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The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape.
Plants of the genus Amaryllis are known as belladonna lily, Jersey lily, naked lady, amarillo or, in South Africa, March lily.
In 1753 Carl Linnaeus created the name Amaryllis belladonna, the type species of the genus Amaryllis.
The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.
The hybrids were crossed back onto the original Amaryllis belladonna and with each other to produce naturally seed bearing crosses that come in a very wide range of flower sizes, shapes, stem heights and intensities of pink.
Amaryllis belladonna has been crossed in cultivation with Crinum moorei to produce a hybrid called × Amarcrinum, which has named cultivars.
Hybrids said to be between Amaryllis belladonna and Brunsvigia josephinae have been called × Amarygia, Neither hybrid genus name is accepted by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.
Under the care of Dr. William Duncan Silkworth ( an early benefactor of A. A .), Wilson's detox included the deliriant belladonna.
These include aconite ( also called hecateis ), belladonna, dittany, and mandrake.
Solanine is also found in other plants in the family Solanaceae, which includes such plants as the deadly nightshade ( Atropa belladonna ), henbane ( Hyoscyamus niger ) and tobacco ( Nicotiana ) as well as the potato, eggplant, and tomato.
The family includes Datura, Mandragora ( mandrake ), Atropa belladonna ( deadly nightshade ), Lycium barbarum ( wolfberry ), Physalis philadelphica ( tomatillo ), Physalis peruviana ( Cape gooseberry flower ), Capsicum ( chili pepper, bell pepper ), Solanum ( potato, tomato, eggplant ), Nicotiana ( tobacco ), and Petunia.
" Opium, and after 1820, morphine, was mixed with everything imaginable: mercury, hashish, cayenne pepper, ether, chloroform, belladonna, whiskey, wine and brandy.
Many berries, such as the tomato, are edible, but others in the same family, such as the fruits of the deadly nightshade ( Atropa belladonna ) and the fruits of the potato ( Solanum tuberosum ) are poisonous to humans.
Hartley makes great use of symbols ( such as the weather, Atropa belladonna, Zodiac signs, the colour green and the arrival-and midpoint-of the new century ) to highlight the main themes.
* Atropa belladonna.
Atropos lends her name to the poisonous plant Atropa belladonna or Deadly Nightshade and to the alkaloid atropine, an anticholinergic drug which is derived from it.
The antagonism between physostigmine ( the elixir of calabar bean ) and atropine ( tincture of belladonna ) was first reported in 1864 by a physician who successfully treated prisoners who had become delirious after drinking tincture of belladonna.
In 184 B. C., Hannibal's army used belladonna plants to induce disorientation, and the Bishop of Münster in A. D. 1672 attempted to use belladonna-containing grenades in an assault on the city of Groningen.

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The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
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The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
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For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.
The idea of national responsibility thus has become a common feature of the nations of the non-Soviet world.
Almost febrile in intensity, the principle has become worldwide in application -- unfortunately at the very time that nationalist fervors can wreak greatest harm.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

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