VMs: f03v Scopolia

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

After a long and arduous search I believe that Scopolia is the proper match for the VMS botanical drawing in f03v (probably Scopolia carniolica). While the scribe's variations through artistic license have distorted the plant's true form as it appears in nature, there is sufficient cause in both appearance and description to render this match accurate. The highly poisonous characteristics of Scopolia clearly afford it a position of prominence among the other toxic entries in this herbal collection.  

 

Photo:

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/mavica/all/1000/00869.jpg

http://www.europa-nursery.co.uk/images/Roscoea/Scopolia_Zwanenberg.jpg

http://www.herba.msu.ru/images/Solanaceae_Juss./Scopolia_Jacq./carniolica_Jacq./3.jpg

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/mavica/all/1000/00868.jpg

http://www.awl.ch/heilpflanzen/scopolia_carniolica/index.htm

http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-33838/bilder/Scopolia2.jpg

http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-33838/bilder/Scopolia4.jpg

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/mavica/all/1000/00870.jpg

http://www.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/mavica/part1/00267.html

http://www.plantaphile.com/src/i473.html

http://www.herba.msu.ru/images/Solanaceae_Juss./Scopolia_Jacq./carniolica_Jacq./2.jpg

http://www-bgard.sci.kun.nl/images/43093063.jpg

 

Description:

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/s/scopol33.html

http://www.chatlink.com/~herbseed/Scopalia.htm

http://shanmonster.lilsproutz.com/witch/plants/scopolia.html

http://www.alchemy-works.com/scopolia.html

http://www.raintosun.com/phyto/scopola.htm

http://gaechuk.gsnu.ac.kr/~mschoi/intro.htm

http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Scopolia+carniolica&CAN=COMIND

http://www.thepassionflower.com/Crippen%20&%20Henbane.htm

 

Hladnik's Scopolia:

http://www.ijs.si/expo98/eng/zakladi/endemicne-rastline/07.html

 

Scopolia anomala: (Airy Shaw)

http://www-bgard.sci.kun.nl/images/42794107.jpg

http://www-bgard.sci.kun.nl/images/42894109.jpg

 

Scopolia lurida: (Dunal)

http://www-bgard.sci.kun.nl/images/42995388.jpg

 

Scopolia tangutica: (Maxim) 

http://www-bgard.sci.kun.nl/images/43093063.jpg

 

Illustration:

http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/allgemei/koehler/koeh-263.jpg

http://www.meemelink.com/pages/11932.Eykman.htm

http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/library/kohler/1758_052.jpg

 

Chemistry: (Scopolamine)

http://www.steve.gb.com/science/gmdrugs.html

 

Medicinal Applications:

http://plants.gardenbed.com/63/6235_med.asp

http://www.humboldt.edu/~morgan/scio_s01.htm

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~asneden/tropine%20synthesis.pdf

 

Spasms:

http://www.healthtouch.com/bin/medizine/mz_display.asp?urn=urn:content:mec:althealth:102530

http://www.womenofhope.net/Wellness/herbaltreatment.htm

 

Leaves:

http://bot-garden.uibk.ac.at/garten/eheilgw.html

 

Criminal Activity:

http://earthops.net/klaatu/scopalamine2.html

 

Dried:

http://image.nybg.org/herbim/2870/v-287-00138930big.jpg

http://image.nybg.org/herbim/2870/v-287-00138931big.jpg

 

Species:

Scopolia carniolica

Scopolia japonica 

Scopolia lurida   (lucida?)

Scopolia tangutica

Scopolia sinensis
Scopolia physaloides

Scopolia Hardnackiana

Scopolia spinicosta

Scopolia parviflora

Scopolia atropoides

 

 

Regards,

Dana Scott