. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SOLANACEAE — NIGHTSHADE FAMILY 715 various products. The currant tomato (L. pimpinellifolmin), a fruit about the size of a currant, is cuUivated as a curiosity. Ground cherries arc much culti- vated. The strawberry tomato {Physalis Alkekengi), a perennial native to southern Europe, has a large fruiting calyx which turns red. The fruit is eaten, but it is not so palatable as the fruit of the Cape gooseberry (P. peruvi- ana), which is
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SOLANACEAE — NIGHTSHADE FAMILY 715 various products. The currant tomato (L. pimpinellifolmin), a fruit about the size of a currant, is cuUivated as a curiosity. Ground cherries arc much culti- vated. The strawberry tomato {Physalis Alkekengi), a perennial native to southern Europe, has a large fruiting calyx which turns red. The fruit is eaten, but it is not so palatable as the fruit of the Cape gooseberry (P. peruvi- ana), which is native to Peru. The fruit of a native species (P. piibcsccns) is also eaten, but this also is inferior to the Cape gooseberry. Belladonna is derived from Atropa Belladonna, a tall glabrous or slightly downy herb, with a perennial rootstock, native to southern Europe and east- ward to Asia Minor. This furnishes the atropin of commerce used for dilating the pupil of the eye. The earliest investigations of the alkaloids of belladonna were made by Bauberlein in 1809, who first determined their presence. Esse was the first to find atropamin C^^H„^^0^, in the roots of the plant, although Schmidt denies the presence of atropin, affirming the presence of hyoscyamin only. Belladonnin, an isomer of the above, is probably also present. The root of Atropa Belladonna sometimes contains from 4/10-1% of the alkaloid and the leaves about half as much. The greatest amount of the alkaloid occurs during the flowering period. Pseudo-hyoscyamin occurs in the roots of Mondragora. The alkaloids mandragorin, C^jH^gNOj, and manacin C2,HggNjOjQ, occur in Bnmfelsia Hopeana. Several other undetermined alkaloids, such as jurubebin, have also been found in the ^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pammel, L. H.
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