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Just before going to press the following note reached me from 

 Dr. Henry Wharton : — 



ADDENDUM TO THE FLORA OF HAMF^STEAD. 



Solanacece : — Atropa Belladonna. 



A single shrub of Deadly Nightshade, of exceptional size, grows 

 by the side of the Midland Railway a quarter of a mile north 

 of Mill Lane. Some workmen, on Sept. 22, 1889, found its 

 berries so sweet and palatable that they ate large quantities, 

 and gave many to their friends, some of whom made a pie of 

 them. In all, ten people, adults and children, were taken to 

 St. Mary's Hospital, most of them half-blind and in a violent 

 delirium ; but they all recovered. The discoverer ate quite 

 half a pint, but subsequent vomiting saved him from the worst 

 consequences. The plant must have been brought by the 

 railway from some calcareous district, for it occurs nowhere 

 else in Middlesex nearer than Harefield. 



'UNWIN BKOTHKRS, THE GKESHAM PRESS, CHILWOKTH AND LONDbts 



