So LANUM DULCAMARA. Wo ODY NIGHTSHADE. 
SOLANUM Linnai Gen. PL. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Rail Gen. 1 6 . Herbie Baccifer.®. 
SOLANUM Dulcamara caule inermi frutefcente flexuofo, foliis fuperioribus haflatis, racemis cymofis. 
Lin. Sp. PL 264. 
SOI^ANUM Scandens feu Dulcamara Bauhin. Pin. 176. Amara Dulcis. Gerard, emac. 350. Solanum 
lignofum Parkinfon. 350. Rail Synopfis 265. Hudfon. Flop. Angl. p. 78. Scopoli Pier. Carniol. 
p. 1 61. Haller, hi/l. Plant. Helv. p. 248. 
RADIX perennis. 
CAULIS fruticofus, fcandens, fiftulofus, ramofus, tu- 
berculis parvis fubafper, leniter angulofus, or- 
gyalis et ultra. 
; ROOT perennial. 
'■ STALK woody, climbing, hollow, branched, thinly 
befet with fmall pointed tubercles, (lightly 
angular, and growing to the height of fix feet. 
RAMI alterni, juniores purpurei. 
FOLIA petiolata, mollia, venofa, in caulem fubdecur- 
rentia, inferiora ovato-lanceolata, integerrima ; 
fuperiora trilobo-haftata. 
FLORE Sin Cymas racemofas difpofiti; pedunculi flora- 
les ad bafin bulbofi, aut ex acetabulo quafi pro- 
deuntes. 
CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, parvum, quin- 
quefidum, purpureum, fegmentis obtuliuscu- 
lis, perfidens ; fig. 1 . 
COROLLA monopetala, rotata ; tubus breviflimus ; 
limbus quinquepartitus, laciniis lanceolatis, 
purpureis, reflexis ; faux nigra, nitida, ad 
bafin fingulte lacinias macula; dua, virides, 
fig- 3 — z - 
STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, breviflima, tubo 
corollae inferta, nigro-purpurea. Anther.® 
quinque, flava, erefta, in tubum lubconi- 
cum coalita, apicibus biforaminofis, fig. 4 — 5. 
PISTILLUM. Germen pyriforme ; Stylus fubulatus, 
flaminibus paulo longior ; Stigma (implex, 
obtufum, fig. 6. 
PERICARPIUM. Bacca ovata, coccinea, glabra, bilo- 
cularis, receptaculo utrinque convexo, cui fe- 
mina adne&untur, fig. 8. 
SEMINA plures, lutefeentia, comprefla, fubrenifor- 
mia, pulpo odoris ingrati obtefta, fig. 9. 
p BRANCHES alternate, the younger ones purple, 
-f LEAVES (landing on foot-ftalks, of an oval pointed 
I lhape, foft, veiny, running (lightly down 
^ the ftalk, the lower ones entire, the upper ones 
halbert (haped. 
\ FLOWERS growing in branched Cym®, the proper 
peduncles of the flowers bulbous at their bafe, 
■f or growing out of a kind of focket. 
5 
[ CALYX a Perianthium of one leaf, fmall, and pur- 
\ pie, divided into five fegments, the fegments 
- bluntilh, perfifting ; fig. 1 . 
■ COROLLA monopetalous, wheel-fhaped, the tube 
very (hort, the limb divided into five fegments, 
* the segments lancet-lhaped, purple, and turn- 
ing back ; the mouth black and lhining, at the 
bottom of each fegment are two roundifh green 
■ fpots, fig- 3- 2 - 
: STAMINA, five Filaments very (hort, of a black purple 
colour, and inferted into the tube of the Co- 
\ rolla. Five Anther® yellow, upright, and uni- 
ting into a tube, with two holes at the top of 
each, out of which the pollen is dilcharged, 
\ fig- 4- 5 - 
\ PISTILLUM, the germen pear-lhaped ; the style ta- 
pering, a little longer than the Stamina ; the 
; stigma fimple and obtufe ; fig. 6. 
• PERICARPIUM. an oval, fcarlet, fmooth berry of two 
\ cavities, the receptacle to which the feeds are 
connected, is round, on both fides ; fig. 8. 
? SEEDS feveral, flat, fomewhat kidney-fliaped ; fig. 9. 
} of a yellow i(h colour, inclofed in the pulp, 
f which has a difagreeable fmell. 
THE Wflody Nightfhade has been commended as a medicine for many diflempers by the old Botanifls, in their 
ufually lavilh manner ; but Parkinson fays, he found the juice of it prove a very churlifh purge. Linnaeus 
prefers an infufion of the ftalk of this plant to any of the foreign woods, as a cleanfer of the blood, and 
recommends it in inflammatory fevers, obftrudlions, the itch, and rheumatifm ; and to render the knowledge 
of plants as extenfively ufeful as poffible, he does not think it beneath him to remark, that the Swedifb 
Peafants make hoops of the ftalk of this plant to bind their wooden cans. Ray informs us, that the in- 
habitants of, Wefiphalia , who are fubjed to the feurvy, make ufe of a deco&ion of the whole plant as 
their common drink with fuccefs againft that diftemper. 
Floyer fays, that thirty berries of this plant killed a dog in lefs than three hours, and remained undi- 
gefted in his ftomach ; as thefe berries from their refemblance, may happen by miftake to be eaten for 
currants by children, it may not be improper to remark, that in fuch a cafe, it is advifeable to pour down 
inftantly as much warm water as poflible, to dilute the poifonous juice, and provoke vomiting, till farther 
affiftance can be had. , ...... ... 
Goats and (heep are faid to feed on this plant, but our other cattle, viz. bine, horles, and (wine, re- 
grows plentifully in moift hedges, and blows from July to Augufi . The berries are ripe in September 
and October. It is fometimes found with a white flower. 
