7&^ Ufeful Family Herbal, 263 



Common Nightshade. 



SOLANUM VULGARE. 



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Wild Plant, that over-nins Gardens, and all 

 other cultivated Places, if not continually 

 weeded out. It grows two Feet high, the Stalks 

 are roundifli, thick, but not ver>' ered or ftrong, 

 and of a dufky Green. The Leaves are broad 

 and round! fh, but they terminate in a Point. 

 They are of a, dark green Colour, and Hand on 

 Foot-Stalks." The Flowers, grow in little Clu- 

 fters, ten or a Dozen in a Bunch, they are white, 

 with a yeilowilh Center, and they are fuccceded 



by round black Berries. 



The Leaves are ufed frefh, and only external- 

 ly. They are very cooling, and are applied bruifed 

 to Inflammations, Scalds, Burns, and troublefome 

 Eruptions on the Skin. 



Deadly Nightshade. 

 SOLANUM LETHALE. 



T may feem ftrange to mix a Poifon among 

 Medicines, but a Part of this Herb has itsUfes. 

 This is a wild Plant of a dull and difmal Afpecb. • 

 It 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 lorg- 

 Foot-Stalks, arifmgfrom theBofom of the Leaves, 

 and they alfo have the fam6 difmal Afped, they 

 are large, hollow, and hang down. On the Out- 

 fide they are of a dufky Colour, between brown 

 and green, and within they are of a very deep 

 Purple. Thefe are fucceeded by Berries of the 

 Bignefs of Cherries, black andfliining when ripe, 

 and full of a pulpy Matter, of a fweeti/h and 



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