On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:13:18 -0500, Michelle
wrote:

wow actually I did not know that hemlock was also a name for a plant
that looked like queen ann's lace in my neck of the woods hemlock is a
conifer I used to have one out side of my house had short needles and
a light line down the middle of each a pretty tree dropped a lot of
needles though

That's a completely different plant with no connection to the water
hemlocks. I don't know why they are both called hemlocks.

Elliot Richmond
Freelance Science Writer and Editor