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the North Country People, where lie fays it chiefly 
H grows/' Mr. Ray , in his Hiftory, though he has 
Aanfcribed Lobet's Defcription, in which its venom- 
ous Qualities are taken notice of, leaves this Matter 
to further Examination* other Botanifts being of a 
different Opinion. 
The Inftipces mention'd in thefe Papers are bur 
too fufficient Teftimonies of the malignant Proper- 
ties of this Plant; but Mr. Miller , a worthy Mem- 
ber of this Society, informed me further, that, not 
many Years fince, a whole Family were poifoned 
therewith at Batterfea . As this Plant is frequent fb 
near us, and as its Appearance and Smell are fo like 
Smallage and Celeri , we are greatly interefted that 
the Knowlege of it be extended as much as pollible* 
As I find no good Reprefentation thereof among 
Authors, and as a good Figure conveys a ftronger 
Idea to the Generality of Readers than the mod ac- 
curate Defcription, I have procured that admirable 
Artift Mr. Ehret to draw not only this Plant, but alfo 
the Cicuta aquatica of Wepfer 5 that they may be the 
more eafily known from all Plants, and diftinguifhed 
from each other by their being both feen at one 
View. From thefe Drawings the ingenious Mr. 
Mynde has very accurately engraved the Figures in 
Tab. IH. IV. and V. hereunto annexed. 
P. S. I am informed by Mr. Ehret , that, in drawing 
the Oenanthe , which he has executed with his ufual 
Elegance and Accuracy, he was obliged to have a 
Quantity of it placed before him upon a Table 5 
when, the Room being fmali, the Effluvia there- 
of cauftd in him an univerfal Uneafinefs, with a 
H h Vertigo j 
