230 ORD. XII. Solanacece, seu Luride. 
of other eatable fruits. Ray informs us, that a gouty person pre- 
vented ‘the returns of the disorder by taking eight cf these cherries 
at each change of the moon:* we find also instances related of 
their gocd effects in dropsical and calculous complaints,‘ but at 
present they are wholly disregarded. 
“Lic. * See Léseke, Arnold. de Villa Nova, & Lister; as cited by Murr. 1. ¢. 
ATROPA BELLADONNA. DEADLY NIGHTSHADE. 
SYNONYMA. Belladonna, Pharm. Edinb. Belladonna trichotoma, 
Socop. Carn. 1. p. 160. Belladonna caule herbaceo, brachiato, 
foliis ovato-lanceolatis, integerrimis. Hal. Stirp. Helv. N. 579. 
“Solanum Lethale, Clus. Hist. p. 86. Dod. purg. p. 360. Solanum 
Melanocerasus, Bauh. ‘Pin. 166. Solanum majus, Cam. epit. p. 817. 
Class Pentandria. Order Monogynia.. L. Gen. Plant. 249. 
Ess.Gen. Ch. Cor.campanulata. Stam. distantia. Bacca, globosa, 
2-locularis. ; 
Sp. Ch. Atropa Belladonna, caule herbaceo, fol. ovatis integris. 
THE Belladonna has a thick whitish root, which is perennial, 
and sends forth strong, branched, annual, purple-coloured stems, 
from three to five feet high. The leaves are of unequal size, 
entire, oval, pointed, and “stand in pairs upon short footstalks. 
The flowers are of a dark or brownish purple colour, large, pen- 
dent, beli-shaped, furrowed, and the limb cut into five segments. 
The whole plant is covered with fine hairs: or down: the flowers 
appear inJune or July, but the berries are not ripe till September, 
when they acquire a shining black colour. It grows in shady and 
stony waste grounds, but it is not very common near London, 
