0 a type of poison made from a plant with small white flowers and divided leaves, also called hemlock --
1 a poisonous plant that has small white flowers --
Things like stinging nettles, elders, thistles, hemlock and chickweed, for example, often thrived only because rabbits ate the edible plants which would otherwise have competed with them.
I would say that the other ingredients missing from his description are arsenic and old lace and a bit of hemlock.
Some might wish that that solution was a dilute mixture of tranquillisers or hemlock.
Does he also think it right that hemlock should have been the punishment?
Douglas fir, western hemlock and grand fir shared a number of herbivorous arthropods but were distinguished by a second principal component (fig. 1).
Now, it stands proudly in a row of hemlock trees, and to look at it you might not recognise its history unless you were a trained horticulturist.
The same trend was observed for males of the island population but differences between balsam fir and eastern hemlock were not significantly different (table 2; fig. 4).
Psocoptera were most abundant on western hemlock and grand fir, especially associated with staminate (male) flowers.
