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.'^7- Cynanchum hirtuMj L. — Large Yellow Swallow Wbrt, or 

 Nightshade. 



This plant is met with in shady places, climbing on the 

 neighbouring bushes. The stem is woody ; the leaves are 

 opposite, shining, and of a lively green. The blossoms are 

 yellow and funnel shaped, and the pods contain many seeds 

 imbedded in a silky down. 



This is universally said to be a very destructive poison, 

 and to be used as such by the merciless slaves here. Hap- 

 pily for us we have a powerful antidote in .the bastard sen- 

 sitive plant. 



38. Echites suberecta, L. — Lesser Yellow Swallow Wort, or 

 Nightshade. 



The lesser yellow swallow wort, or nightshade, has woody 

 stalks, and small yellow contorted flowers. It twists round 

 bushes and trees, principallv the logwood. The leaves are 

 small and opposite ; on plucking them off" or breaking them, 

 a milky juice oozes out. The pod is small and long, contain- 

 ing a few seeds, with a small quantity of a silken down. 



39. Echites torulosa, L. — Small Yellow Nightshade, or 

 Srvallow Wort. 



This delights in waste lands, or waste places, and climbs 

 on the adjacent bushes ; it flowers in May, and its long pods 

 are ripe in August. Like others of its genus, it is looked on 

 as deleterious, and it is carefully avoided by every animal. 



40. Solanum pseudo-capsicum, L. — Blue Nightshade, with 

 While Flowers. 



This poisonous plant grows in copses, by road-sides and 



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