What is "cicuta bulbifera"

Hemlock \Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.]

1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, Cicuta bulbifera, and Cicuta virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.

   Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by some thought to have been a decoction of Cicuta virosa, or water hemlock, by others, of Conium maculatum.

2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America ( Abies Canadensis or Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.

   The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.
   --Longfellow.

3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.

   Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.

Cicuta bulbifera, commonly known as the bulb-bearing water-hemlock, is a plant native to North America and one of four species in the poisonous genus Cicuta. Tiny bulbils form in the leaf joints in the upper part of the plant, giving the plant its scientific and common names. Cicuta bulbifera can be distinguished from Cicuta douglasii by its narrow leaflet segments (less than 1/4 of an inch wide) and its bulbil-bearing upper leaf axils.