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of a dufky-green colour on the upper part, and a 
paler green underneath, being a little hairy on both 
fides. The flowers {land on Angle footflalks, in the 
alas of the leaves : they are large, of a campanulated 
figure, and floated, of a dufky-purple colour with- 
in, with a yellow variegated bafe ; the outer fur- 
face of the flower is of a greenifh red. After the 
flower fucceeds a fine beautiful large berry, which is 
black when ripe. For the reft, take in the generical 
character. 
Moft of the old authors give us figures of this 
plant, which, tho’ they convey a general idea of it, 
are yet fcarce any of them exact. This fault in ge- 
neral runs thro’ all, that I have had an opportunity 
of examining ; namely, that the flowers and fruit 
are reprefented by much too large in proportion to 
the leaves. Morifon’s is perhaps one of the beft 
among the old figures : it is, upon the whole, tole- 
rable, but not accurate on account of the before- 
mentioned objection. Petiver’s does by no means 
reprefent the plant juftly, in that the alas of the 
leaves are not properly filled up. The moft accurate 
figure of all, that I have feen, is Mr. Miller’s, in his 
plates adapted to the Gardeners Dictionary, which is 
undoubtedly taken from nature itfelft 
Place c/ Growth. 
The Deadly Nightftiade is found, in many parts of 
Europe, efpecially in England and in Auftria ; and 
yet in our own country it is happily not very plenti- 
ful, inafmuch as our botanical writers ufually reckon- 
it among the more rare plants, and ft ecify particu- 
larly the places where they have obferved if. 
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