66 FLORA HOMGOPATHICA. 
Blathewick Park, at Kingscliff, Northamptonshire ; Furness 
Abbey, among the ruins, which is called Vale of Nightshade ; 
Cuxstone, near Rochester, Kent; Reigate, Surrey ; about Box- 
hill, near Dorking, Surrey ; on Inchcolm, and near the ruins of 
Borthwick Castle, Scotland. 
Gerarde found it growing “ without Highgate, near unto a 
pond or penfold on the left hand.” Ray mentions it as growing 
in a ditch at the end of Goswell-street, on the road to Islington ; 
and in the Annual Register of 1762, there is an account of the 
death of two persons by this plant, with the following caution 
by Dr. Hill: “ This plant is now a quarter of a yard high, and 
has an aspect so inviting, that one almost wonders how Nature 
gave to it a poison. It has invited many to boil it, and death 
was always in the pot. Ray mentions it growing there; it has 
been thought lost in that place, but I fear those unhappy 
persons have found it.’ 
The specimen from which the drawing is made was found 
near Reigate, in Surrey. 
From its very poisonous character, it should never be cul- 
tivated, either for ornamental or medicinal purposes, where 
children or ignorant persons have access. 
Parts useD 1n Meprcrnz, any Mopr or PREPARATION.— 
_ Leaves, Stem, and Flowers. The leaves readily yield their 
ae alcohol. In Quin’s Pharmacopeia Homeopathica, it 
is ordered to be prepared as follows: the expressed juice of the 
recently-gathered leaves and stem is to be mixed with equal parts 
of spirits of wine, and after twenty-four hours the liquid is to be 
oe clear and limpid. One drop of this is to be agitated 
Soe. with ninety-nine drops of spirits of wine, and the sign (1) 
ee attenuate to the thirtieth dilution. It 
chee = - that the extract of Belladonna, 
Jntorigsaetene ie = time, paleniats ely changed, 
a prashe Se a < new eoaipnstion: is formed, and 
i es insoluble in water. The leaves may 
