NOTES. 
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Note 1. 
Mosr European writers seem to consider the Datura stra- 
monium as a native of America. In Miller’s Dictionary by 
Martyn, the editor says, * That it is a native of America, we 
have the most undoubted proofs, for in earth brought with 
plants from various parts of that extensive country, we are sure 
to have the Thorn apple come up. Kalm says, that it grows 
about all the villages, and that this and the Phytolacca are the 
worst weeds there. Our old writers call it Le Apples of 
Peru.” 
This evidence however is by no means 5 auffictents The plant 
appears in earth and ballast, carried from either continent alike. 
The name Apple of Peru has also been applied to Datura metel, 
a plant of Africa and the East Indies. 
Note B. 
In the Catalogue of plants in the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 
published i in 1814, a species is inserted by the name of Datura 
Tatula, said to be a native of the Cape of Good Hope. This is 
probably different from the Datura Tatula of Linneus. 
Note C. 
« The Jamestown weed, (which resembles the thorny apples of 
Peru, and I take it to be the plant so called,) is supposed to be 
one ofthe greatest coolers in the world. his being an early 
plant, was gathered very young for a boiled sallad, by some of 
the soldiers sent thither to quell the rebellion of Bacon; and 
some of them ate plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very 
