136 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
lady friend of his, when a girl at school in 
Germany, had her life saved, after eating some, 
only by being enveloped in mustard poultice 
for 24 hours. A countryman had warned her, 
as he thought, by repeatedly calling out 
“ Schone Frau /” the German equivalent of the 
name Bella-donna; but the exclamation was 
regarded as a rustic compliment, and the real 
intention was not discovered until too late. 
The Henbane, /Yyoscyamus niger, is also a 
valuable medicinal plant; the whole plant is 
clammy, with a disagreeable odour; corolla 
about an inch across, yellowish, dark in the 
centre, with a network of purple. The cap- 
sules form a very long spike, and are ventricose, 
swollen at base, and opening with a lid. The 
Potato is a Solanum; and though so valuable 
for its tubers, formed on what are really under- 
ground stems, it yields from its leaves an ex- 
tract which is strongly narcotic. The Tomato 
belongs to the same Nat. Order; so also does 
Physalis Alkekengt, which, from its globular 
scarlet fruit within its finally net-like calyx, 
is called Winter Cherry. The Petunia also 
belongs to this Order. } 
Several aquatic plants worthy of note be- 
