hor do I know where he got the word 
'Comum-, unlefs from Pliny, who, I 
think, mentions it as the name of a 
town in Phrygia. This our tlemlock 
was certainly the Cicuta of which the 
pipe prefented by Menalcas to the 
(hepherd Mopfis, was made. 
Heae te nosfragili donalimus ante cicuta. 
I myfelf, when a boy, have often made 
pipes of it : they had but few notes indeed, 
but the tone was not unlike that of the 
tlariohet. 
This Conium macalatum is diftinguifhed 
from other plants of the fame Clafs and 
Order, by the iiwolucella extending only half 
round the fpoke on which it ftands, and 
confiding general!^ of three leaves, or ra- 
ther of 3 divifions of one leaf 5 and by the 
fliape of the feed, which is nearly fpherical, 
with 5 ftrise, and notched at each end. There 
are fouxjpectes of this genus, but the macula- 
turn only is indigenous in Britain. You may 
eafily know it by the brown fpots on the 
flem, and the gloffy dark-green leaves. You 
fee it is a tall plant: this fpecimen meafures, 
at lead, 5 feet. 
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