NAT. ORDER. 

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ATROl'A BELLADONNA. DEADLY NIGHT-SHADE. 



Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. ' • 



Gen. Chat: Corolla, bcii-slmped. Stamina, distant. Berry, glob- 

 ular, two-celled. 



Spe. Char. Stalk, herbaceous. Leaves, oval and entire. 



The Atro])a Belladonna is a native of Europe, where it grows 

 in shady places, along the walls and amid rubbish ; it flowers in June 

 and July, and ripens its fruit in September ; it is frequently cultiva- 

 ted m our gardens, and rises from three to five feet in height. The 

 fruit is a roundish berry, contained within the calyx, of a blackish 

 color and pulpy, having several kidney-shaped seeds; root thick, 

 branching ; stem tinged with pui'ple ; the branches dichotomous ; 

 leaves rather large, soft to the touch, and a little hairy on both surfaces ; 

 corolla large, lurid, dusky-pm-ple within, and streaked with a yellow 

 variegated base, but greenish-red or dusky brown outside. 



Atropa virdiflora. Green-flowered Deadly Night-Shade. This 

 IS a twining shrub, rising from ten to twenty feet in height, where it 

 can find support ; stem sufli-uticose ; leaves twin, elliptic-ovate, sub- 

 acuminated, quite entire, hairy; peduncles two-flowered; flowers, 

 drooping ; limb of the corolla ten-cleft ; corolla tubularly fumiel-shap- 

 ed, green, three or four times longer than the calyx, hairy, and fur- 

 nished with five tubercles on the outside at the base ; filaments 

 glabrous, dilated at the base. It is a native of New Granada, be- 

 tween the town of Pasto and Chilanquer, on the high lands. 



Atropa aspcra. Rough Deadly Night-^iade. This species rises 



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