CHAP. LXXXIV. SOLANA\CEA. SOLA‘NUM. 1267 
.409.) A climbing shrub, a native of Europe, Asia, and North America, 
in hedges and among bushes ; plentiful in Britain ; flowers in June and July. 
Varieties. 
& S. D. 1 violdcea Hort. Eyst., p. 385. t. 384. No. 3.— Corollas violet. 
4 S. D. 2 dlba Lin. FI. Suec., p. 66.— Corollas white. There are 
plants of this variety in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. 
& S. D. 3 carnea Cels. Ups., 32.— Corollas flesh-coloured. 
4 S. D. 4 pléena Tourn. Inst., 149., Hort. Eyst., 1. c.—Corollas double. 
4 S. D. 5 variegata Munt., fig. 156., Tourn. Inst., 149., Lodd. €at., ed. 
1836. — Leaves variegated. 
& S. D.6 hirsita Don’s Mill, iv. p.409.; S. littorale Hort. — Plant 
hairy or downy. Flowers violet. Found on the sea coast. There 
are plants in Messrs. Loddiges’s collection. 
& S.D.7rupéstris Schmidt Fl. Bot., p.69.— Stem erect. Leaves ovate, 
quite entire. Racemes few-flowered, dichotomous. A native of Bo- 
hemia. (Don’s Mill., iv. p. 409.) 
Description, Properties, §c. The stems of this species are roundish, 
branched, twisted, and climbing by elongation, among other shrubs, and in 
hedges, to the height of 6 ft. or 8 ft. or upwards. When bruised, broken, or 
rubbed, they yield a strong and peculiar odour, not unlike that which proceeds 
from rats and mice. The roots smell like potatoes; and both roots and 
stalks, upon being chewed, first cause a sensation of bitterness, which is soon 
followed by a considerable degree of sweetness, whence the specific name. 
The plant has been in repute for its medical virtues since the days of Theo- 
phrastus, by whom it was called Vitis sylvéstris; by Pliny, it was called 
Melortum. Gerard, Boerhaave, Cullen, and others, attribute to the berries, 
and also to the leaves and stalks, many virtues; and the plant is still in great 
repute among rustic practitioners. In Wales a salve is made from the leaves, 
which is considered infallible in removing bruises. A decoction of the whole 
plant, or an infusion of the young twigs, is considered excellent in rheumatic 
cases, and also in jaundice and scurvy. The berries are poisonous; and, as 
they are common in hedges, they are very frequently eaten by children, 
on whom they operate by exciting violent vomiting and purging. To lessen 
their deleterious effects, warm water should be administered immediately, and 
in large quantities, to dilute the poison, and provoke vomiting. To prevent 
vomiting, when an infusion or decoction of the plaut is taken medicinally, it is 
diluted with milk. (Smith’s Eng. Fl., i. p.118.) Trained to a single stem, to 
the height of 6 ft. or 8 ft., and supported by a strong iron rod, with a parasol 
top, this common hedge weed might form a very handsome gardenesque 
pendulous tree. The Acheréntia A’tropos Fab., in its larva state (fig. 1081. in 
p- 1253.) feeds on the bitter-sweet and the elder, as well as on the common 
white jasmine. 
# 2, S.surFRUTICO'’sUM Schousb. The suffruticose Nightshade. 
ae. Schousb. ex Willd. Enum., p.236.; Dun. Sol., p. 154.; Syn., p.13.; Don’s Mill, 4. 
p. 415, 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem unarmed, suffruticose. Leaves ovate, dentately angular, nearly glabrous, 
ciliated. Flowers subpanicled (ex Dun.). Umbels extra-foliaceous, pedunculate (ex Wélld.). 
Branches 2-edged, or quadrangularly winged from the decurrence of the petioles. Angles tooth 
Leaves large, glaucous, covered above with soft hairs while young. Flowers white. Berries black. 
Very like fe nigrum ; but the stem is shrubby, the leaves larger, and the flowers more numerous, 
&c. (Don’s Mill., 4. p. 413.) A shrub, a native of Barbary, where it grows to the height of 4 ft., and 
flowers from May till September. It was introduced in 1804; but we have not seen the plant. 
#4 3. S.cri’spum R. & S. The curled-/eaved Solanum. 
Identification. Roem. et Schult. Sp. Pl., 4 p. 595. ; Fl. Peruv., 2. f. 1. t. 158. fa. ; Dunal Solan., 159. ; 
Syn. p. 16. No. 78.; Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1516. ; Don’s Mill, 4. p. 414, 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1516. ; and our fig. 1105. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem shrubby. Leaves ovate, subcordate, wavedly curled, 
acuminate. Flowers corymbose. (Ram, et Schult. Sp. Pl., iv. p.95.) Leaves 
all simple, undivided, ovate, or cordate, acuminate, petiolate, slightly curled 
at the margin ; younger leaves powdery, but full-grown ones green. Cymes 
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