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106. Solanaceae.—Nightshade Family.

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Botanical name: 
Solanaceae

Herbs or, rarely, shrubs, with rank-scented, often poisonous, foliage, and colorless juice. Leaves alternate. Stamens five, equal, inserted on the corolla. Fruit a capsule or berry. This order owes its poisonous qualities to the presence of alkaloids such as atropine.


A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E. Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.

  • 503, 504. Belladonna.—Deadly Nightshade.
  • 505. Manaca.
  • 506. Scopola.—Scopola, U.S.P. VIII.
  • 507, 508. Stramonium.—Thornapple. Jimson Weed.
  • 509. Hyoscyamus.—Henbane
  • 511. Tabacum.—Tobacco.
  • 512. Duboisia.—Duboisia.
  • 513. Pichi.
  • 514. Dulcamara N.F.—Bittersweet. Woody Nightshade.
  • 515. Solanum N.F.—Horse Nettle.
  • 516. Capsicum. Cayenne Pepper. Red Pepper.
  • 517. Lycopersicum esculentum.—Tomato.

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