Atropa Belladonna. Dwale, or Deadly
N i g h t s h a d e .
ATROPA Lin. Gen. PI. P e'n t a n d r ia M o n q g y n iA.
Cor. campanulata. Stam. diftantia. Bacca globofa, 2-locularis.
Raii Syn. Gen. 16. Herbes Baccijerce.
ATROPA Belladonna caule herbaceo, foliis ovatis integris. Lin. Syä.Vegetab. ed. 14. è. 221
Sp. Plant, p. 260. . ’ ■
BELLADONNA caule herbaceo,’ brachiato, foliis ov'ato lanceölatis, integerrimis. Haller, hid.
n' 579’ * 1 * " t • -
BELLADONNA trichotoma. ■ Scopoli Fl. Carn. n. 255.
SOLANUM melanoaerafus. Bauh. pin. 166.
SOLANUM lethale. Ger. emac. 340. Parkinf. 346. Raii Syn. p. 265. Deadly Nightfhade,
Dwale. Huafon Fl. Angl. p. 93. Ligftjoot Fl. Scot. p. 144. Jacqum Fl. Auftr.> t. 309.
■ IX perennis, crafla, albida, ramolii, repens. ♦ RO OT perennial, thick, whitifli, branched, and
’ q ■ creeping.
ILES plures, bafi digitum crafft, tripedales et 0 S T A LK S feveral, at bottom the thicknefs o f one's
ultra, ereai, herbacei, teretes, ramofi, in | . . finger, three fe.etor more high, upright herapricis
fordide purpurei, pubefeentes. | baceous, round, branched, in expofed fitua-
. . t tions of a dingy purple colour, downy.
|IA petto ata, ovata, acuta, lntegerrima, utrin- 0 LEAVES Handing on footftalks, ovate, pointed
que laevia,. venofa, ad latera caulis ramo- y perfeftly entire, fmooth on both fides, veiny,
rumque gemma et magnitudine inaequalia, X growing in pairs (but unequal in fize) from
inter quae pedunculus umflorus et faepius § ' the fides of the ftalks, from betwixt them
folitanus egreditur. ? rifes the flower-ftalk fupporting one flower,
B1NCULI teretes, vifeidi, ad flores paululu
I frafTati
RES
f and ufually fingle.
1- 0 F LOWER-STALKS round, vifeid, thickened fome-
v v. what next the flowers.
J lno“ or}>. fordide purpurei, fub-^ FLOWERS drooping, fcentlefs, o f a dingy purple
vuetdi, externe nitidi, yenofi. | colour, fomewhat vifeid, externally gloffy
n a and veiny.
i U : “erianthium monopfayllum, quinque- $ C A L Y X : a Perianthium of one leaf, deeply di-
“ parutum, angulatum, laciniis ovato-acumi- $ vided into five fegments,angular, the fegnatis,
maequahbus, vifcofis, jig. 1. <> ments ovato-acuminate, unequal, and vif-
\nr.r r . _ ■ cous, Jig. -i.
jrnLA rnonopetala, campanulata; Tubus bre- J CO R O L LA monopetalous, bell-fhaped; Tube very
viUuqus albus, fubpentagonus; Limbus f ftiort, white, {lightly five-cornered; Limb
ventricolus, ovatus, ore quinquefido, patulo, $ • bellying out, ovate, mouth fpreading, divided
■ A b J f“# f“b*qualibus,^. 2. g into five equal fegments, fig. 2.
■ wu.na: F i l a m e n t a quinque, albida, quorum | STAM INA : five F i l a m e n t s , wliit.lh, two o f which
auo p&ulo breviora, inferne paulo craffiora, g . are a little fhorter than the reft, fomewhat
pnoia, apice incUrva, longitud-ine tu b i; ^ thickeft towards the bafe, and hairy, bent
NTiiERiE magnae, didymae, lutefeentes, re- g down at top, the length o f the tube ; A n-
0 x> M- 3* ' th e r as large, double, yellowifh, and re-
§TlT t tth/t r> r <> mote, fig. q.
L UM: G e r m e n femiovatum, utrinque ful- f P I S T I L L U M : G e r m e n femiovate, with
catum, ad bafin glandula lutefeente eindlun
Stylus filiformis, ftaminibus longior, in- ^
fhnatus; Stigma capitatum, affurgens, |
traniverfo - oblongum, bilabiatum, viride, l
J f & Ä
fCARPlUM: B a
L ^pofis-duleis,
I’1 ‘ P*u”ma, fufea, irregularia^gr. y.
J m*na ^u^cefcunt priufquam Bacca nigrefeit.
groove
on each fide, furrounded at bottom with a
yellowilh g land; S t y l e thread-fhaped,
longer than the ftamina, inclined downwards;
S t ig m a forming a little head, tranf-
verfely oblong, two-lip’d, o f a green colour,
M - I
faDom4„i“ ACL-f atFa’ . nit5da» fub rotunda, | SEED-VESSEL: a black, gloffy, roundilh B e
id-poras dulcis, buoeularis, ßg„ 5,- 6.' • Y r - " •i th• two cavities;, fig. 5, 6.
and irregular in fhapei
|e
o f a fweet tafte
a SEEDS numerous, bro\
| Jig. 7.
a Obf. The feeds turn brown before the Berry becomes
H black.
Been the means^nf ^ ^ d - t0 the nu*nerous alterations perpetually making in the environs of London,
b attribute th'i? 1 ei£tlrPatlnS m„any plants which formerly grew plentifully around us. To this caufe
! rne of »he t ° s 0 Pre*ent plant, which the late Sir W i l l i a m W a t s o n and Mr. S t a n e s b y
within their r ower> gentlomen .eminciit for their knowledge of Britilh plaints, have
ften affured me
Imuch fu r th e r^ w fK f06 * *’ in feV-e/ al ® lH near towh ’ ham lY we are now und<
the .neceflity of
i°Uhe chalk nif10'10 country* ^ we wllfi to fee it grow wild. We have frequently noticed ft in
i k« to have '5nt! a" 1°d in bo,th ' • expofed fituations elfewhere ; in particular, we
l b the fnot wi?r 11 %ro'fTJ}E g reat abundance on, Keep-Hill, near High Wycomb, Buckinghamfliire;
leered “ Yes • WC ®t,*e^ve^ It, there chanced to be a little boy ; I a flee d him, if he knew the plant?
| ? faid he 1" 7 a s m a n ’s c h e r r i e s I then inquired of him, if he had ever eaten any of the
fry lit; but tW3 * * Wll*1/ e,veral other children from an adjoining poor-houfe, and that it made them
I I J J g p l none of them had died.
I0r there arelh deftroyed wherever it is found wild, it would be much more common than
root W)/ ?nts to 'v^leh nature has been fo liberal in the means of increafe: it has a very
P ;iai “lance- ^aa j ---- . CF 1IUP U1C earin, multiplies greatly, and frequently creeps under grour
diftance?ru,n.s ^.eeP *nt.° l^e eartfi>underground
’ , ed to this, its berries are very numerous, and contain a prodigious quantity o f feeds.
Forbidding