An alkaloid obtained from common henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and also from the thorn apple (Datura stramonium).
The leaves of the coca, also of the thorn apple, are smoked or chewed by the South American Indian.
With these words he went upward among the tree-tops; and the thorn apple pricked him.
From the seeds of the thorn apple the Tenggerese make a sort of flour which is strongly narcotic in its effect.
If food be mixed with the fruit of the thorn apple (Dathura) it causes intoxication.
This celebrated plant, commonly called the thorn apple, often grows on dunghills, and flowers in the month of July.
