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adds, that Lobel has not been exa£t in his Defcription. 
To which I anfwer, that Label's Defcription of the 
Oenanthe is very cxad, for the Time he liv’d \ and 
it is very evident, that Wepfer never faw this Oenan- 
the 5 which Plant, I believe, is not found in Ger- 
many. Wepfer like wife, in the Ephemerides Nature 
Curioforum *, is under the fame Miftake; and tells 
you, that Stalpart van der Wiel differs from him 5 
and calls the Plant, mention'd in his Obfervations, 
Oenanthe , as Lobel dots: And tho‘ Stalpart has 
given Figures of the Plant accurate enough for a com- 
mon Obfcrver to diftinguifn the Plants by, and tho' 
nine Years lapfed between the Publication of his 
Book de Clout a and his Obfervations in the Ephe- 
merides, he was ftill in the fame Error 5 and believed 
the Oenanthe of Label , and his Cictita aquatica, as 
well as that of Gefner , to be the fame poifonous 
Plant. The accurate Hoffman \ alfo, when treating 
of 
* Ephemerid. Nat. curiof. Dec. 11. Ann. v-i. Obf. 116. 
f F red. Hoffman. Medicin. rational, fyftematic. Tom. II. p. 174. 
"Edit in Jpto. £< Ex vegetabilium regno inter preefentiffma venena 
£c referri debeat cicuta vera, napellus five' aconi turn ccernleum , folanum 
tc furiofum , hyojcyamus , ac datura ." If here the Epithet vera to 
Cicuta is underftood only to point out the poifonous Sort of Hem- 
lock, there are no lefs than three Species of this Clafs, which, from 
their being known certainly to be poifonous, may lay Claim thereto ; 
viz. Cicuta major of Cafpar Bauhin , Cicuta aquatica of Wepfer , and 
Oena?ithe cicuta facie of Lobel. But, it is very probable, the two 
lad were unknown to the Ancients. The Defcription of Diofcorides, 
lib. iv. cap. 79, which is the only one to be met with among the 
Greek Writers, and that but obfeure, relates, in my Opinion to the 
firft of thefe. Kuv&ov Kctuhov dvimi yovardSn uf pd^eyv ffiyav. 
4>uAa a Si vdfiwi tfjupifi, snvcoTzqa, Si ^ (Zci$vog[jul' in Si 
dTrotujetc, GiudStct, elvdoc v7roh<d>Kor dvica, 
? dj<,'(,7i£y\r pita, xol a»i Hy & PetSc-Tu. Pliny’s Defcription, lib. xxv. 
cap. ult. is taken from this of Diofcorides. 
