212 FLOWERS OF WASTE PLACES, ETC. 



and veined. There is a smaller leaf below each leaf, due possibly to 

 displacement, the leaf-stalk being united below with following shoots 

 as though arising from it. 



The flower-stalks are axillary, and the flowers are drooping, bell- 

 shaped, dingy-purple, clammy, glossy, and veined. The berry is black, 

 velvety, round, sweet, bilocular, with brown seeds. 



The Deadly Nightshade is 3-5 ft. high. It flowers in June and 

 July. It is perennial, increased by division of the root. 



The flower is bell-shaped, drooping, monopetalous, tubular, enlarged 



I'hoto. J. H. Crabtr 



DEADLY NIGHTSHADE (Atropa Belladonna, L.) 



below, spreading above, with a short tube. There are 5 anther-stalks, 

 bent below the anthers, 2 shorter, thicker at the base, hairy, bent 

 inwards at the top, and as long as the tube. The anthers are large 

 and yellow, with slits, and double. The anther-stalks lengthen after 

 the anthers are ripe. The pistil is grooved both sides with a honey- 

 gland at the base. The stigma ripens first, and projects beyond the 

 anthers. The style is thread-like, longer than the stamens, inclined 

 downwards; the stigma is pin-headed, two-lipped, green. The plant is 

 adapted for cross-pollination by medium -sized humble bees, bees visiting 

 it and also Thrips. Honey is secreted at the base of the ovary, and 

 protected by stiff hairs on the stamens. 



The fruit is a 2-lobed berry, which falls around the parent plant, or 

 is dispersed by animals, birds, or man. 



