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1135. S. nigrum, L. 7 10, A. Waste and cult, ground ; v. com. 



S. TUBEROSUM is the potato ; S. LYCOPERSICUM, L. (Lyco- 

 PERSICUM ESCULENTUM, Mill), the Tomato. 



1136. LYCIUM barbarum, L. " TEA-PLANT," 68, shrub. Alien, 



cultivated. Freq. in hedges aud against houses. 



1. Top of Shooter's Hill, in hedge, '06. J.F.B. 



1137. ATROPA belladonna, L. (DEADLY NIGHTSHADE), 6 8, P. 



Waste places, woods, and thickets ; local on the chalk. 

 Protogynous humble bee fls. 



1. Woods at Hailing, and Shoreham (plentiful). H. & M. 



2. Slopes E. of Trottescliffe. Dod. 



3. In chalk-pit near Keston, '97. Kennard. 



4. Chalk bank between Keston and Down, long estab- 



lished, '06. W.H.G. 

 a. Lane between Plumstead Lane and Abbey Farm, 1793. 



1138. DATURA stramonium, L. (THORN APPLE), 6 7, A. Casual^ 



waste ground and rubbish heaps, garden escapes. 



1. Woolwich Arsenal, sporadically. Dod. 



2. Gravel-pit in new road between foot of Bromley Hill 



and Ravensbourne, '05 ; occasional pis. seen in the 

 same locality for several years past. W.H.G. 



3. Heap of ballast in builder's yard, Belvedere, six plants, 



'05. R.H.C. 



4. Naturalised in Deer Park, Greenwich Park, the sloping 



banks of a disused gravel-pit having fostered it for 

 at least half a century, '01. A.D.W. 



1139. HYOSCYAMUS niger, L. (HENBANE), 57, B. Waste and 



bushy places on the chalk,often only garden escapes. Humble 

 bee fls. 



1. About Practice Butts, Plumstead Marshes. Dod. 



2. Dartford Common and gravel -pit ; pasture at Darenth. 



Dod. 



3. Isle of Grain. Jackson. 



4. Bushy places above Hailing. M. and Dod. 



5. Well established on chalk slope, near footpath, in 



Lullingstone Park, '05. W.H.G. 



6. Gravel-pit, Hayes, one pi. '05. F.M.R. 



7. Greenwich Park and Avery Hill (wild). 



NOTE. Cultivated plants of the order are : Nicotiana tabacum, 

 L. (tobacco), Physalis (Winter Cherry), Petunia, Capsicum annuum, L. 

 (Chillies), Schizanthus and Mandragora (Mandrake). 



