 Hemlock. — The American water hemlock is one of the most poisonous plants native to the United States. Every year cases are reported of people, more often children, poisoned from eating the roots of water hemlock, mistaking; it for wild garden parsnip....  Reportby Wisconsin. State Board of Health - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Victor King Chesnut - Poisonous plants - 1898 - 72 pages
...characteristic of the European water hemlock ( Cicuta virosa). Both are powerful poisons,but the latter is the more violent and produces most of the symptoms characteristic...of the plant. The American water hemlock is one of tlie most poisonous plants usitive to the United States. Its victims include both man FIG. 21. —... | |
 | Louis Hermann Pammel - Weeds - 1903 - 268 pages
...characteristic of the European water hemlock (Gicuta, virosa). Both are powerful poisons, but the latter is the more violent and produces most of the symptoms characteristic...especially dangerous, because they are often washed or frozen out of the soil and thus exposed to view." Bull. Div. Botany, US Dept. Agrl. 20: 40. 426... | |
 | Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station - Agriculture - 1915 - 540 pages
...but it is likely that it has been confused with the water hemlock. Poisoning by Water Hemlock. — The American water hemlock is one of the most poisonous plants native to the United States. Every year cases are reported of people, more often children, poisoned from eating the roots of water... | |
 | Forest reserves - 1918 - 710 pages
...but it is likely that it has been confused with the water hemlock. Poisoning by U'atcr Hemlock. — The American water hemlock is one of the most poisonous plants native to the United States. Every year cases are reported of people, more often children, poisoned from eating the roots of water... | |
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