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and when it was no uncommon thing for an hun- 
dred of them to perifih, was intirely owing to this 
plant, which is very common in their paftures. 
Flor. Lappon. p. 72. The Flora Suecica confirms 
the fame effects upon the horned cattle, p. 84. 
Dr. Gmelin, who obferved it in the marffies al- 
moll all over Ruffia and Sibiria, tells us, that 
the people there univerfally affirm, that the 
horfes eat it without any fnbfequent ill confe- 
quence ; but that it infallibly kills the horned 
cattle, and that they fwell very much before they 
die; which fymptom Linnaeus had remarked in 
thofe that perifhed at Tornoa. The inhabitants 
fay likewife, that the root of the plant is abun- 
dantly more poil'onous than the leaves. See Flora 
Sibirica, Vol. I. p. 203. 
Pimpinella, Gen. Plantar. N°. 328. 
Pimpinella faxifraga major umbella Candida, C. B. 
pin. 1 f9. 
Pimpinella faxifraga Ger. em. 1044. Raii Syn. 
P- 2 iT 
Tragofelinum pinnis femilobatis, circumferratis. 
Hall. Helv.428. Great Burnet Saxifrage. 
In woods, and among buffies in ffiady places, 
flowering in July. In Hallinghall Wood near 
Loughborough. In Stocking Wood, and the hedges 
adjoining, near Leicefter. 
The Pimpinella faxifraga minor is very com- 
mon with us in dry paftures, and upon banks, 
about hedges 
Linnaeus, Royen, and Ludwig, join thefe two 
fpecies together, on fuppofition that they do not 
differ 
