THE 
AMERICAN  JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY, 
JULY,    1  855. 
ON  CICUTA  MACULATA,  OR  WATER  HEMLOCK. 
By  Joseph  Evans  Young. 
(An  Inaugural  Essay  presented  to  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.) 
Flowering  branch  of  Cicuta  maculata. 
Botanical  Description. — Sex.  Syst.  Pentandria  digynia, 
Nat.  Ord.  Apiaceae  or  Umbelliferae. 
Gen.  Ch. — Partial  involucre,  leaves  ternate  and  pinnate.  Fruit 
orbicular,  tenfurrowed. 
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