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1687 J. Clayton Let. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 160 Several of them [sc. the Soldiers] went to gather a Sallad..and lighting in great Quantities on an Herb called Iames-town-weed, they gathered it; and by eating thereof in plenty, were rendered apish and foolish.

1700 J. Lawson Hist. Carolina (1718) 78 James-Town-Weed..is excellent for curing Burns and asswaging Inflammations.

1812 Cramer's Almanac 1813 (Pittsburgh) 26 James'-town weed..also known by the name of Jimson, and Thorn-Apple.

1832 in T. H. Benton Thirty Years' View (1854) I. 256 An eagle [caught] by a pig under a jimpson weed.

1842 Amer. Pioneer 1 314 She said her principal dressings were made of..the leaves of stramonium, or ‘jimson’.

1872 E. Eggleston End of World xi. 77 Like a..jimson-weed on the sunny side of a board fence!

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Tom Sawyer 18 She..looked out among the tomato vines and jimpson weeds that constituted the garden.

1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxiii. 228 The village jokers came creeping stealthily through the jimpson weeds and sunflowers.

1892 Harper's Mag. Jan. 936/2 The front yard was overrun with cockle~burs and ‘jimsonweed’.

1911 C. Harris Eve's Second Husband xiv. 299 Clumps of sweet jimson and borders of balsam and pinks.

1930 R. Bass in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 382 He cures..headaches with a poultice of jimson-weeds.

1934 Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs 23 Mike was pilin' ties near the ditch by the road Out among the jimpson where the boys ain't mowed.

1943 R. Peattie Great Smokies & Blue Ridge 118 Jimson root for ulcers.

1954 C. J. Hylander Macmillan Wild Flower Bk. 360 Jimsonweed is a stout plant, growing to a height of five feet, with ovate lobed leaves and white or violet, trumpet-shaped flowers up to four inches in length.