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Datura Metel. Downy Thorn-Apple. 



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C/<//} <2«J Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. 



Cor. infundibuliformis, plicata. Cal. tubulofus, angulatus, 

 deciduus. Cap/. 4-valvis. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



DATURA Metel; pericarpiis fpinofis nutamibus globofis, 



foliis cordatis fubintegris pubefcentibus, Sp. PI. 1. p. 256. 



Willd. Sp. PL 1. p. 1009. Hort. Kezv. ed. alter. 1. p. 387. 



Mart. Mill. Di&. 

 DATURA innoxia. Mill. Dicl. ed. 8. n. 5. Idem Martyn n. 8. 

 STRAMONIUM folio hyofcyami ; flore toto candido; fructu 



propendente, rotundo, fpinis innoxiis ornato. Bocrb. Ind. 



alt. v. 1. p. 262, exclufo fynovymo Hort. Eyjl. 

 STRAMONIA. Dod. Pempt. 460./. 1. Camcr. Herb. 377. d. 



ejufdem E pi torn. 

 STRAMONIUM peregrinum. Cer. Em. 348./. I. 

 SOLANUM pomo fpinofo rotundo, longo flore. Bauh. Pin, 



168. 

 HUMMATU. Hort. Mai 2. p 47. t. 48. ? 

 DUTRA alba. Rum/. Amb. 5. p. 242. /. 87./' 



This plant, when cultivated in the ftove, hardly acquires a 

 height exceeding four feet. Stems purplifh, downy, irregularly 

 branched. Leaves cordate, moftly quite entire, but, about the 

 flowers more efpecially, irregularly angular, villous on both 

 fides; footltalks long. The calyx is long, fomewhat inflated, 

 but rounded and not angular ; at firft dually two-lipped, but 

 afterwards fpontaneoufly divides or is eafily feparable into 

 five lance-fhaped teeth. ' Corolla white, generally finglc, large, 

 and fweet lcented. After flowering, the peduncle, which was 

 before eretl, bends downwards and the nodding, globular 



fruit 



