Volume 1

Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias : Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain / By John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill.

  • John Stephenson
Date:
MDCCCXXXIV-MDCCCXXXVI [1834-1836]
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Credit: Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias : Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain / By John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    X (ENANTHE PHELLANDRIUM. Fine-leaved, Water Hemlock. Class V. Pentandria.— Order II. Digynia. Nat. Ord. Umbellat.e, Lin. Umbellifer.e, Juss. Umbellinje, Umbellace.e, Burn. Gen. Char. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals obcordate with the points indexed. Fruit subterate, crowned with the straight styles. Carpels with five blunt convex ridges, of which the side ones are marginal. Chan- nels with single vittse. Seed convex, taper : axis abortive. Spec. Char. Leaflets, with narrow, wedge-shaped, cut, divaricated segments. Fruit ovate, with five ribs. * Syn.—Phellandrium. Dod. Pempt. 591 ; Rivin. Renta]). Irr. t. 65; Halt. Hist. v. 1. 332. Phellandrium vel Cicutaria aquatica quorundam. Raii. Syn. 215; Bauli. Hist. v. 3. 183. Cicutaria palustris. Ger. Em. 1063./.; Lob. Icon. 735. f.; Park. 933. (Enanthe Phellandrium. Spreng. Prodr. 37 ; Smith Eng. FI. v. 2. p. 72. Ligusticum Phellandrium. Crantz. FI. Austr.fasc. 3. 84. Phellandrium aquaticum. Lin. Sp. PI. 366 ; Willd. v. 1. 1444; FI. Br. 321; Eng. Bot. «. 10. t. 684; Hook. Scot. 92. This is an indigenous biennial plant, found growing in ditches and rivers; but not very common. We found it in great abundance in a pond at Kentish town, and in a deep ditch at Battersea, associated with the elegant Butomus umbellalus, Lythrum Salicaria, and other aquatics. It flowers in July and August. From a jointed root-stake, the fibres from which grow in whorls, proceeds an erect, hollow, smooth, furrowed stem, of a yellowish green colour, and very thick at the lower uart, with diverging branches, to the height of three or four feet. The leaves are large, spreading, smooth, dark, shining green, tripin-