203 NIGHTSHADES. 
SOLANALS, 
An annual ; leaves ovate, smooth, unequally sinuate-toothed ; capsules 
erect, spiny ; flowers white. 
abitat. Waste places. 
Quality. Like ‘hias of Henbane and Belladonna. 
__ Seeds produce maniacal delirium. ee 
Uses, To allay pain ; in,tie-douloureux, spasmodic 
4, Mania, epilepsy. 
2. D. sanguinea Ruiz and Pavon.—(Fiort- 
PONDIO.) 
A tree; leaves oblong-acuminate, toothed, 
_ angular, hairy ; flowers pendulous, red, 
with narrow acuminate lobes to the 
corolla. 
Habitat. Pern, 
ity. Seeds produce furious excitement. 
Uses, “No Riis on fits of delirium; to form a stupefying 
beverage. 
Manpracora. Tournefort. 
Corolla campanulate, plaited. Stigma sg 0s 
mens inclosed in the tube of the calyx, sprea : 
ing. Berry 2-celled, surrounded by the enlarge 
ade dragora 
LM. oficinarum Miller. Atropa Mandrago 
Linnzeus.—(Manprake.) = 
stemless plant, with a large forked fleshy —— 
Toot ; leaves lanceolate, spreading, grey ; flowers 
idden among the leaves, pale violet. 
Habitat, South of Europe. 
Quality, Acro-narcotic, 
purgative, anzesthetic 
aphrodisia jac, : 
Uses, An old ingredient 
_ philtres ; dangerous 
and disused, « Le pro- 
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