Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

i62 PENTANDRIA DIGYNfA.
The umbels have no imiverfal involucrum ; when
/^/,aai//^A^^'^r]pQ the/^refemble fmall prickly fpheres.
ttocaia 2. OE. foliis omnibus multifidis obrufis fubcequair-
biis. Sp. pL 365. {Ger. Em. 1059. /. 4. Moris,
hijl. f^t. 7./. 2. crdinis fecundi. FeL herb. t. 2c^.
f- 1-)
Hemlock Dropwort. An-^lis.
Upon the banks of ditches, rivers and lakes fre-
quently. %. VII.
The rays of the univcrfal umbel are longitudinally
furrow'd, arid has nouniverlal involucrum : the
leaves are fnigly and doubly pinnated : each fo-
liolum is wedge-iliap'd, fmooth, ilreak'd v/ith
lines, and hotch'd on the edges.
The roots and leaves cf this plant are a terrible
poifon j feveral perfons have perifhed by eating
it thro' miftake, cither for wattr-parfneps or for
celeri, which laft it refembles pretty much in its
leaves. So extremely deleterious is its nature,
that I remember to have heard the late Mr.
Cbriftopher D. Ehrct^ that celebrated botanic
painter, f:y, that while he vv^as drawing this
plant, the fmell or ePiiUvia only rendered hirn
lb giddy that he was feveral tim.es oblig'd to quit
the room, and walk out in the frclli air to re-
cover himfelf ; but recolledling at lafb what
might probably be the caufe of his repeated ill-
nefs, he opened the door and v>^indows of the
room, and the free air then enabled him to finiil
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