14 OBSERVATIONS on 



DEADLY NIGHTSHADE. 



Belladonna. Rays Syn, 265. 



Solanum melano cerafus. C. Bauhine. 



Atropa caule herbaceo, foliis ovatis integris. 

 Lin. Sp. PL 260. Gerard. Hiji. Plant. 

 340. Moris, HiJi. 



Solanum lethale. Park, 346. 



' M ^ H E root is long, large, and creep- 

 JL ing. 



The ftalks are upright, firm, numerous 

 branched, and herbaceous. 



The leaves are egg-fliaped, entire, very 

 large, fmooth at the edges, pointed a little 

 at the extremities, and of a beautiful green 

 colour. 



The flowers ftand on fingle foot ftalks: 



they are formed of one petal ; bell-fliaped, 



and very lightly divided into five fegments 



at the edge. Their colour is a dark dead 



purple. 



The 



