...nearly plane, equal ridges, of which the lateral ones are marginal. Interstices with single villa, which in the dry fruit are more raised than the ridges....plant is similarly marked by hollow articulations. Pentandria. Digynia. 1. C. virosa, Linn. Water Hemlock or Cowbane. Br. Fl. 1. p. 129. E. Fl. v. ii....

...nearly plane, equal ridges, of which tke lateral ones are marginal. Interstices with single villa, which in the dry fruit are more raised than the ridges....few leaves, or 0 ; partial of many leaves.— Name, Ctcuta was a term given by the Latins to those spaces between the joints of a reed of which their pipes...

...annual, or at most a biennial plant, and its parent is now known to be Cichorium endivio. Cicuta. — Cicuta was a term given by the Latins to those spaces...plant is similarly marked by hollow articulations. Some old authors state it to be derived " quasi cacuta" blind, because it destroys the sight of those...

...prominent. Universal involucre of few leaves or 0 ; partial of many leaves. Carpophore bipartite. — Name : Cicuta was a term given by the Latins to those...plant is similarly marked by hollow articulations. ft Seed or albumen furrowed in front. (campylospermous.J a. Fruit elongated. — Tr. SCANDICINE.E....

...Flowers July and August. The WATER-HEMLOCK or COWBANE (Cicuta virosa)—Fig. in " EB," 571. Hooker says Cicuta was a term given by the Latins to those spaces...plant is similarly marked by hollow articulations. Although not very common, it occasionally is found by the side of some of our rivers. We have found...

...beset at the joints with numerous slender fibres, possessing a strong smell and somewhat acrid The name " Cicuta was a term given by the Latins to those...their pipes were made; and the stem of this plant is equally formed of hollow internodes;" virosa from the Latin word virus, poison. 568 BOTANY AS APPLIED...