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"Is there much water-hemlock in the gulch this summer?"
The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916
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The poisonous hemlocks are two, one of which, the common hemlock, is said to have been the plant from which the Athenians prepared their poison for executing citizens condemned to death; and the other, the water-hemlock, or cowbane, is particularly deadly when eaten by cattle, to which it is fatal in a very few hours.
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Cicuta bulbifera (bulb-bearing water-hemlock), Penobscot and Chesuncook shore, 1853.
The Maine Woods 1858
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Among them were a species of prune, the water-hemlock, and the strawberry.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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