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Samolus, Gen. Plant. 205. 
Samolus, Hort. Cliff. 51. FI. Suec. 1 65. Sp. Plant. 
I 7 I * . 
Anagallis aquatica folio non crenato, C. B. pin. 
25-2. Round leaved IVater Pimpernel. 
In marfhes flowering in June. This is very 
fcarce in thefe parts : i have feen it in the outwoods, 
and in Buddon Wood, near Loughborough j alfo 
upon feveral bogs near Charley For eft. 
Atropa Gen. Plant. N°. 222. 
Atropa caule herbaceo foliis ovatis integris. Sp. Plant. 
p. 18 1. Bella Donna Cluf. Raii Syn. 264. 
Dwalty or Deadly Kightjhade. 
It flowers in May. About Grace Dieu Abbey 
in this county, but lparingly. About North Luf- 
fenham in Rutland. 
The intoxicating and poifonous quality of this 
herb is well known, and too many dreadful instances 
of its effects are to be found in various authors. 
See Matthiolus Comment, in Diolcorid. p. 756. 
Edit. 1 598 . Gerard em. p. 341. Bodacus a fta- 
pel in Theophraft. p. 58 6. Wepfer Hift. Cicut. 
aquat. cap. 1 7. Boerhaave Hift. Plant. Lugd. 
Bat. p. y 10. The memorable ftory of the intoxi- 
cation of the Danes by the Scots, as it is related 
by Buchanan Rer. Scot. lib. 7. is quoted by al- 
moftall fucceeding writers, when mentioning this 
plant. Later inftances. of its bad effedfs may be 
l'een in the Gentleman’s Magazine for Auguft and 
September 1747 > alfo in Magazine for Sep- 
tember 1748. See alio the cafe of two children 
and 
