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KIDNEY or FRENCH- 

 BEANS. Vide Phafeolus. 



BEAN-TREFOIL. Vide Cy- 

 tifus. 



BEARVEAR. Vide Auricula. 



BEARVEAR SANICLE. Vide 

 Verbafcum. 



BEARVFOOT. Vide Hel- 

 leborus. 



BEE, or GNAT -FLOWER. 



Vide Orchis. 



BEECH-TREE. Vide Fagus. 



BELL-FLOWER. Vide Campa- 

 nula. 



BELLADONA, Deadly Night- 

 fhade. 



The Characters are ; 



// hath a bell-Jhaped Flower, con- 

 Jifting of one Leaf winch is divided 

 into five acute Segments at the Top : 

 each of tbefe Flowers is fucceed.d by 

 a globular foft Fruit, which is di- 

 vided into two Cells, in which are 

 lodged the Seeds. 



The Species are ; 



1. Belladona majcrihus foliis 

 & fori. us. Toum. The common 

 Deadly Nightfhade. 



2. Belladona minor ibus fcliis 

 & for ibus. Toum. Deadly Night- 

 fnade with fmaller Leaves and 

 Flowers. 



3. Felladona frutefcens rotun- 

 difolia Hfpanica. Tourn. Shrubby 

 Spanijh Deadly Nightfnade, with a 

 rou:;d Leaf. 



4. Belladona Americana frute- 

 fcens, fore albo, nicotians folio. Plum. 

 Cat. Shrubby American Der.dJy 

 Nightfhade, with a white Flower, 

 and a Tobacco- leaf. 



5. Belladona Americana hcrba- 

 cea, foliis Cir corse latioribus, fore 

 alio. American herbaceous Deadly 

 Nightfhade, with broad Inchanters- 

 liigiitihade - leaves , and . a white 

 Flower. 



The nrftSort grows very common 

 in many Parts of England about 



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Farmers Yards, and in ftiady Lanes § 

 but is never kept in Gardens, unlefs 

 in thofe of Botamfts ; nor indeed 

 mould it be fuffered to grow in any 

 Places where Children refort ; for it 

 is a ftrong Poifon ; and there have 

 been feveral Inflances, within a few 

 Years part, of its deadly Quality, by 

 feveral Children being killed with 

 eating the Berries, which are of a 

 fine black Colour, and about the 

 Size of a black Cherry, and not un- 

 pleafant to the Tafte. 



Mr. Ray gives a good Account of 

 the various Symptoms it produces, 

 by what happened to a Mendicant 

 Frier, upon his drinking a Glafs of 

 Mallow-wine, in which this Plant 

 was infufed : in a fhort time he be- 

 came delirious ; loon after was feized 

 with a grinning Laughter ; after 

 that, feveral irregular Motions, and, 

 at lair, a real Madnefs, fucceeded, 

 and fuch a Stupidity as thofe that are 

 fottifhly drunk have; which, after 

 a'l, was cured by aDraught of Vine- 

 gar. 



There is alfo an Inftance of the 

 direful EfVecls of this Plant record- 

 ed in Buchanans Hiftory of Scotland, 

 wherein he gives an Account of the 

 Deitruction of the Army of Sweno, 

 when he invaded Scotland, by mix- 

 ing a Quantity of the Juice of thefe 

 Berries with the Drink which the 

 Scots by their Truce were to fupply 

 them with ; which fo intoxicated the 

 Danes, that the Scots fell upon them 

 in their Sleep, and killed the great- 

 er! Part of them, fo that there were 

 fcarcely Men enough left to carry 

 off their King. 



The fecond Sort is not fo com- 

 mon in England as the flrft ; but is 

 p refer ved in Botanic Gardens for 

 Variety. 



Thefe Plants are both eafily cul- 

 tivated, by fowing of their Seeds in 

 the Spring on any Soil, or in any Si- 

 tuation ; 



