PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Datuba. 315 
E. Bot. Aspatria Church-yarcL, Cumberland. Rev. J. Dodd. Common 
about Durnsley and Kinver, Staffordshire. Scotty in Purton. E.) 
A. June—July. 
{V. phceniceum, Purple Mullein, is said to have been found by the Rev. 
Hugh Davies, in an old fence between Beaumaris and the alms-house, 
but we have not seen specimens. E.) 
DATU'RA. BIoss. funnel-shaped, plaited; Cal. tubular, an¬ 
gular, falling off with the blossom: Caps, two-celled, 
four-valved. 
D. stbamo'nium. Seed-vessel spinous, erect, egg-shaped: leaves egg- 
shaped, smooth, (sinuate. E.) 
{E. Bot. 1288, E.)— Stoerck.—Fl. Ban. 436— Woodv. 124— Kniph. 10— 
Clus. Exot. 289 — Ger. Em. 348. 2— Blackw. 313— Col. Phytob. 12. 
A large wide spreading, strong smelling plant, about two feet high. Leaves 
large, deeply indented. Blossom (about three inches long, sweet-scented, 
especially at night, Sm. E.) white, sometimes with a tinge of purple. 
{Seeds kidney-shaped, black. Pericarp the size of a walnut. E.) 
Thorn-apple. (Welsh: Meiwyn. E.) Amongst rubbish and on dung¬ 
hills. Tritton Heath, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. (By the road side 
beyond Brooke, Norfolk, in the way to Bungay. FI. Brit. In meadows 
near Reading. Mr. Fardon, in Bot. Guide. On rubbish at Salthill, near 
Windsor. Mr. Gotobed. At Wisbech. Dr. Skrimshire. Sunderland 
Ballast Hills. Mr. Winch. At Ride, Isle of Wight. Mr. S. Woods. 
About London, and Swansea, common. Mr. Dillwyn. ditto. About Sal¬ 
ford and Alcester. Purton. On a newly-formed bank of earth in the 
Saltisford brick-yard, Warwick. Perry. Produced abundantly on 
breaking up a piece of ground in the demesne of Maes y Perth, Anglesey, 
which had not undergone any agricultural process for at least a century. 
Rev. H. Davies. See Osmunda Regalis, v. 3. E.) A. July.* 
* At night the leaves, particularly the upper ones, rise up and inclose the flowers. An 
ointment prepared from the leaves gives ease in external inflammations and hemorrhoids. 
The Edinburgh College directs an extract to be prepared by evaporating the expressed juice 
of the leaves. This has been given with great advantage in convulsive affections and 
epilepsies. Out of fourteen epileptic patients, eight were entirely cured by it at Stockholm. 
The dose from two to sixteen grains a day. Med. Comm. i. 368. iii. 22. See also Lond. 
Med. Journ. ii. 295. The seeds or leaves given internally bring on delirium, tremors, 
swelling, itching, eruption and inflammation on the skin: these effects were produced by a 
dose of a dram and a half, in a girl of nine years old. See Dr. Fowler’s account. Med. Com. 
vol. 5. p. 164. (As of other narcotics, a full dose induces giddiness, dilatation of the 
pupil of the eye, head-ache, drowsiness, difficulty of swallowing, and often delirium, con¬ 
vulsions, and death. Lempriere’s Lect. p. 228. Dr. Marcet, in a valuable paper, (Med. 
Chirurg. Tr. v. vii.) reports extract of Stramonium , cautiously administered, sensibly to 
reduce pain in chronic diseases. The seeds are most to be depended on for internal use, 
and have been analysed by Mr. Brandes, Vid. Buchner’s Repert. 1821. E.) Cows, goats, 
sheep, and horses refuse it. (Dr. Swediaur states that an antidote to this poison has been 
found in the acetous or citric acid. Tin's plant has lately acquired general attention by its 
alleged efficacy in alleviating and warding off fits of spasmodic asthma. The Monthly 
Magazine appears to have been the principal vehicle of intelligence on this interesting 
subject, and in the vols. for 1809, 1810, and 1811, may be found many authentic 
statements. We shall here only extract the perspicuous directions given in vol. 29» p. 409. 
“ It is the root only, and the lower part of the stem, which seem to possess the anti-asthmatie 
