SOLANALS. 202 NIGHTSHADES. 
Habitat. Waste places all over the world. 
Quality. Slightly narcotic. 
Uses. Asa resolvent ; berries eatable without danger ; in hot countries, leaves used 
as spinach. 
4. §. Lycopersicum Linnzeus.—(TomaTo.) 
An annual ; leaves interruptedly pinnate, hairy ; flowers yellow ; berries 
large, ribbed, many-celled. 
Habitat.. Peru. 
Uses. The juice of the fruit subacid, much used as a sauce. 
5. S$. Melongena Linneus.—(Eee Puayt.) 
An annual, gray, with stellate hairs; leaves ovate, angular; flowers purple; 
fruit oblong, smooth, shining, with a hard skin. 
Habitat. East Indies. 
_ Uses. Fruit much used as food, when skilfully cooked. Called, in the countries where 
it grows, Aubergine, Brinjal, &c. ° 
Hyoscyamus. Linneeus. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, irregular. Fruit a pyxis enclosed in a permanent 
hardened calyx. 
1. H. niger Linneeus.—(HEN- 
Bi ean fale BANE.) Fig. 274. 
= Leaves sessile, viscid, amplexi- 
eaul, pinnatifid ; flowers 
nearly sessile; corolla yel 
low, veined with purple. 
Habitat, Waste places. | 
Quality. Sedative, narcotic, poison: 
ous, ee 
Uses. As an anodyne, and antispas — 
modic; cough, gonorrhoea, toc 
ing, glandular swellings; to dilate 
the pupil of the eye. ee 
Datura. Linneeus. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, plaited. Calyx deciduous, with a perman 
; Po base. A 4-celled, 4-valved Capsule. 
1D. Stramoniwm Linneus.—(Tuorx Apriz.) Fig. 275. 
canara af os 
Fig. 274.—Hyoscyamus niger ; a, calyx ; b, pyxis. 
