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| | 033. Death by CICUTOXIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Cicuta virosa is the common European water hemlock, and Cicuta maculata and Cicuta douglasii are the varieties found in North America. |
 | | Common eponyms for Cicuta are cowbane, five-finger root, snake weed, wild carrot, dead man’s fingers, poison parsnip, wild parsnip, beaver poison, muskrat weed, spotted hemlock, spotted cowbane, musquash root, false parsley, fever root, mockeel root, wild dill, spotted parsley and carotte à moreau. |
 | | Cicuta plants are difficult to identify in the early spring, when only the fleshy swollen roots, particularly toxic at this time, are present. |
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