4 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 

 SOLANUM TUBEROSUM {Cultivated in Britain). 5. 



COMMON POTATO. 



Solanacece.—A tuber.— Stem herbaceous.— Leaflets ovate. 

 —Flowers in racemes.— 1 ft.; annual; June-August; bright 

 purple; stamens yellow. — Fruit green. {Fatalities.) 



Toxic Principle.— SOLARISE. 



Let the sky rain potatoes^ 

 , . . I will shelter me here. 



Shakespeabe : " Merry Wives of Windsor.'^ 



SOLANUM CRISPUM {Cultivated in Britain). 6. 



POTATO TREE. 



Solanacece. — Stem woody. — A wall climber. — Leaves ovate. 

 — Flowers in clusters. — perennial; June-August; 6 ft.; light 

 purple; stamens yellow. ^ 



Toxic Principle.— SOLASINE, also contained in S. baha- 

 mense, S. carolinense, S. Lycopersicum, Scopala atrapoides, 

 S. japonica, S. verbascifolium. 



No purple bloom the Child 

 of Nature brings 

 From flattery^ s nightshade . . . 



Coleridge : '' To a Yourig Lady.'' 



MANDRAGORA OFFICINALIS. 

 MANDRAGORA VERNALIS {S. Europe). 7. 



COMMON MANDRAKE — MEDICINAL MANDRAKE — DEVIL's APPLES. 



Solanacece. — A herb; hardy; perennial; almost stemless. — 

 Root spindle-shaped, forked, 4-5 ft. — Flower white to bluish, 

 odour foetid, large, reticulately veined; corolla campanulate, 

 5-fid, lobes broad, flat, imbricated; May.— Fruit, a large 

 berry. — Leaves petiolate, oblong - lanceolate and ovate, 

 undulated; 1 ft. long; tasteless. 



Toxic Principle.— mA^DBAGORlNE, 



Quit, quit, for shame! this will not move. 



This cannot take her ; 



If of herself she will not love. 



Nothing can make her ; 



The D 1 take her ! 



Suckling: " Encouragements to a Lover.^* 



