WATER-HEMLOCK, Long-leaved. Happily this plant is not very common in England: the roots are the most virulent vegetable poison that is indigenous here. Linnaeus, in the Flora Lapponica, no 103, gives a dreadful account of the havoc it made among the horned cattle in Lapland, where it is common in the meadows near the sea, and where these cattle will frequently eat it, upon being first turned to grass in the spring, though they afterwards refuse it: yet they will eat the roots at all times, which are the most virulent parts of the plant. Bishop Gunner and Gmelin both confirm these bad effects. It is yet doubtful whether horses are hurt by it; and certain that goats are delighted with it, and eat it without any subsequent ill effect: and the roots are collected by the Norwegian peasants as fodder for those animals.