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nify it, and prepare us for properly contemplating the awful 
majesty of our Creator. 
CictfTA, L. Cowbane. 
4 
Br . sp . 1. F . 1. 
C. virosa, L. Cowbane, or Water Hemlock. H. 135, B. 
126. — F. June, August. P. 
Margins of the Lakes of Rescobie, Balgavies, Forfar, &c., 
generally growing in the water. 
Restenet, Mr A. Croall. 
This very poisonous plant is appropriately named Cow- 
bane , and Mr G. Don relates that “ cattle, when allowed to 
browse by the sides of the lakes in the winter months, are 
sometimes deceived, by its smell being very weak at that 
season ; and when once they have eaten it, it generally proves 
fatal in two or three hours. The late Mr Dickson of Cloak’s- 
bridge lost three cows in one afternoon by this plant. When 
the summer is a little advanced, the odour of the plant warns 
the cattle, and then they carefully avoid it.” Were farmers 
acquainted with this and such like plants, and making them 
known to their herd-boys, it might be much to their advan- 
tage. 
Helosciadium, Kocli. Marsh-wort. 
Br . sp . 3. F . 1. 
H. inundatum , Koch. Least Marsh-wort. H. 137, B. 
127. — F. May, July. B. ? (Sium inundatum Wigg. Si- 
son inundatum , E. Bot.) 
In wet and marshy places occasionally. Marshy pool, 
Sands of Barrie. Small marsh a little to the north of the 
Lawhill, &c. 
In pools and ditches on Guthrie and Rossie moors, Mr A . 
Croall. Monroman moor, Mr J. Cruickshank. 
-ZEgopodium, L. Goutweed. 
Br . Sp . 1. F . 1. 
A. Podagraria , L. Goutweed. H. 138, B. 128. — F. 
May, July* P. 
1 'nder hedges, by waysides, and in waste places, abundant. 
