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Time, — It flowers in June. 



Oovtmment and Virtues. — Venus owns this plant. The 

 whole plant is bitter; bruised and agitated witn water, it 

 raises a lather like soap, which easily washes greasy spots 

 out of clothes ; a decoction of it, applied externally, cures 

 the itch« It cures gonorrhoea, by taking the inspissated 

 juice of it to the amount of hall an ounce daily. 



SO'LANVM..—(Atropa Belladonna,) 



Called also Dwale, Solanum Lethale, S. Maniacum. 



Descrip. — This is the largest of the Nightshades, having 

 many thick, long, spreading roots, that shoot forth many 

 tall angular stalks, to a man's height or more, beset with 

 dull green leaves, larvrer than common Nightshade. The 

 flowers are set on among the leaves, singly on long foot- 

 stalks, and are large, hollow, and bell-fashioned, divided 

 into six segments at the ends, of a dusky brown, greenish 

 colour on the outside, and purplish within ; succeeded by 

 large, round, shining, blact berries, the size of cherries, 

 set on a brownish calyx, which contain a purplish juicy 

 pulp of a nauseous sweet taste, full of small flat seeds. 



Place. — It ^rrows not unf requently in many parts of thii 

 eountry, but it is a native of America. 



Time, — It flowers in July. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — Experience has proved this 

 to be one of the deadly poisons that nature produces. It 

 has a very beautiful apj)earance, but should be kept out 

 the way of children and others who may be attracted by it. 



SOLANUM (BERRY BEARING.)— (^o/anwrn 

 Bacciferum.) 



Deterip. — The roots of this her'h creep along the surface 

 of the earth, are slender, and of a brown colour, shooting up, 

 here and there, round ttalks about a foot high, with four, 

 though sometimes five or six leaves, which are broad ana 

 roundish, narrowest next the stalk, and ending in a sharp 

 point; from arooni? these a slender stalk arises two or three 

 mches high, bearing a flower, composed of four green leaves, 

 with as many narrow ones under them, of the same colour, 

 with several stamina among them ; in the middle grows a 

 round black berry, the siz«* of a graf)e, of an insipid taste. 



Place. — It is found in eood soil in moist shady woods. 



Time.~li flowers in May, and the berry ri|>ens in July. 



Oovemment and Virtues.— It is under the dominion of 

 8atam. It iji not poisonous, but is an excellent oouiHer- 



