Name of Oenanthe Cicutre 
facie* fucco virofo crocante 5 and mentions, that it is 
not very frequent, but in the Northern Parts of Eng- 
landty the Sides of Rivers, and in watry Places : He 
adds, 
* Ephemerid . Natur. Curiofor. Dec. 2, Ann. 6. Obf. 1 16* 
'I* Sec Elor. Ldppon» p, 72. ,§ Cicutc r u^uut* hiftpria ct 470x32, ,p, 
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