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BOTANY AND PHARMACOGNOSY. 



naturalized in waste places (p. 372). The leaves are collected 

 shortly after flowering from biennial plants of the second year's 

 growth, and carefully dried and preserved. The commercial 

 article comes chiefly from Germany. 



Fig. 267. Leaves and fruits of solanaceous drugs: A, D, Belladonna; B, F, Stramo 



nium; C, E, Hyoscyamus. 



Description. Usually in irregular, matted fragments. Stem 

 hollow, cylindrical, flattened, longitudinally furrowed and wrin- 

 kled, 3 to 4 mm. in diameter ; internodes i to 3.5 cm. long. Leaves 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate. 5 to 10 cm. long. 2 to 7 cm. broad, apex 

 acuminate ; base amplexicaul ; margin acutely four-lobed ; upper 



