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toward the bafe: they ftand iregularly, and are 
of a firm texture. 
The flowers grow at the divifions of the 
branches, and are very large, and of a fnow 
white, long, tubular, and hollow. 
The feed-veffel is of'an oval figure, and of 
the bignefs of a walnut: it is covered with fhort, 
fharp prickles. _ 
The feeds are large and brown. 
Many infects are fond of the flefhy part of this 
feed-veftel ; fo that, when it has hung fome time 
on the plant, it is not uncommon to fee it eaten 
away. between the folid parts, which then re- 
maining entire, bleach in the air, and fhew its 
fkeleton. 
It is a native of the fouthern parts of America, 
and flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Solanum fativum frudu fpi- 
nofo oblongo flere albo. Others, Stramonium, and 
Datura fruéiu ovato. 
2. Round Thornapple. 
Stramonium fruéiu rotunda. 
The root is long, thick, divided, and fpread- 
ing. 
“The ftalk is round, firm, thick, and two feet 
high. — 
The leaves are numerous, and of a ftrong 
green. 5 
They ftand irregularly, and are of a heart-like 
figure, only not indented: they are broadeft at 
the bafe, and all the way fmaller to the point, 
and they have long footftalks: they are fome- 
what waved, but not indented at the edges. 
‘The flowers rife from the bofoms of the leaves 
and at the infertions of the branches, and they 
are large, long, hollow, and white. 
The fruit is round, prickly, and of the bignefs 
of a chefnut. 
It is a native of Africa and Afia, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Solanum fruéiu parvo JSpinofo 
rotundo longo flore. Others, Mere, 
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3. Small-fruited Thornapple. 
Stramonium frulu minore. 
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The root is large, divided, and {preading. 
The ftalks are numerous, woody, firm, and 
four yards high: they are irregular in their 
growth, and very much branched, 
The leaves ftand on long footftalks, and are 
of a beautiful green: they are oblong, and very 
, deeply divided into a kind of broad, fharp- 
pointetl fegments. 
The flowers aré numerous, large, and beauti- 
ful: they rife from the ftalks near the infertions 
of the leaves, and have fhort pedicles: they are 
purplith on the outfide, white as fnow within, 
and divided at the edge into feements, which ter- 
minate in a kind of tails. 
The fruit is round, and of the bignefs of a 
cobnut : it is fometimes covered with flight, foft 
prickles, and fometimes only rough on the fur- 
face. The flower alfo is frequently double. 
It is a native of Egypt and fome parts of the 
eaft; and flowers in Autumn. 
 C. Bauhine calls it Sclanum fatidum fructu 
JSpinofo rotundo femine pallido. 
The leaves have an ill fmell; but the flowers 
are {weet. 
Alpinus calls it Datura contrarena. Others, 
Datura, the name Linnzus gives the genus. 
The feeds of the common: thornapple, taken in- 
wardly, difturb the brain, and bring on a kind 
of madnefs. 
Externally ufed, when frefh gathered and 
bruifed, they are extolled greatly for the cure of 
the herpes. 
An ointment of the leaves is alfo cooling. 
The root, dryed and powdered, may be given 
as an opiate: five or fix grains fora dofe. It 
alleviates pain, and procures reft, 
The virtues of the plant are the fame with 
thofe of opium, but it has them in'a more vio- 
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lent and unmanageable degree. 
III. 
SPA NelaG «Lek. 
CORTUSA. 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, tubular a little way at the bottom, and divided into five 
fegments at the edge: the fruit is a fingle capfule, of an oblong, oval figure, pointed, and 
furrowed : the cup is very fmall, but divided into five open fegments, and remains.with the 
feed-veffel. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia; the threads in the centre of 
five, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the capfule fimple. 
1. Alpine Cortufa. 
Cortufa alpina, 
The root is compofed of numerous long and 
flender fibres. 
The leaves rife in a thick clufter: they are 
fupported on long foorftalks, and are broad, 
roundith, and deeply divided into fegments, 
which are again ferrated at their edges. 
SLO, 
the flower being 
They are of a dark green on the upper and 
under fide, and of an acrid tafte. 
Among thefe rife feveral ftalks, which are 
round, flender, redifh, naked, and fix inches 
high: they are ufually redifh toward the bot- 
tom, and pale at the top. ’ 
The flowers are moderately large, and of a 
beautiful flrong red: they grow in a tuft at the 
top of the ftalk, in the manner of the auricula 
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