Volume 1

Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias : Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain / By John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill.

  • Stephenson, John, 1790-1864.
Date:
MDCCCXXXIV-MDCCCXXXVI [1834-1836]
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Credit: Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias : Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain / By John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I ATROPA BELLADONNA. Deadly Nightshade. Class V. Pentandria.— Order I. Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Lurid.e, Lin. Solane.e, Juss. . Sol anaoe.e, De Cand. Solanace.e, Solane.*:, Burn. Gen. Char. Corolla bell-shaped. Stamens distant, incurved. Berry globular, 2-celled. Seeds many, reniform. Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous. Leaves ovate, entire. Syn.—Belladonna, Raii. Syn. 265 ; Mill. Ic. t. 62. Solanum maniacum, solanum furiosum, Olim. Solanum letbale, Ger. Em. 340 ; Park. 346 ; Clus. Hist. p. 86. Solanum Melanoceros, Bauh. Pin. 166. Solanum somniferum, Buch. Hist. Scutica. 1. vii. c. vi. Belladonna, tricbotoma, Scop. Cam. t.p. 160; Moench. Meth. 179. Atropa lethalis, Salisb. Prodr. 132. Atropa Belladonna, Lin. Sp. PI. 260 ; Willd v. 1. 1017; FI. Brit.255 ; Eng. Bot. v. 9. t. 592 ; Curt. Load. fuse. 5. 1.16 ; Wood. Med. Bot. t. 1 ; Hook. Scot. 78 ; Stake's Bot. Mat. Med. 1. 394. Provinciaely.—Dwale, Deadly Dwale, Black-cherry Nightshade. Foreign.—Belladone vulguire, Fr. ; Belladonna, ltal.; Bella-Donna, bella-dama, Sp.; die gemeine Woljskirsche, Tollkraut, Ger.; Belladonna Skionheden, Dan.; Besiedraagend Doodkruul, Dut.; Beschenaja wischnja Russ. Dwale, or Deadly Nightshade, termed in the Pharmacopoeias, Belladonna, is a native of the south of Europe, Austria, and England; and has long been cultivated in our gardens. It is a perennial plant, flowering in June and July; and ripening its berries in September. It grows in many parts of Britain, on a calcareous soil; but is scarce. It is generally found in shady lanes, and hedges; in the neighbourhood of villages, and ancient ruins. Belladonna is rarely met with in the neighbour- hood of London; but we learn on the authority of Dr. Milne and others, that it grows in the greatest abundance at Cuxstone, near Rochester, in Kent ; also at Wisbeach, in the isle of Ely; in that part of the south-east of Lincolnshire, which is called it