Probably some ivy or poison-oak, or nightshade among the briars.
The leaves along the way were falling rapidly from the trees, and the sharp teeth of the frost had bitten the wild grapes and nightshade at the roadside.
The entire plant, including flowers and green fruit, have a somewhat heavy, disagreeable odor, a characteristic common to many members of the nightshade family.
The tomato is an herbaceous plant, belonging to the nightshade family (Solanaceae), the same family to which the potato and tobacco belong.
Mr Nightshade and Mr Mac Laurel joined the trio; and it was secretly resolved, that Miss Philomela should furnish them with a portion of her manuscripts, and that Messieurs Gall & Co.
The nightshade is our most dangerous poisonous plant, and there is little hope for children who have eaten of its berries.
The true Deadly Nightshade or Dwale (Atropa belladonna), of the same order, is a very local plant, occurring principally in waste places in the South of England.
The other species--the Woody Nightshadeor Bittersweet (S.
Physalis Alkekengi) of the Nightshade family, which has, a red berry inclosed in the inflated and persistent calyx.
Defn: A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.
Quito orange, the orangelike fruit of a shrubby species of nightshade (Solanum Quitoense), native in Quito.
West Indian name for a prickly kind of nightshade (Solanum mammosum).
A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food.
Defn: Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceæ, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type.
Defn: An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of theNightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff.
Defn: The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself.
For the rose, as all the world conceives, is the emblem of love; and the nightshade typifies silence.
The Nightshade "But silence is most noble till the end.
Then he rose slowly from his seat, and as he laid his hand on the door-latch, and lifted it to go out, a welcome little puff of outside air darted into the chamber, and stirred the nightshade blossoms in the breast of the old rusty coat.
Deadly Nightshade= To the nightshade family belong plants that are poisonous and plants that are not, but the thrilling name, deadly nightshade, carries with it the certainty of poison.
The antidotes for nightshade poison are emetics, cathartics, and stimulants.
And you remembered my teaching, and saved the child with the nightshade we gathered and distilled that fair day, more than two months ago!
The Deadly Nightshade (Atropa Belladonna) differs widely from all the preceding genera in having a bell-shaped corolla, (see a in fig.
Then he waded through the ranknightshade and stepped out upon the grass of the woods--the green carpet of thick turf, Kentucky bluegrass.
Webster recrossed the woods as he had entered it, waded through the nightshade and climbed the fence under the dark tree.
Take heed you distil not the deadly Nightshade instead of the common, if you do, you may make mad work.
Oil of Nightshade, is made of the berries of Nightshade ripe, and one part boiled in ripe oil, or oil of Roses three parts.
The common Nightshadeis wholly used to cool hot inflammations either inwardly or outwardly, being no ways dangerous to any that use it, as most of the rest of the Nightshades are; yet it must be used moderately.
Have a care you mistake not the deadly Nightshade for this; if you know it not, you may let them both alone, and take no harm, having other medicines sufficient in the book.
I dare say he is throwing snow-balls at himself," said Whistlebinkie.
It's a--a sort of little bureau talkers have to keep their words in.
That's about as absurd a thing as any one can do, and he can always be counted upon to be doing things that haven't much sense to 'em.
Yet the leaves of the nightshade family vary considerably in shape, and it is therefore decisively the texture and peculiar appearance of the leaves, that announce the kinship of the plant.
Solanine is a poisonous nitrogenised glucoside found in all parts of the plants belonging to the nightshade order.
The nightshadeowes its poisonous properties to atropine.
In Mexico the term "locoed" embraces a condition due to the action of Cannabis sativa and various members of the nightshade family.
Next to the dwale in the nightshade family must rank the henbane, a fallen angel among wildflowers; for its beauty is of the sickly and fetid kind, which at once attracts and repels.
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