DATURA. 
107 
This idea perhaps originated from an accident which occurred 
some 40 years ago, when 2 or 3 children, having eaten a few of 
the seeds, escaped by timely medical assistance with no further 
harm than the effects of an overdose of Atropa Belladonna L. 
Still there is something perceptibly oppressive in an evening in 
too long or close inhalement of the powerful aromatic fragrance 
of the A. 
B. sanguinea (Ruiz et Pav.)=i?. bicolor Pers., Lindl. Bot. 
Reg. t. 1739 = Datura sanguinea Dun. in DC. xiii. 1. 545, oc- 
curs frequently in gardens. 
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tf4. Datura L. 
* Caps, erect. 
tfl- D. Stramonium L. Thorn-apple. Bufareira. 
Smooth or glabrescent fetid ; st. erect short stout smooth 
round simple, dichotomously branched at top, branches like the 
st. hard rigid woody, stiffly spreading ; 1. stalked ovate or ovate- 
oblong acute or acuminate cuneate and unequal at the base, 
coarsely sharply and unequally sinuate-toothed; ti. erect solitary 
in the forks of the st. and branches, shortly stalked ; cor. about 
twice the length of the smooth 5-winged 5-toothed pale gr. cal., 
w. or violascent ; base of cal. in fr. reliexed ; caps, ovoidal sub- 
equally echinate. — Brot. i. 169 ; Koch 586 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 
546 ; Dun. in DC. xiii. 540 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 533. — Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2. — Varr. : — 
a. genuina Gr. et Godr. 1. c. ; wholly gr., cor. w. — I). Stra- 
monium Linn. Sp. 255 ; FI. Dan. t. 436 ; Yill. Dauph. ii. 488 ; 
Lam. 111. no. 2289, t. 113 ; Diet. vii. 459 ; Desf. i. 187 ; EB. 
t. 1288 ; Pers. i. 216 ; Ait. II. K. i. 387 ; Buch 193. no. 186 ; Sm. 
E. El. i. 314 ; Spr. i. 627 ; WB. iff. 118 ; Seub. El. Az. 38 ; Coss. 
et Germ. 277 ; Webb Spic. Gorg. 162; J. A. Selim. FI. Verd. 235; 
Bab. 234; Griseb. W. I. El. 434. — Mad. reg. 2, r. Corn-fields, 
waste ground and roadsides at the Achada of P t0 Moniz; a weed 
in the late Mr. Webster Gordon’s kitchen garden at the Mount, 
30 or 40 years ago. Aug.-Oct. 
/3. chalgbcea Koch 1. c. ; st., branches, petioles, nerves of 1. be- 
neath, cal. and cor. v. or v. -purple. — Gren. et Godr. 1. c. ; Willk. 
et Lange 1. c. 1). Stramonium (3. Tatula Dun. in DC. 1. c. 1). 
Tatula Linn. Sp. 256 ; Poir. in Lam. Diet. vii. 4(51 ; Pers. i. 216 ; 
Ait. II. K. i. 387 ; Spr. i. 627 ; Coss. et Germ. 277 ; Griseb. W. 
I. El. 434. — Mad. reg. 1, Back of the beach and roadsides at 
Machico, S ta Cruz &c. May-Dec. 
