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struction. Only half one of these fruits is said to have proved 

 fatal, producing a deadly stupor. To make the patients swallow 

 vinegar, and to keep them from sleeping, may avert the fatal 

 consequences. Emetics do not take effect. The leaves applied 

 externally, as well as taken in powder, or infusion, have been 

 recommended to cure cancers ; but their use in any way occa- 

 sions dreadful uneasiness, horrors and swoonings, so that few 

 practitioners can persevere long in prescribing so distressing and 

 ambiguous a remedy. 



116. SOLANUM. Nightshade. 



Lin7i. Gen. 160. Juss. 126. Fl.Br.2h6. Dunal. Solan. Ua. Tourn. 

 t. 62. Lam. ^ 115. Gcertn. <. 131. 



Nat. Orel, see n. 112. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5, more or less deep, acute seg- 

 ments, permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, wheel-shaped ; tube 

 very short; limb much longer, reflexed, plaited, in 5 

 acute, equal, rather deep, segments. Filam. short, awl- 

 shaped. Anth. much longer, oblong, angular, converging, 

 sometimes unequal, opening by two terminal pores. Germ. 

 roundish. Style thread-shaped, projecting beyond the 

 anthers, deciduous. Stigma obtuse, simple or notched. 

 Berry roundish or ovate, smooth, with a terminal scar ; 

 of 2, occasionally more, cells, with a fleshy receptacle to 

 each, connected with the pai'tition. Seeds numerous, 

 roundish, compressed, imbedded in pulp; sometimes 

 minutely dotted. 



A numerous, principally tropical, genus of shrubs or herbs, 

 more or less narcotic, though in some cases rendered 

 eatable by cookery. Stem leaf}', in some exotic species 

 prickly. Leaves alternate, stalked, rarely decurrent, mostly 

 simple, often variously lobed ; in some compound. Ft. 

 variously disposed, sohtary or aggregate, drooping, in- 

 odorous. Anth. yellow, prominent. Cor. generally pur- 

 plish, or white. Lycopersicum seems well distinguished 

 as a genus by M. Dunal, after the example of lourne- 

 fort and others. 



1 . S. Dulcamara. Woody Nightshade. Bitter-sweet. 



Stem shrubby, zigzag, without thorns. Upper leaves hastate. 

 Clusters cymose. 



S. Dulcamara. Linn. Sp. PI. 264. IVilld. v. 1. 1028. Fl. Br. 256. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 8. t. 365. Curt. Land. fasc. 1. t. 14. M'oodv. Med. 



