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Tho’ the medical Writers have not fufficiently dif- 
tinguifhed thefe Plants, the Botanifts have, Thcfe 
indeed, in their turns, have been as negligent, when 
writing concerning their Ufes *. So that, notwith- 
ftanding Lobel long ago (i) informed the World, 
that the Oenanthe Cicuta facie , in its Effe&s, was 
very like Hemlock; and that thofe, who had eaten it 
in Sallads, were almoft killed by it; this Plant occa- 
fioning Vertigo’s, and other violent Symptoms s yet 
Morrifon, in his Treatife of umbelliferous Plants* 
tho’ very exa£l in the Defcription of the Species of 
which we are now treating, recommends indifcrimi- 
nately the whole Genus, as being temperately warm 
and dry $ that they are ufeful in cleanfing the urinary 
Paflages, 
* Matthiolus , {peaking of the Oenanthe , fays, p. 628. Tut amts 
tamen a ceeteris fihpendulis non multum aijferre. 
(1) Label's Adverjaria were publifhed in the Year 1572. 
§ CICUTiE aquaticae Synonym a. 
Gicuta aquatica. Gefner . Hort. 254. Wepfer . Limed Flor. Lap. 
103. 
Cicuta maxima quorundam. Hort, Eyjlet . 
Cicuta. Linneeh Hort. Cliff, 100. 
Cicutaria. Rivin. Tab. 76. 
Sium alterum. Dodon. Pempt , 579. 
Sium alterum Olufatri facie. Label. 1 c . 208. Ger . Em. 256. Rail 
Hijt . 450. 
Sium Erucae folio. C. B. P. 154. 
Sium majus anguftifolium. Parkin f 1241. 
Sium foliis rugofis trifidis, feu multifidis dentatis. Morrif, Umbel!. 
63. Tab. 5. 
Sium, pinnis laciniatis, pinnulis thfidis, nervo non foliofo. Haller , 
Helv . 436. 
