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Enchanter’s Nightshade (Circaea Lutetiana, L.) 
This woodland wild flower is found in the North Temperate Zone 
in Europe, N. Africa, Siberia, Western Asia as far east as the 
Himalayas, and in temperate America, and there are no earlier 
records. In Great Britain it is general in the Peninsula, Channel, 
Thames, Anglia, and Severn provinces; and in S. Wales generally 
except in Radnor and Car- 
marthen; in N. Wales gene- 
rally except in Montgomery 
and Merioneth; in the Trent 
province everywhere except 
in S. Lines, throughout the 
Mersey, Humber, Tyne, and 
Lakes provinces. It is com- 
mon in the West Lowlands 
and in E. Lowlands, except 
in Peebles, Selkirk, and Lin- 
lithgow; in the E. High- 
lands, except in Stirling, 
Banff, and Elgin; in the 
West Highlands, except in 
Mid Ebudes; and in the 
N. Highlands, except in E. 
Sutherland. In Yorkshire 
it ascends to 1200 ft. 
Enchanter’s Nightshade 
is a familiar denizen of woods 
Photo. Messrs. Flatters & Garnett 
and COPSEs, preferring the ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE (Circ@a Lutetiana, L.) 
dark depths of shade beneath 
the outspreading branches of woodland trees, or else the comparative 
light diffused in the rides which intersect a wood, where it grows 
amid the wet herbage which grows rank and rife, untouched by 
browsing animals or the scythe. Occasionally it turns up in the 
garden or on waste ground. 
This plant has a characteristic habit, the central stem being nearly 
or suberect, with wide-spreading nearly patent branches, i.e. almost 
at right angles. It is purple in colour and downy. The leaves are 
egg-shaped at the base to heart-shaped, on long, nearly round or sub- 
rotund leaf-stalks, glandular, pale green underneath, and alternate. 
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