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A SIXTEENTH CENTURY ILLUSTRATION OF DATURA 



This is ;i icdiKi-d rc-prodiiction of Fiichsiiis's illustration figured in 1542 iiiidiT the nanu- 

 "Stramonia," or l<au(hac|)(T(lkraiil iDalura mclel I,). It was recognized l)> the botanists of 

 that time as a solanaceous plant, hut the genus Datura was established two centuries later by 

 Linnaeus. (Fig. 1 1 J. 



