508 279. Cicuta. 45. UMBELLIFERiE. Pi. ex. cah 
Ditches and river-sides; perennial; August. 
Root tuberous; juice yellowish; stem 3 feet high, light 
green; leaves 2 or 3-pinnate ; uppermost pinnate; umbells 
many rayed, convex.-- Poisonous to mankind and kine, but 
not to horses, sheep, or goats ; the smell being weak in the 
spring, cows are apt to be killed by it, but afterwards 
the odour enables them to avoid it. 
XV. 280. PHELLANBRXUM. Pliny. Water-hemlock. 
Involucrum 0 ; involacella many-leaved ; flowers pedun- 
cled ; rays fertile; calyx 5-toothed, 2 larger; petals nearly 
equal, reverse heartshape; lacinule short, awlshape; fruit 
ovate, oblong, crowned ; akenium ovate, oblong ; ribs 5, 
marginal rib much the thickest; dorsal vallecules 4, 1 -vit- 
iated ; commissural 2, bowed ; spermapodium divided. 
Phellandrium divaricatum. Spreading water-hemlock. 
Leaves tripinnate, cut ; leaflets and lobes divaricating. 
Phellandrium sive Cicutaria quorundam, Rail Syn. 215, 1. 
Cicutaria phiu tris, Gcr. em. 1063,2. f 
Cicutaria pahistris tenuifolia, Park. 933. 
Phellandrium aquaticum, Lin. S. P. 366, 
Idgusticum Phellandrium, Crqntz Austr. 200. 
(Enanthe Phellandrium, Lamarck FI. Fr. 432. 
Horsebane. 
Ditches and rivers; biennial; June and July. 
Root fusiform ; fibres verticillate ; stem flexuous ; leaves 
spreading; umbells opposite to the leaves, marty-rayed.-— 
Renders horses paralytic, the disease being brought by an 
insect, the curculio paraplecticus, which inhabits the stems, 
and is cured by pigs’ dung; leaves discutient in poultices; 
seeds used in doses of 1 to 3 drms. daily, in agues. 
$. finitans. Leaves floating, very long, transparent. 
Phellandrium q. Millefolium aquaticum Matthioli, Rati Syn . 216, 1 .* 
Millefolium aquaticum, Gcr. em . 827, 2, 
Millefo’ium aquaticum vulgatius, Park. 1256. 
Water-yarrow . Water -fennel. 
XVI. 281. CENAXTIIE. Theophrastus. Water-dr opwort . 
Involucrum 0, 1 or many-leaved ; involucella many-leaved ; 
flowers peduncled, of the centre sessile, fertile ; of the rays 
barren; calyx 5-toothed, teeth connate, 3 larger; petals 
difform, radiating, 2-lobed ; lacinule long, awlshape; fruit 
ovate, crowned ; akenium ovate, semicylindrical ; ribs 5, 
torulose, barked ; marginal thickest; dorsal vallecules 4-vit- 
lated ; commissural 2-vittated, vittae parallel ; spermapodium 
divided. 
