ATROPA BELLADONNA. 65 
of leaves, and from amongst these are three or four slender 
scapes, each supporting a single flower of an herbaceous, white 
colour ; the fruit is a globular, soft berry, of a yellowish colour, 
about the size of a nutmeg. It was the subject of most 
ridiculous superstitions, from the supposed likeness of the root 
to the human form; it was certain death to dig it up. 
3. Atropa Physaloides. Peruvian Deadly Nightshade. The 
flower bell-shaped slightly ; five-lobed, and blue with a white 
edge, having blue spots. Berry the size of a cherry, with fine 
sharp angles. 
4. Atropa Solanacee. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Six feet high; peduncles axillary ; one-flowered. 
5. Atropa arborescens. Tree Atropa. A native of South 
America and Jamaica. A small tree or shrub; leaves alternate, 
and tufted towards the end of the branches; flowers white, 
fragrant, and nodding. ‘This species is often tetrandrous. 
6. Atropa frutescens. A native of Spain. Six or eight feet 
high; leaves alternate, roundish; flowers come out between the 
leaves on short peduncles, resembling those of the Belladonna, 
but much smaller, and of a dirty yellow colour. 
1. Atropa herbacea. Two feet high; flowers white. Native 
of Campeachy. 
8. Atropa procumbens. Wheel-flowered Atropa. A native 
of Mexico. Corolla herbaceous ; yellow, wheel-shaped, which 
sufficiently distinguishes it from all its compeers. 
GrocraruicaL Disrrisution.—Atropa Belladonna is a 
native of nearly the whole of Europe, more especially in the 
south. It is indigenous in Great Britain. 
Locatrt1zs.—In waste grounds, more particularly on a cal- 
careous soil; not common. In this country it may be found in 
Whichwood Forest, near Witney; between Nettlebed and 
Henley, Oxon; Woodstock Park, near the Monument; Tile- 
hurst Common and Englefield, Berks ; near the ruins of Dudley 
Castle, Worcestershire; Cottenham, Triplow, Fulbourn, and — 
Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire; roadside, near Peterborough ; 
