Atropa Belladonna. Dwale, or Deadly 



Nightshade. 



ATROPA Lift. Gen. PL Pentandria Monogynia. 



Cor. campanu lata. Stam. diftantia, Bacca globofa, 2-locuIaris. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 16. Herboz Baccijerce. 



ATROPA Belladonna caule herbaceo, foliis ovatis integris. Lin. Syft. Vegetal, ed. 14. p. 221. 

 Sp. Plant, p. 260. 



BELLADONNA caule herbaceo, brachiato, foliis ovato lanceolatis, integerrimis. Haller. hijl. 

 n. 57a. 



BELLADONNA trichotoma. Scopoli Ft. Cam. n. 255. 



SOLANUM melanocerafas. Bauh. pin. 166. 



SOLANUM lethale. Ger. emac. 340. Parkin/1 34(3. Rail Syn. p. 265. Deadly Nightfhade, 

 Dwale. Had/on Fl. Angl. p. 93. Ligktjoot Ft. Scot. p. 144. Jacquin Fl. Aujlr. t. 309. 



RADIX perennis, crafla, albida, ramofa, repens. | ROOT perennial, thick, whitiih, branched, and 



\ creeping. 



CAULES plures, bafi digitum craffi, tripedales et j> STALKS feveral, at bottom the thicknefs of one's 

 ultra, ere6ti, herbacei, teretes, ramofi, in j finger, three feet or more high, upright, her- 



apricis fordide purpurei, pubefcentes. <?> baceous, round, branched, in expofed fitua- 



| tions of a dingy purple colour, downy. 



FOLIA petiolata, ovata, acuta, integerrima, utrin- 4 LEAVES {landing on footftalks, ovate, pointed, 

 que laevia, venofa, ad latera caulis ramo- | perfectly entire, fmooth on both fides, veiny, 



rumque gemina et magnitudine inaequalia, <j> growing in pairs (but unequal in iize) from 



inter quae pedunculus uniflorus et faepius | ' the fides of the ftalks, from betwixt them 



folitarius egreditur. § r jfes the flower-ftalk fupporting one flower, 



j> and ufuaily fingle. 



PEDUNCULI teretes, vifcidi, adflores paululum in- % FLOWER-STALKS round, vifcid, thickened fome- 

 craflati.^ | what next the flowers. 



FLORES cernui, inodori, fordide purpurei, fub- | FLOWERS drooping, fcentlefs, of a dingy purple 

 vifcidi, externe nitidi, venofi. colour, fomewhat vifcid, externally gloify 



% ar) d veiny. 



CALYX: Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- § CALYX: a Perianthium of one leaf, deeply di- 

 partitum, angulatum, laciniis ovato-acumi- | vided into five fegments, angular, the feg- 



natis, inaequalibus, vifcofis, jig. 1. § ments ovato-acuminate, unequal, and vif- 



| cous, Jig. 1. 



COROLLA monopetala, campanulata ; Tubus bre- $ COROLLA monopetalous, bell-iliaped ; Tube very 

 vidimus, albus, fubpentagonus ; Limbus h {hort, white, {lightly five-cornered ; Limb 



ventricofus, ovatus, ore quinquefido, patulo, § bellying out, ovate, mouth fpreading, divided 



laciniis fubaequalibus, Jig. 2. J> into five equal fegments, jig. 2. 



STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, albida, quorum | STAMINA: five Filaments, whitifh, two of which 

 duo paulo breviora, inferne paulo crafliora, <) are a little {hotter than the reft, fomewhat 



pilofa, apice incurva, longitudine tubi ; | thickeft towards the bafe, and hairy, bent 



Anthers magnae, didymae, lutefcentes, re- 4 down at top, the length of the tube ; An- 



motae, jig. 3. | ther^; large, double, yellowifli, and re- 



§ mote, jig. 3. 



PISTILLUM: Germen femiovatum, utrinque ful- | PISTILLUM : Germen femiovate, with a groove 

 catum, ad bafin glandula lutefcente cin6lum; " <o on each fide, furrounded at bottom with a 



Stylus filiformis, ftaminibus longior, in- | yellowifli gland; Style thread-fhaped, 



clinatus ; Stigma capitatum, affurgens, 4 longer than the ftamina, inclined do\vn- 



tranfverfo-oblongum, bilabiatum, viride, <> wards; Stigma forming a little head, tranf- 



fig. 4. \ verfely oblong, two-lip'd, of a green colour, 



h fig. 4. 



PERICARPIUM: Bacca atra,_ nitida, fubrotunda, \ SEED-VESSEL: a black, glolfy, roundifli Berry, 

 faporis dulcis, bilocularis, jig. 5, 6. of a fweet tafte, with two cavities, fig. 5» 6. 



SEMINA plurima, fufca, irregularia, fig. 7. | SEEDS numerous, brown, and irregular in fliape, 



fig- 7- 



Ob/. Semina fufcefcunt priufquam Bacca nigrefcit. ^ Obf. The feeds turn brown before the Berry becomes 



<?> black. 



The rage for building, joined to the numerous alterations perpetually making in the environs of London, 

 have been the means of extirpating many plants which formerly grew plentifully around us. To this caufe 

 we are to attribute the lofs of the prefent plant, which the late Sir William Watson and Mr. Stanesby 

 Alchorne of the Tower, gentlemen eminent for their knowledge of Britilh plants, have often alfured me 

 grew, within their remembrance, in feveral places near town; happily we are now under the neceflity of 

 going much further into the country, if we wifli to fee it grow wild. We have frequently noticed it in 

 many of the chalk-pits in Kent, and in both fhady and expofed fituations elfewhere ; in particular, w T e 

 remember to have ken it growing in great abundance on Keep-Hill, near High Wycomb, Buckinghamfhire. 

 Clofe by the fpot where we obferved it, there chanced to be a little boy ; I afked him, if he knew the plant? 

 He anfwered " Yes ; it was naughty mans cherries" I then inquired of him, if he had ever eaten any of the 

 berries ? He faid he had, with feveral other children from an adjoining poor-houfe, and that it made them 

 all very fick, but that none of them had died. 



Was not this plant fludioufly deflroyed wherever it is found wild, it would be much more common than 

 it is ; for there are few plants to which nature has been fo liberal in the means of increafe : it has a very 

 large perennial root, which runs deep into the earth, multiplies greatly, and frequently creeps underground 

 to a great diftance ; added to this, its berries are very numerous, and contain a prodigious quantity of feeds. 



Forbidding 



