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NIGHTSHADE. 
SOLANUM. 
HE flower is formed of a fingle petal, deeply divided into five fegments. The cup is made of 
a fingle piece, and in the fame manner divided into five fegments. 
The fruit is a roundifh 
berry. The feeds are numerous, and are contained in two cells. 
Linneus places this among the pentandria monogynia; the threads in the flower being five, and the 
flyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
DP VETS 1 OoN cI. 
1. Woody Nightthade. 
Solanum lignofum. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick 
fibres. 
The ftalks are woody, but weak : they are co- 
‘vered with a brown bark toward the bottom; 
but it is paler in the tenderer parts. 
The leaves are placed on long footftalks; and 
they are broad, oblong, and pointed. Thofe to- 
ward the lower part of the plant are undivided ; 
but thofe toward the top have one or two nicks, 
making a kind of ears near the bafe. a 
The flowers are placed in clufters upon flen-. 
der footftalks: they are fmall, and of a dark | 
purple, with yellow heads of the threads in the 
middle. 
The berries are large, oblong, and, when ripe, 
of a very fine red. =, 
Tt is common in damp grounds, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Solanum fcandens feu dulca- 
mara, Others, Solanum lignofum. 
2. Sea Woody Nightfhade. 
Dulcamara maritima, 
The root is compofed of a multitude’of large 
fibres, 5 
The ftalks are numerous, woody, and covered 
with a grey bark; and the young twigs are of a 
deep green. 
The leaves are oblong, and irregularly dented 
with a few deep notches: they are of a bluifh green, 
The flowers are few and large: they ftand in 
fpreading tufts, and are of a paler blue than in 
the common kind, but of the fame form. f 
The berries are oblong, and, when ripe, black. 
DIVISION Il, FO 
1. Common Tree Nightfhade. 
Solanum fruticofum anguftifolium. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres. 
The ftem is firm, woody, and covered with a 
brown bark: the plant is a yard or more in 
height, and fpreads into branches in a regular | 
and elegant manner. / 
The leaves are long, flender, and of a beau- 
tiful green. 
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We have it about the fea-coafts in the north. 
It flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Solanum lignofum, feu dulcamarg 
marina. 
The woody nightfhade, though of the Solanum 
kind, has no dangerous qualities. It Operates 
gently by ftool, and opens obftru@tions of the 
vifcera. The woody part of the ftem has moft 
virtue. A decoction of this is good in the jaun- 
dice. j ; 
g. Common Wild Nightfhade. 
Solanum vulgare. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres. 
The ftalk is round, green, thick, and of a 
firm fubftance: it fpreads out into numerous 
branches, and is two feet high. 
The leaves are placed on long footftalks : they 
are oblong, broad, fharp-pointed, and of a deep 
green. ee. 
The flowers are finall and white: they ftand 
in clufters eight or ten together, and haye yellow 
buttons in the middle. ee ee: 
The berries are round, and, when they are 
ripe, black. 
It is common in ‘cultivated ground, and no 
where fo much as in the borders of gardens. It 
flowers in Auguft. : Rae atlas 
C. Bauhine calls it Solanum bacciferum primum 
Sive officinarum. Others, Solanum vulgare, and, 
from its growing in gardens, Solanum hor- 
tenfe. 
The leaves of ‘this’ kind are ufed: externally as 
cooling and repellent ; but, if not managed with 
caution, they may be dangerous. 
R.E IG’N..-S-P-E:@)1-B'S, 
The flowers ftand fingly on fhort footitalks 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves: they are 
large and white, with yellow buttons in the 
centre, 
The berries are large, round, and of a bright 
fine red. ’ 
It is a native of America, and flowers in au- 
tumn, 
C. Bauhine calls it Solanum fruticofum batcife- 
rum. Others, Strychuodendron, and Amomum Plinii. 
2. Love-Apple. 
