The BRITISH HERBAL. 
toward the bafc : they Hand 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 hoiiow. 
The feed-veffel is of an oval figure, and of 
the bignefs of a walnut: it is covered vvith fliort, 
fharp prickles. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
Many infet'-ls are fond of the fleOiy part of this 
feed-veflel j fo that, when it has hung fome time 
on the plant, it is not uncommon to ftc it eaten 
away between the folid parts, which then re- 
maining entire, bleach in the air, and fhew its 
(keleton. 
It is a native of the fouthern parts of America, 
and flowers in Auguft. 
■ C. Bauhint: calls it i'f/iJHKffi fativumfru^u fpi- 
nofo obtongo fiorc albo. Others, Stramomum, and 
Datura fnicfu ovato. 
1. Round Thornapplc. 
StraniQuiiim fruSlu rohindo. 
The root is long, thick, divided, and fpread- 
ing. 
The ftalk is round, firm, thick, and two feet 
high. 
Tiic leaves are numerous, and of a flrong 
green. 
They ftand irregularly, and are of a heart-like 
figure, only not indented : they are broadell: 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. 
1 he 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 chcfnut. 
It is a native of Africa and Afia, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhi,nc c:A\^\x. Solanum frutlu -paToo fpinofo 
rotundo longo fiore. Others, Metel, 
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3, Small-fruited Thornapple. 
Stramonium fruUu mimre. 
The root is large, divided, and fpreading. 
The flalks are numerous, woody, firm, and 
four yards high : they are irregular in thtir 
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, Iharp- 
pointed fegments. 
The flowers are numerous, large, and beauti- 
ful : they rife from the (talks near the inftrtions 
of the leaves, and have fhort pedicles : they are 
pi,irplifh on the outfide, white as fnow within, 
and divided at the edge into fegments, 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, fofc 
prickles, and fometimes only rough on the fur- 
facc. The flower alfo is frequently double. 
It is a native of Egypt and fame parts ot the 
eaft-, and flowers in Autumn. 
C. Bauhine calls it Solamm fivt'idum ; fru5lu 
fpinofo rotundo fcmine palUdo. 
The leaves have an ill fmell j bnt the flowers 
are fweet. 
Alpinus calls it Datura contrarma. Others, 
Datura, the name Linnsus gives the genus. 
The feeds of the common thornapple, taken in- 
wardly, difl:urb the brain, and bring on a kind 
of niadnefs. 
Externally ufed, when frcHi gathered and 
bruifed, they are extolled greatly for the cure of 
the h'-rpes. 
An ointment of the leaves is alfo coolins;. 
The root, dryed and powdered, may be given 
as an opiate : five or fix grains for a dofe. It 
alleviates pain, and procures rcfl:. 
The virtues of the plant are the fame with 
thofe of opium, but it has them in a more vio- 
lent and unmanageable degree. 
GENUS III. 
MOUNTAIN SANICLE. 
CO R r V S J. 
fyiHE 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 dividexi into five open fegments, and remains with the 
feed-veffel. 
Linnsus places this among the pcntmdria monogynia ; the threads in the centre of the flower being 
five, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the capfule fimple. ^ 
They are of a d.!rl; green on the upper and 
under fide, and of an acrid tafte. 
Among thefe rife feveral flalks, which are 
round, flendcr, redifli, naked, and fix inches 
high: they are ufually redifh toward the bot" 
torn, 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 flalk, in the manner of the auricula 
C c or 
Corlufa alpina. 
The root is compofed of numerous long and 
flcnder fibres. 
The leaves rife in a thick duller : they are 
fupported on long footftalks, and are broad, 
roundidi, and deeply divided inro fegments, 
which are again ferrated at their edges. 
