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2. Atropa caule fruticofo. Spec. Plant. 182. 
Bella -donna fruteficens rotundifolia flifpanica. 
Tourn. Inft. 77. 
Solanum frutex rotundifolium Hifpanicum. Bar- 
ril. Obf. 2. Icon. 1173. 
Round- leaved Jhrubby Spanijh Bella-donna. 
3. Atropa foliis fmuato-angulatis, calycibus claufis 
acutangulis. Spec. Plant. 181. 
Bella-donna flore magno violaceo. Hill. Herb. 
Brit. 325?. 
Alkekengi amplo flore violaceo. Few. Per. 724. 
tab. 16. 
Large violet-flower d Bella-donna , or Deadly Night- 
floade . 
The firft of the fpecies here enumerated is the 
plant in queftion. The fecond has been found grow- 
ing naturally in no other country than Spain. The 
third was firft difcovered by Father Feuillee in Peru, 
and is therefore only an inhabitant of the gardens 
in this part of the world. 
The Description. 
The root is perennial. It is pretty long, and di- 
vided into many branches of a brown colour, fuccu- 
lent, and of a difagreeable fmell. The radical leaves 
are frequently a foot long, and five inches broad, of 
an oval acuminated figure, and not finuated on the 
edges. The ftalk rifes to three or four feet : it is 
much divaricated and branched. The cauline leaves 
Hand alternately upon it, in £hape like the radical, 
of 
