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The following are a few of a different class, which, as not containing any thing particularly disagreeable to the taste of cattle, are frequently eaten by them to their injury. The agricultural student should make himself perfectly acquainted with those. CICUTA virosa. COWBANE. Linnaeus observes, that cattle have died in consequence of eating the roots.
The pungency seems to reside in the bark; the sweet in the juice; the aromatic flavour in oily vesicles, spread through the substance of the pulp, and distinguishable even by the eye; and the bitter in the seeds: the fresh berries yield, on expression, a rich, sweet, honey-like, aromatic juice; if previously pounded so as to break the seeds, the juice proves tart and bitter. LACTUCA virosa.
The roots, in the winter season, when destitute of leaves, may, however, be mistaken for those of Parsnep, Parsley, Skirret, and many others of similar shape, and of which it is out of our power to give a distinguishing character. LACTUCA virosa. STRONG-SCENTED WILD LETTUCE. The juice of this plant is a very powerful opiate, and care should be taken how it is made use of.
WILD LETTUCE. Leaves. E. Dr. Collin at Vienna first brought the Lactuca virosa into medical repute; and its character has lately induced the College of Physicians at Edinburgh to insert it in the Catalogue of the Materia Medica.
CELANDINE. The yellow juice of this plant is extremely acrid and narcotic. It is not at all like any plant used for culinary purposes, and therefore there is not any great danger likely to arise from its being confounded with any useful vegetable. CICUTA virosa. COWBANE. Two boys and six girls, who found some roots of this plant in a water-meadow, ate of them.
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