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had been eaten : He was fo kind alfo as to attend 
me with thefe Soldiers into the Fields, to fhew me 
the Plants growing. They firft gather’d me the Cicu - 
taria vulgaris of John Bauhin , or Cow-weed; then, 
the Myrrhis fylvejlris feminibus afperis of Cafpar 
Bauhin, orfmall Hemlock-Chervil. They then gave 
me fome Cicuta major , and, fmelling it, immedi- 
ately faid, That this was the Herb that kill’d their 
Comrades; which 1 then had no Reafon to doubt 
of, as of the two former Plants : The firft grows almoft 
under every Hedge, and is eaten by the Cows, and 
the other is frequently given to tame Rabbets for 
Food ; whereas Cattle conftantly refufe to eat Hem- 
lock. 
Before I was thus fatisfied, I imagined this Acci- 
dent to have proceeded rather from Lobel’s Oenan- 
the\ thinking, that as that Plant grows near the 
Sides of Rivers, thefe Soldiers might have gather’d 
it by the River Lee , which runs by the Town, and 
eaten it for Smallage, to which it has fome Refem- 
blance. 
It is now known, that the Cicuta major , the Ci- 
cuta aquatica , and the Oenanthe of Lobel, are cer- 
tain Poifons; but there are two others of the fame 
Clafs, growing common in England, and not much 
unlike thefe in Smell and other Circumftances, ve- 
hemently to be fufpefled : The one is the Cicutaria 
tenuifolia of Mr. Ray , which grows frequently in 
wafte Places, and in Gardens among Pot-herbs, of 
which De la Champ gives fome Account of its Ma- 
lignancy ; the other is the Cicutaria palu/lris of 
Lobel and Tabermemontanus , or Bhellandrium of 
Eodonaus, which grows in muddy Ditches and 
Pond’s^ 
I don’t 
