The Useful Family Her bal. 263 
s + 
Common NIGHTSHADE. 
SOLANUM VULGARE. ~ 
‘A Wild Plant, that over-runs Gardens, and all 
other cultivated Places, if not continually 
weeded out. It grows two Feet high, the Stalks 
are roundifh, thick, but not very erect or ftrong, 
and of a dufky Green. The Leaves are broad 
and roundifh, but they terminate in a Point. 
They are of a dark green Colour, and ftand on 
 Root-Stalks. The Flowers, grow in little Clu- 
fters, ten or a Dozen in a Bunch, they are white, 
witha yellowifh Center, and they are fucceeded 
by round black Berries. in 
‘The Leaves are ufed frefh, and only external- 
They are very Cooling, and are applied bruifed 
Inflammations, Scalds, Burns, and troublefome 
Eruptions on the Skin. = 
a 
DEADEY NIGHTSHADE. _ 
SOLANUM LETHALE. 
T may feem ftrange to mix a Poifon among 
* Medicines, but a Part of this Herb has its Ufes. 
This is a wild Plant of a dull and difmal Afpect. _ 
Tt grows five Feet high. The Stalks are angu-— 
lated, and of a deep Green. The Leaves are very 
large, broad, and flat, and they alfo are of a dull 
dead Green, The Flowers ftand fingly on long- 
oot-Stalks, ariling from the Bofom of the Leaves, 
and they alfo have the fame difmal Afpect, they 
are large, hollow, 
and green, and within they are of a very deep 
And fall of 2 pulpy “Matter, of a fweetifh and 
and hang down. On the Out- — : 
fide they are of a dufky Colour, between brown 
Purple. Thefe are fucceeded by Berries of the ie 
Bignefs of Cherries, black and fhining when ripe, 
