. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. 174, III.—Coca. A, petal. B, stamens. C, pistil. Z), fruit. E, seed,entire. F, same, cut vertically. (Baillon.). 1k:. 175.—Belladonna {Atropa BcUatlonna, Nightshade Family, Solanac((F).A. flowering branch. B, flower. C, same, cut vertically. Z), , stigma. F, fruit. G, seed. (v. Wettstein.)—Perennial herb grow-ing about 1 m. tall, very poisonous in every part; leaves dull green;flowers dull purjile; fruit eherry-like, from green becoming red anddark purple. Native home, Europe and India. 188 MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS from th
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. 174, III.—Coca. A, petal. B, stamens. C, pistil. Z), fruit. E, seed,entire. F, same, cut vertically. (Baillon.). 1k:. 175.—Belladonna {Atropa BcUatlonna, Nightshade Family, Solanac((F).A. flowering branch. B, flower. C, same, cut vertically. Z), , stigma. F, fruit. G, seed. (v. Wettstein.)—Perennial herb grow-ing about 1 m. tall, very poisonous in every part; leaves dull green;flowers dull purjile; fruit eherry-like, from green becoming red anddark purple. Native home, Europe and India. 188 MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS from the bark of the Cahsaya-troe (Fig. 17G) and rolateilspecies. Its great and ^^^dely recognized value in the treat-ment of malaria is explained by the fact that in quantitiesnot seriously injurious to a human l)eing the alkaloid actsas a deadly poison upon minute parasites which occur in
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