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The names bestowed upon the plant and collected 

 by the authors of the ' Dictionary of Plant Names ' 

 are : Banewort, Belladonna, Naughty Man's Cherry, 

 Daft-berries, Deadly Nightshade, Death's Herb, 

 Dwale, Deadly Dwale, Dway-berries, Jacob's Ladder, 

 Mad, Manicon, Mekilwort, Great Morel, Sleeping 

 Nightshade. 



The plant is poisonous, and formed part of the 

 drug Dwale. 



Atropa Belladonna. — Fig. 36 shows the glossy^ 

 black bevries, which are round, and borne in the axils, 

 shortly-stalked, and solitary. 



54. The Plantain Group. 



In the Order Plantaginaceae there are about two 

 hundred species included in three genera. They 

 are natives of temperate regions, but some are 

 cosmopolitan. The British plants include the 

 Plantains and Shoreweed. These plants are annual 

 or perennial, and herbaceous. 



The plants are usually rosette plants and scapi- 

 gerous. The leaves are mainly radical, in tufts, or 

 spreading. The veins are parallel. Stem-leaves are 

 unusual, and either opposite or alternate. The 

 leaves are stalkless, without stipules. 



Flowers are borne in heads or spikes, and are not 

 large, being green, hermaphrodite, unisexual in Shore- 

 weed, regular, without bracteoles. 



The calyx is four-partite, with persistent sepals, 



