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given above, and others recited by Mr. Howell, and Mr. 
William Watfon,in the Philofophical Tranfaftions. The 
former of thefe gentlemen fays, that two French prifoners 
at Pembroke died by eating the rpot; that the inhabi¬ 
tants call it Jive-fingered root; and that it is much ufed 
there in cataplafms for the fellon, or word: kind of whit¬ 
low. In N° 238 of the Phil. Tranf. a cafe is related of 
eight young lads near Clonmel in Ireland, where this 
plant is called tahow, miftaking its roots for the water- 
parfnip: five of them died. Dr. Allen, in his Synopfis 
Medicinas, mentions an inftance of four children, who 
ate of thefe roots, but, by proper care, did well: and ano¬ 
ther, of a pig’s dying in convullions, from eating forne of 
thefe roots, which it had grubbed up. Mr. Miller in¬ 
formed fir William Watfon that a whole family were poi- 
foned with this plant at Batlerfea. The method of cure 
is, to empty the flomach and inteftines asfoon as poffible, 
and then to caufe the patient to fwallow large quantities 
of oleaginous fluids. This is attended with difficulty, 
becaufe the jaws are, as it were, locked together by the 
violence of the fpafm. 
The more caution is neceffary refpefiling this plant, be¬ 
caufe it is not uncommon in fome places ; its appearance 
and fmell refemble fmallage or celery, and the roots have 
not any flavour difagreeable enough to deter perfons from 
eating them. Lobel is the firft who has given a fmall 
figure and a tolerable defcription of this plant. Dodo- 
nreus’s figure is execrably bad, and is copied by Gerard 
and Parkinfon. The figures of John Bauhin, Matthiolus, 
and Morifon, give us fcarcely any other idea of the plant, 
than that it is an umbelliferous one, with roots divided 
like thole of afphodel. Morifon’s is the belt. Jacquin 
has given a good coloured figure of it; and it cannot be 
iniftaken from the plate engraved by Mynde from a draw¬ 
ing of Ehret’s, which accompanies Mr. YVatfon’s difi'er- 
tation on this plant in the Phil. Tranf. vol. xliv. anno 
1746. and from which the parts exhibited on the annexed 
Platfe are copied. A large piece of the root is fhown at 
fig. 1. b, a branch taken from the bottom of the ftalk 
where the leaves are the largeff. c, a top-branch with the 
umbels of flowers, d, the flower of its natural lize. e, the 
fame reverfed. f, the flower d magnified, g, the fame re¬ 
versed. /(, rudiments of the fruit after the decay of the 
flower, i, the fame magnified. And, by way of compan¬ 
ion, we have alfo exhibited two leaves which bear lome 
refemblance to the above, and for which it might be mif- 
taken : viz. k, a leaf of celery; andi, a leaf of parfley. 
■4. Oenanthe prolifera, or proliferous water-drop wort: 
marginal pedunclesof the umbels longer, branched, male. 
Root perennial, confiding of feveral tubers, which are 
round, narrowing to each end, long, of a dirty brown on 
the outfide, white within. The whole plant is lmooth. 
Stem herbaceous, a foot and a half in height, upright, 
little branched, green, angular-ftriated. Native of Sicily 
and Italy. Cultivated in 1739 by Mr. Miller. It flowers 
in June and July. 
5. Oenanthe globulofa, or globular-headed water-drop- 
wort : fruits globular. Stem a foot high or more, branched, 
angular at the bafe, and often purple. The firft root- 
leaves ternate or quinate, with fome of the leaflets lan¬ 
ceolate, others wedge-fliaped, entire, bifid or three-lobed, 
veined, very fmooth ; the next and low-er ftem-leaves are 
lanceolate, bipinnate, the pinnules and leaflets oppofite, 
lanceolate, bifid or trifid, acuminate. The fruit i$_ 
larger than a coriander. It has more the appearance of 
the next fpecies than any other; but it is eafily ciifcin- 
guilhed from that by the whole leaves being lanceolate, 
not triangular, and the Item being lefs branched. Native 
of Portugal. Cultivated in 1739 by Mr. Miller. It is 
biennial, and flowers in June or July. 
6. Oenanthe pimpinelloides, or parfley water-dropwort: 
root-leaflets wedge-fhaped cloven, thofe of the Item en¬ 
tire linear, very long, Ample. Roots cylindric, cluttered 
fibrous, with bulbs or tubers hanging upon long pedun¬ 
cles. Steins only a hand or half a foot in height, angular. 
