f"*r‘ is very doubtful; lbme will I cepting tbit Hs Lewes arc fomewhat harder and 
luve 1C to be the.Solannm Lethale, but others deny rougher, and the Bernes when they are ripe are of 
It. ynd will have ir ro lit* r'norhpr Plant which i < 1 . •: 
it, and will have it to be another Plant, of which 
we lhall Ipeak more iii the next Chapter. 
The Descriptions . 
. iV. The fir$, or C?uf Common or Garden 
Night-fliade. Its Root is white and a little Woody 
(after it has perfected its blowers and bruit ) with 
many fmall fibres adjoining to it and it fends 
np an upright , round , green hollow Stalk , about a 
loot, half a lard, or two Feet high, fprttadmg itfelj 
n n I — a 1 c ' l r c il,c °J 
a yellomjh red color-, the whole Riant growing alio 
a little bigger than the former. In hot Countries 
its Root abides many Tears, biit fcarcely fo with us: 
it Jecms that this Plant is but a degenerate Species 
jiom ue former, by reafon of our Climate, as it 
happens in Sweet Fennel Seed, which being Sown 
with us, in a fhort lime becomes (by tranf planta- 
tion into our Country) changed into our Common 
fennel. . 
\I. The third, or Sleepy Nightfliade. Its Root 
IS thick, long, and hard, and of a brownifh color oii 
1J r °u/,'r h n P witbfoveral thick, round, 
JoJf Woody Stalks, divided into other Branches on 
■tnhirlt r r. • . J 
, > j - - J ji'ft-uutag njcij j-j-t ” — v vtutM, ui-umea into other Branches, ort 
forth into many Branches, on which grow many dark I w hich grow many Jbft , woolly, but green, broad 
green Leaves, fomething broad, and pointed' at the r ound Leaves, very like unto Quince Leaves ■ \wo al- 
ends, feft and full of Juicb, larger than the Leaves ™aysfet at a Joint, one again/} another, of a fomcthine 
:t 'T'Tfi ai Clufiusy^j. The blowers com? forth 
Nigbt-fbade Garden. 
of Bafil, elfe fomething like , and a little unevenly 
waved about the edges. At the Tops of the Stalks 
and Branches , come forth three or four, or more 
white Flowers, made of five fmall pointed Leaves 
apiece , fianding on a Stalk together, one by, or above 
another , with yellow Point els in the middle, com- 
pofed of four or five yellow Threads fiet together, 
which afterwards turn into fo many pendulous Berries 
hanging like thofe of Ivy, which are green at firfi, 
and black afterwards when they are ripe, and are of 
the bignefsof a fmall Pea, full of Juice, and con- 
taining within each Berry fmall whitifh round fiat 
Seed. The whole Plant is of a waterifh infipid 
Tafie, but the Juice within the Berries is fomewhat 
V if cons, like unto a thin Mucilage, and is- of a 
cooling and binding quality . 
V. The fecond, or Common Nigh t-fhade Red 
Berried. This is in all ref pells like the former 
Common Night-fliade, in its Roots, Stalks, Branch- 
es, Leaves, Flowers, and manner of growing , ex- 
r“'/ r G Cl u fius fays. The blowers come fort!) 
at the Joints with the Leaves, a# along the Stalks and 
Branches , 3 or 4 together , roundabout them, which 
are long and hollow , ending in 4 fomewhat long 
and pointed Leaves, of a pale white color-, which 
being paff, green Berries come forth in their places 
fet in woolly Husks, zvbich being ripe are of a 
yeUowifh red color , and larger than thofe of the 
T . Vn ; The or True Sleepy Nightfliade of 
1 beopbraflifs and P liny. Its Root is fomewhat great 
aniWoofa covered with a whitifh Barf not very 
thick, of an ill Smell, and infpidTafle. It formes 
up with or 4, or more thick, round , flraight 
whitifh Stalks, about a Lard or mors high fpreai 
out into fome other Branches , hard to break- fet 
with fomewhat broad Leaves very like unto Qiiince 
Leaves, fianding on fmall foot Stalks, not always 
1 at a Joint but many fianding fmgly at the Joints: 
Jiom the middle of the Stalks upwards, come forth 
Jeveral reddijh Flowers together, confiding of 4 
Leaves apiece-, after Mch follow fmall flripek 
and pointed greemjh Husks, but red when they are 
ripe, very like unto Bladders of Winter Cherries 
but much lefs , with a red Berry within it in 
planner, containing within it jeveral fmall 
Vlit The fifth, or Red Nightfliade, or Red 
Weed of Virginia. Its Root is white, and grows 
very great with us, but penfhes if it is not defend- 
ed from the Frojl m Winter, which ufually rot it : 
but wits A at me places, it grows as big as a Man’s 
Lrg, (and fuch I have feen of it in Carolina, and 
other Southern parts of Florida) and above a Foot 
long, which being cut crofs has like a Bryony Root 
many circles to be feen in the middle. It is a large 
riant, and takes its Name of Solanum from the 
likenefs of its Leaves. It rifes up with a great 
thick, round, reddijh Stalk, of the thick/tefs el ones 
Thumb at leaf} ‘ and four or Jive Feet high, or more- 
jet with many very large, frefh, green Leaves full 
of l ems (but without any order,) fome greater and 
Jome fmaller, andfometimes many of them turning 
reddijh -, from the Joints where the Leaves /land 
from the middle of the Stalk upwards, come forth 
many fmall foot Stalks with Flowers, which are very 
Jmall, confiding of four Leaves apiece , of a pale 
red, or blufh color, divers (landing together as it 
were in a fmall long duller, which afterwards 
bang forth fmall b/ackijh round Seed, 4 ufually 
fet in one Husk-, which fcldom come to ripe nets 
with us in England. 
n 7^* f lxt ! : •> or Great Inchanters Night- 
lnade. Its Root is fmall, very white, and full of 
Joints and Branches, by which it /hoots forth 
ar.a creeps every zo./y under Ground, quickly taking 
up a great compafs , It rifes up with one or more 
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