Garrick in Benedick was not a jot fuperior 
to Tafwell in Dogberry. With what ge- 
nuine appearance of ftupid fimplicity he 
exclaimed that he were here to write me 
down an afil 
But to return to our Cornus. It is cer- 
tain, that the Romans made their fpears of 
Myrtle and Cornel, though, from a paffage 
quoted by Martyn in his Commentary on 
the Georgics, it appears that Pliny preferred 
the Afh. 
Conl- That tall umbelliferous plant, with 
* m * dark-green gloffy fubdi vided leaves, and 
white flowers, claims your particular 
attention. It is the famous Hemlock, 
which on the credit of Profeflbr Storck 
of Vienna, was fuppofed an infallible 
cure for cancers. The number of 
Jlamina and pijlilla declare it to be of 
the Clafs and Order Pentandria, Digy- 
xia. Its former generic name was C/- 
cuta> but Linnasus chufes to call it Co- 
nium^ and maculatum, from the fpots on 
the ftem. Why this Cicuta of all other 
botanifts, muft have its ancient name 
taken from it and transferred to a dif- 
ferent plant, I do not comprehend: 
nor 
