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3. Eryngium Linn. Eryngo. (Tab. I. f. 3.) 
Fruit ovate, clothed with chaffy scales or bristles. Cal.-teeth 
leafy. Pet. erect, oblong, with long inflected points. (Invo- 
lucre of many leaves. -Flowers in a compact head upon a scaly 
receptacle.) — Name: tpvyyiov of Dioscorides. 
].E. maritimum L. (Sea E. or Sea-Holly ); radical leaves 
roundish plaited spinous stalked, upper ones lobed palmate 
amplexicaul rigid, involucral leaves 3-lobed longer than the 
heads, scales of the receptacle 3-cleft. E. B. t. 718. 
Sandy shores of England, frequent. Scotland, chiefly on the west 
coast. I/.. 7, 8. — Whole plant stiff and rigid, glaucous. Leaves 
and involucres beautifully veiny. Flowers blue, in dense heads, not 
having at first sight the appearance of those of this Order. The roots 
are well tasted, when candied, and have been considered stimulating 
and restorative. 
2. E. campestre L. ( Field E .) ; radical leaves subternate, 
lobes pinnatifid, cauline ones bipinnatifid amplexicaul all with 
spinous teeth, involucral leaves lanceolate spinous longer than 
the heads, scales of the receptacle undivided. E. B. t. 57. 
Very rare. Devil’s Point, Stonehouse, near Plymouth (now nearly 
extinct); near Daventry (extinct); at the eastern extremity of Jar- 
row ballast-hills, and at Salt-meadows, near Friar’s Goose, on the 
Durham side of the Tyne. Sandy fields near Lismore, Waterford, 
Ireland. fl. 7, 8. — Originally introduced with ballast, but now 
naturalised. 
II. Umbels usually compound or perfect. (Gen. 4 — 40.) 
A. Fruit neither prickly nor beaked , laterally compressed. 
Albumen solid. (Gen. 4 — 15.) 
4. Cicuta Linn. Water-Hemlock. (Tab. I. f. 4.) 
Fruit of 2 almost globose lobes or carpels , with 5 broad flat- 
tened ribs, and evident single vittce between them. Cal.-teeth 
leafy. Pet. obcordate. (Partial involucre of many leaves.) — 
Name: cicuta was a term given by the Latins to those spaces 
between the joints of a reed of which their pipes were made ; 
and the stem of this plant is equally formed of hollow inter- 
nodes. 
1. C. virusa L. ( Coivbane , or IP.) ; fibres of the root slender. 
E. B. t. 479. 
In ditches, and about the margins of rivers and lakes in England 
and the Lowlands of Scotland; but not very frequent. %. 6 — 8. — 
Stem 3 — 4 feet high, hollow, branched. Leaves biternate, the radical 
ones pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, serrate. Umbels pedunculate A 
deadly poison to man : cattle have been said, perhaps erroneously, to 
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