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Show The BRITISH HERBAL. Th BRITIS . Love- orem Gisk- 2N US xX, Solanum ihpinn NIGHTSHADE. SOL AWNU ‘a ingle petal, deeply HE. flower is formed of f a fingle piece, and in the fame manner di d berry. The feeds are numerous, and are containe Linnzus places this among the pentandria ftyle'from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. pPOevdcs TON in two cells. ia; the threads in the flowerbeingfive, and the =I. 1. Woody Nightfhade. Solanum lignofum. divided into five fegments. The cup is madeof edinto five fegments. Thefruit is a roundih AL; tif The root is compofed of numerous, thick fibres, Theftalks are woody, but weak: they are covered with a brown bark toward the bottom; but it is paler in the tenderer parts. The leaves are placed on long footftalks ; and they are broad, oblong, andpointed. Thole to ward the lower part of the plant are: undivided5 but thofe toward the top have one or two nicks making a kind ofears nearthe bafe. The flowers are placed in clufters upon flender footftalks: they are fmall, and of a dark purple, with yellow heads of the threads in the middle. The berries are large, oblong, and, whenripe, of a very fine red. It is commonin damp grounds, and flowers in July C. Bauhinecalls it Sola mara. Others, Sola ua dulca . Sea Woody Nightthade. Dulcamara The root is compofed of a multitude of large fibres. The ftalks are numerous, woody, and covered with a grey bark; and the young twigs are of a deep green. The leaves are oblong, andirregularly dented with a few deep notches: |they are ofa bluith green, The flowers are few and large: they ftand in fpreading tufts, and are of a paler blue thanin the commonkind,. but of the fame form. The berries are oblong, and, whenripe, black. Wehave it about the fea-coafts in the north, It flowers in July. Raycalls it Solanum m, feu dulcamara marina. The woody nightfoade, though of the folanum kind, has no dangewus qualities. It Operates gently by ftool, and opens obftructions of the ifcera, The woodypart of the ftem has moft virtue. A decoction of dice. in the jaun- u magn The root is compofed of manythick fibre Theftall is thick, flefhy, ant of a pale green, but of a weak fubftance; fo that’ it does not ftand perfectly upright. The leaves are very large, and of a pale green: they are of the pinnated form; each compofed of three orfourpairs of pinnz, with an odd { ment at the end: thefe feparate parts are deeply andrudely indented, and fomecimes divided again in the pinnated manner. Theflowers are large and yellow: the fruit is very large, of the bignefs of a moderate apple, ribbed on the furface,-and of a fi de Iris fall of a foft pulpy fubftance; amongwhich lie numerous feeds. It isa native of the warmer parts of America, but thrives well in our ¢ sardens. Wer it'principally fort but in manyother parts of Europe theyeat thefruit in foops 3 and fo times raw, with oil, r, and vinegar. EE GRSB sa. 327 w=) ae The flowers ftand fingly, or ae twoor th ree together, on long footftal and they are ree, and either white; or ofa ea eir cups are covered with fharp, but. w 2 purple colour, The’ fruit is very lare its fhape is oval, a Kents : ee nen > OF larger: It Ig white like an egg whentripe; or fometimes { purplifh, varyir ¢ as the flower ? ir is full of a foft, juicy matter within ;'and the is extremely tender and thin, other of the ianecent plants plant: of Ss kind. Its name would make onet link otherwife ; but that has beer ven thro! : rance, Some ray, blunderers in the fcience to0 be the male ma of poifonous; i this do wn the fymptoms of convulfions anddeliriums aS attending the taking itinwardly, The people in the Eat, not fo deeply Jearned in reek, eat andpies have fet the exa ple to other nations, ya commoningredient in foops, in It is innocent ; but there is little nourifhment in it g. Common Wild Nightthade. Oolanuim Vu os The root is compofed of numerous fibres. The ftalk is round, green, thick, and of a firm fubftance: it fpreads out into numerous branches, andis two feet high. The leaves are placed on longfootftalks: they are oblong, broad, fharp- pointed, andofa deep green. The flowers’ are fmall:and white: they ftand in clufters eight or ten together, and have yellow buttonsin the middle. The berries are round, and, when t ripe, black. It is common in cultivated ground, and no where fo muchas in the borders of gardens, It flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Solanum bacciferum ? Q five officina Others, Solanum vulgare ; and,4 fromits growing in gardens, Solanum bortenfe. The leaves of this kind are ufed externally 4s cooling and repellent; but, if not managed with Caution, they’ may be dangerous. The root is co regularpieces, a necting themtogeti The ftalk is round, firm, high. The leaves are lar y to deferibing the fev eral varieticssof thisone. as diftiné& fj butt theyats no way dilferes t, except inothe colou r of the flowerand fruit: no more than a ted beaan from a white*one. Pear-fruited flowers are large, and of a deep purple, im [pinofum | paler on the outfide, and dufkier within, with yellow buttons in the centre hefe ftandin clufThe root is compofed of many thick, ters at the ends of thé branches; and have a finand {prea gular afpeét, being five-cornered, rather than diThe ftalks are numerous, weak, branched, vided as the others. and twofeet and a half high: they are covered The fruit is large, round, and, when. ripe, with a loofe. whitith, woolly mat and are black befet at {mall diftances with fharp prickles, It is a native of America, and flowers in Au- { The ledves are large, and. covered with fame white downy m guft. Theroots are very qui in multiplying. wi th fharp prickles: they poiinted at the ends, ae irregularly indented: C.Bauhine calls it Solanum tuberofum efculentum. Others, Battata. The floweris fmall; but thefruit is verylarge: This is another inftance, that many plants of it is of the bignefs of a pear, and of a gold yelthe folanum kind are not poifonous, foritis truly low : its fhapealfois like that of a pear; but ie and diftinétly one of them. ws to the ftalk at the largeend. It is common in the American iflands, and the Dy dy Vad Sal) OFN idk. 4. Mad Apple. REIGN--SPECIE rifing from the bofoms of the leaves: they. are The root is compofed of numerous fibres. The ftem is firm, woody, and covered with a aries eee brown bark: theS plant :is a yard or’ more iin height, fpre ads into bbranches cular 2 eight, and inch es inir a regular and elegant manner, The leaves are long, flender, and of a beau- tiful green. large and white, with um Barbadenfe fpinofum Solanum pomiferumfrutiu cblongo. 104 Ju The flowers ftand fingly on fhort footftalks yellow buttons in the centre The 'berries ‘are large, round, and of a bright fine red. It is a native of America, and flowers in tumn. C. Bauhine calls it Sol, m, Others, Stryc LOre pyri parvi inverfi The root is compofed of numerous, long, thick, and fpreading fibres. The ftalk is round, upright, firm, of a pale 1 Thorny Nightthade gteen, or of a purplifh colour, and covered with flore caerulea. light, loofe, woolly matter: it is not much branched ; and it is a foot and half high. The leaves are very large: they ‘have fhort footftalks ; and thofe are often redifh, asare alfo This is a very fingular and elegant plant. The root is compofed of numerous, {pre the veins: the leaves themfelves are of a deep Love-Apple green ; but they have the fame kind of whitith, Woolly matter upon them as the ftalks. th nd, firm, upright, branched, theyare of a pale colour, and < fet with fharp, dufkythorns. The |