[1651] Etude sur les Convolvulacées purgatives (thèse) Paris, 1864. 31.
[1652] In Hindustani Nil signifies blue, and Kaladana, black seed.
[1653] Fig. in Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, part 22 (1877).
[1654] Pharm. Journ. vii. (1866) 496.
[1655] Pharmacopœia of India, 1868, 156.
[1656] Solanum nigrum L. which slightly resembles dulcamara, is a low-growing annual or biennial, with herbaceous stems, and berries usually black.
[1657] Meddygon Myddvai ([see Appendix]) 185. 293. 375.
[1658] Essentials of Materia Medica, 1855. 196.
[1659] Wight, Icones Plant. Indiæ Orient. iv. (1850) tab. 1617; Capsicum minimum Roxb. Flor. Ind. i. (1832) 574. Faire has ascertained that this is the Capsicum frutescens of the Species Plantarum of Linnæus, but not that of the Hortus Cliffortianus of the same botanist, to which latter the name C. frutescens is usually applied.
[1660] The chief distinction between C. annuum and C. longum is that the former has an erect, the latter a pendulous fruit.