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Show 346 eo Tripz ig Theatrum Botanicum. Cnar.6, BeSolanum vulgare, MATL Common Nightthade. GawdSat 3. Solanam Sominifermmne Sleepy Nighttha de, The Theater ofPlantes. Cuar.6, the leaves, all along the ftalkes and branches; three or foure together round about them, which are long and hollow, ending in foure fomewhat long and pointed leaves, ofa pale white colour, which being palt; thererife upin their places{mall yellowifh red berries, yetbigger then thofe ofthe former, fet in woolly huskes'; the roote is thicke long and hard, and of a brownifh colour on the outfide, $ 4. Solanumfomniferum antiquorumverum, The true fleepy Nightfhadeofthe ancient writers. This Nightfhaderifeth up with three or foure or more thicke roundftrai ight whitith ftalkes abouta yard high or tore, parted into forme other branches, hard to 8, Solanum magna Virginianum rubrum, breake, fet with fomewhat broad leaves very like The great Virginia Red Nightthade, unto Quince leaves with fmall footeftalkes under them not alwayestwoata joynt, but many ftanding fingly atthe joints with the leaves; from the thiddle of the ftalkes upwards, come forth diverfe reddifh flowers together,confilting offouire leaves apeece after which follow, {mall {triped and pointed greenifh huskes; but red when they are ripe; Ven m verylike unto the bladders of the Winter Cherries, but much lefle, with a red berry within itsin like manner; the roote is fomewhat great and wooddy, covered with a whitifh barke, not very thicke, of a foule fent and infipide tafte. Becaufe PSO that kinde of Solanum, which AZatthiolws firlt, and Clufivs after him, fet forth for the true Sonmifevum of the ancients, doth, not beare bladder like huskes orfruite,as Theophraftus faith, lib. 9,¢. 12. ithath,it cannot bethe right, but this onely which’ hathfuch, 5- Solanum Somniferum alterum, Sleepie Nightfhade ofanotherfort. The otherfleepy Nightfhade, hath an upright crefted or cornered {talke,with many leaves thereon, being longer and narrower than thelaft, and more inclining downeward tothe ground, full of veines running long wife and traverfe therein : at the joynts of the ftalke, from the middle part upward, come forth fevetall pendulous flowers, hanging by very longftalkes, being long and hollowlike unto a Bell-flower,of a purplifh colour, §- SolennmSrmniferum alterum, epy Nighrfhade of another lorte each ofthem fet in a large greene huske,dented or cutintofive parts at the edges, butnot very deepe; wherein after the floweris paft, ftandeth around berry; of adeepe blackith purple colour, enclofed : ; therein to the middle, and having like a Crowne, atthe héad ofthe berry; which is full of a winelike juice,and many finall white feeds withinit: the roote is great and {preadeth many great branches with {mallfibres alfo,uns der the ground. ‘ S A 6, Solanum lethale, Dwale or deadly Nightfhade. Deadly Nightfhade groweth fometimesto thé height of a man,but nfuallyit rifeth not up abovethreeor fouré N, BZ/ Sy NY \ Si 4 Sie NY ; S\ ¢ high,having round green ftalkes,fet with divers large leaves, much greater thanany of thofe before, fmooth and of a darke greenecolour,fer upon'very fhortfooteftalkes;among which at the joynts with the leaves come rfeverall long hollowflowers, dented at the brims, ofa faint deadith purple colour, ftanding ina greene huske ; whichafter the flower is fallen.containeth a great round berry,greeneat thefirft but of a fhining blacke (A cs colour, like fhining orpolifhed jet;whenitis ripe, full ofa purplith juice,and many whitifh feedslying therein: the roote is great, growing downe deepe into théground, and {preading great branches therein, and befides creepeth under ground, rifing up in feverall places diftant,. quickely {preading overa ground + the plant hath no good fent,nor talte, bueunfavory and bitter and very pernicions, Of this kinde there is another fort, whofe leavesare lefler, and of a darker greene colour, ftanding upon longcr footeltalkes,and the flowers are notfo great and large as the other, 7. Solanum Indicum umbelliferum birfutum. Hoary Indian Nightthade. Clufius in his fourth booke of Exotickes, declareththat one Dt. Cole, or Coolmans, going with Dutch Mer- chant Ships to Baatam, and otherplaces, in the Ea/t Indies (but dying by the way in comming home ) had ga- thered fome herbes, and put them up into a booke of papers, which being viewed by C/afius, hee found among manyothers, this dryed plant without leaves, which yet hereferreth to the kinds of Nightfhade ; the flender ftalkes, being about five inches long, and hoary white, bearing many fhrivelled berryés, hanging downe out of five pointed huskes or cuppés,of a brownifhred colonr, of thebigneffe of pepper cornes, ftanding in a tuft or umbell, wherein were white feedes, like to thofe of Nightfhade, but not ripe. ; 8. Solanum magnum rubrum Virginianum, Red Nightfhade or Red weed of Virginia. This great V plant,whichfromthe likenes of the leaves we havecalled a Solanum,andreferred thereunto,rifethup witha great thick round reddifhftalke,ofthe thicknes of ones thumbeatthe lealt, & 4.0r.5.foote high or more, {et without order with many very large frefh greene leavesfull of veines,fome greater and {ome finaller mes turning reddifh: fromthe joynts wherethe leaves ftand trom the middle ofthe ftalke upwards, come f erall {malftalkes bearing the fowers which are very {mall confifting of foure leaves a peece ofa pale red or blufhcolour, divers ftanding togetheras it werein a {mall long clutter, whichafter bring forth i blackifia |