C 823 ] 
This plalit has been in great repute in Germany, 
and particularly Heifler has given great commen- 
dations of it. It is ufed externally for di (cuffing 
tumours of the fchirrous kind, and in cataplafms 
for cancers and gangrenes. It has the character 
of being poifonous ; and it has been obferved, 
that if horfes eat of it, it will occaflon a paraple- 
gia : on the other hand, the cows are fond of it, 
and eat it without any ill confequence, Amasn. 
Acad. Vol. 1 . p. 361.418. 
Cicuta, Gen. Plant. N°.3i6. 
Cicuta umbellis folio oppolids, petiolis marginatis ob- 
tulis. Sp. Plant. 25-5. 
Siam pinnis laciniatis, pinnulis trifidis, nervo non 
foliofo. Hall. Helv. p.436. 
Sium alteram olufatri facie Lob. Icon. 208. Raii 
Syn. p. 2 12. Long-leaved Water Hemlock. 
About the banks of rivers and ponds, and in 
marfhes, flowering in July and Auguft. 
This is not common with us : I have only ob- 
ferved it in the pool in Nottingham park, efpecially 
at the upper end towards the rock-holes. 
Many and dreadful are the indances, of the fa- 
tal effeds of this plant ; as not only Wepfer’s trea- 
tife, but many other papers in the various perio- 
dical productions of Europe, evidently prove. Dr. 
Haller refers to feveral, Enum. Stirp. Helv. p. 436. 
Seealfo the Philofophical Tranfadions, N°. 480. 
When Linnasus was at Tornoa, upon the Lap- 
land expedition, he difcovered to the inhabitants, 
that the great dedrudion of their horned cattle, 
in the fpring, when they were fird turned out, 
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