5 5 o THE SWEDISH PAN. 
Long-leaved water hemlock will kill a cow, 
whereas the goat browfes upon it greedily. 
Monks-hood kills a goat , but will not hurt a 
horfe \ and the hitter almond kills a dog , but is 
wholefome food for man. Parfley is [deadly "to 
Jmall birds ; while fwine eat it fafely ; and 'pepper 
is mortal to fwine , and wholefome to poultry. 
Thus every creature has its allotted portion. 
Animals diftinguifh the noxious from the falu- 
tary by fmell and tafte. Younger animals have 
thefe fenfes more acute, and therefore are more 
nice in diftinguifhing plants. An empty fto- 
mach will often drive animals to feed upon 
plants, that were not intended for them by 
nature. But whenever this has happened they 
become more cautious for the future, and 
acquire a certain kind of experience \ e. g. the 
monks-hood , which grows nearFahluna, is gene- 
rally left untouched by all the animals, that are 
accuflomed to thefe places , but if forreign cattle 
are brought thither and meet with this ve- 
getable, they venture to take too large a quantity 
of it, and are killed b . The cattle that have 
b The fame thing has been told me by the countrey people 
in Herefordihire in relation to madow-faffron , which grows in 
plenty in fome parts of that county. Gmelin, Flor. Sibirica, 
p. 76. fays that cattle eat the leaves of the hellebore , 40. when 
they firft fpring out of the gromci and are thereby killed. 
been 
