AMERICAN 
MEDICAL BOTANY. 
DATURA STRAMONIUM. 
Thorn .ipple. 
PLATE I. 
Tue Datura Stramonium is a wandering an- 
nual plant, which follows the progress of culti- 
yation, and is rarely found remote from the vi- 
cinity of dwellings. It occurs in every part of 
the Atlantic coast from Maine to the Floridas, 
and is also found in the Western States in the 
neighbourhood of settlements. Its favorite haunts 
are the borders of fields and roadsides, among 
rubbish and in neglected spots of rich ground. 
It emigrates with great facility, and often springs 
up in the ballast of ships, and in earth carried 
nother. This circumstance ie : 
from one country to al 
in Europe has undese 
opinion, that it is originally an American plant. 
Its native country, however, is doubtful, from 
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