CE N O 
Root-leaves like thofe of parfley, but thicker, bipinnate, 
broad, with wedge-form gafhed divided leaflets ; (tern- 
leaves lefs compound, fcarcely bipinnate ; with linear, 
channelled, very-long, leaflets. Corollas white, little 
rayed. . 
Relhan fays that the Item is from two to three feet high. 
Villars remarks that the leaves vary much ; thofe under 
water being wide, thick, bipinnate, and rounded; the 
others ftraight, much narrower and longer: umbels foli- 
tary, on ftraight Items, two or three feet high. Native of 
the fouthern part of Europe and England, in marfhes, 
efpecially near the coaft, as at Quaplod in Lincolnfliire, 
near Spalding ; Hinton Moor, in Cambridgelhire ; Bul- 
van-Fen, Ell'ex; near Mortlake; between Sydenham and 
South End. 
7. Oenanthe inebrians : pinnas of the lower leaves 
ovate, of the upper linear, petioles angular. 8. Oenantho 
tenuifolia: leaves bipinnate, pinnas linear, the upper 
ones undivided. 9. Oenanthe ferulacea: leaves fuper- 
decompound, pinnules awl-fliaped grooved. 10. Oenan¬ 
the interrupta : leaves interruptedly bipinnate, fegments 
gafh-ferrate. 11. Oenanthe exaltata : Items ftriated, feeds 
turbinate ftriated. All thefe are natives of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants naturally grow 
in moift places ;their feeds therefore ftiould be town 
upon a moift foil in autumn foon after they are ripe. The 
firft, fecond, and fixth, forts will do very well in the 
common ground ; but the third requires mud to grow 
in to any purpoie. See Seseli, Sis.on, Sium, and Tha- 
LICTRUM. 
CENA'RIA, f. A name given by the ancients to allies 
prepared from the leaves, tendrils, and young ftalks, of 
the vine. ’ They were accounted highly diuretic. 
CENISTE'RIA, f. Sacrifices held by the youth of 
Athens, before the firft time of cutting the hair, and {ha¬ 
ving the beard. The etymology of the word, which comes 
from the Gr. awo;, wine, (hows that the matter here of¬ 
fered was-wine. Thefefacrifices were offered to Hercules; 
and the quantity to be offered was. regulated by law. 
CFNOMAN'TIA, /, [Greek.] A fpecies of ancient di- 
vination-by wine, which was done by making conjectures 
from the colour, motion, noife, and other accidents, of the 
wine of libations. 
GENQM'AUS, a fon of Mars by Sterope the daughter 
of Atlas. He was king of Pifia in Elis, and father of Hip- 
podamia. See that article, vol. x. 
CENOM'AUS, a Greek philofopher and orator in the 
fecond century, is commonly claffed, both by ancient and 
modern writers, under the Cynic fed. He was a native 
of Gadara, and flourifhed under the reign of the emoeror 
Adrian. He wrote a treatife to expofe the frauds and inv- 
poftures of oracles, which was very ably executed, and 
with a degree of freedom which a Chriftian would not be 
permitted to ufe. He alfo wTote another treatife, to cen- 
fure the degeneracy of the later cynics ; and Suidasaf- 
cribes to him works On Government, and the Philofophy 
of Homer, as well as Lives of Crates, Diogenes, and other 
cynic phiiofophers. None of his pieces, however, have 
reached our times; but large fragments of his book 
again ft oracles are preferved in-the fifth and fixth books 
of Eufebius’s Praip. Evangel. Fabricii Bibl. Grtec. vol. ii, 
Enfield's Hijl. Phil. vol. ii. 
GENO'NE, a nymph of Mount Ida, daughter of the 
river Cebrenus in Phrygia. As (lie had received the gift 
of prophecy, (lie foretold to Paris, whom Ihe married be¬ 
fore he was difcovered to be the Ion of Priam, that his 
voyage into Greece would be attended with the moft fe- 
rious confequences, and the total ruin of his country ; 
and that he lhould have recourfe to her medicinal know¬ 
ledge at the hour of death. All thefe predictions were 
fulfilled ; and Paris, when he had received the fatal wound, 
ordered his body to be carried to CEnone, in hopes of 
being cured by her afliftance. He expired as he came 
into her pretence; and CEnone was fo ftruck at the fight 
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