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Belladonna has.a thick, whitifh, root, which is perennial 
and fbnds forth ftrong, branched, annual, purple-coloured^ftems 
from three to five feet high 
The leaves are of unequal fize 
oval, pointed, and ftand in pairs upon fhort footftalk 
The flowers 
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furrowed, and the limb cut into five Segments 
covered with fine hairs or down 
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but the berries are not 
ihining black colour. 
but is not very common near London 
the flowers appear in June or July 
ripe • till ^ September, "when they acquire 
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It grows m^ihady and ilony. wait e grounds, 
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yet afcertained, but it has 
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known as a fl:rong poifon of the 
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narcotic kind : and the berries 
though lefs powerful than the leaves, furnifh us with many inftanS 
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