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FIG. 378. Bittersweet (Solatium Dulcamara), a perennial, climbing or twining shrub, 

 with several types of leaves, varying from ovate heart-shaped. The flowers arc blue or 

 purplish and hang in loose cymose clusters. The fruit is an ovoid, reddish berry and very 

 poisonous. It is sometimes eaten by children, producing fatal effects. After Brown. 



