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DATURA STRAMONIUM. 



COMMON THORN 



STNO NTMA, Stramonium. Pharm. Edinh, Solanum foetidum, 

 porno fpinofo oblongo. Baub, Pin, p, 168. Stramonium majus 



album. Park, Par ad, p, 360. Stramonium fpinofum. Gerard, 

 Emac, p, 348. Rail Hift, p, 748. Stramonium foliis angulofis, 

 frudiu eredo, muricato calyce pentagonia. HalL Stirp, Helv, ;?, 



586. 



D. ftramonium. Withering, Bot, Arrang, p, in^o 



Flor, 



Danic, p, 436. Sioerck, Lib ell, de Strain, '<^c, Curt,'Flor, Lond. 



Clafs Pentandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin, Gen, Plant, p, 246. 



"EJ, Gen, Cb, Cor, infundib. plicata. 



deciduus. Caps, 4-valvis. 



CaL tubulofus, angulatus, 



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Sp, Cb, D. pericarp, fpinofis eredis ovatis, foliis ovatis glabris. 



owers are 



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TH E root is large, annual, white, divided, and fibrous : the ftalk 

 is thick, ere£t, round, fmooth, fhining, below fimple, above dichoto- 

 mous, and rifes about two feet in height : the leaves are alternate, 

 large, broad towards the bafe, pointed at the extremity, indented, and 

 formed into feveral obtufe angles, fmooth, of a dark green colour, 

 and {landing upon ftrong round fhort footftalks : the 

 folitary, large, white, and placed on fliort ered: peduncles at the jundion 

 of the branches : the calyx is compofed of one leaf, tubular, pentan- 

 gular, and divided at .the brim into five teeth : the corolla is white, 

 monopetalous, funnel-fhaped, plicated, cut at the margin into five 

 teeth, and furniflied with a long cylindrical tube : the five filaments 

 are tapering, about the length of the calyx, adhering to the tube, and 

 fupplied with oblong flat antherse : the germen is oblong, and placed 

 above the infertion of the corolla : the flyle is filiform, equal in length 

 to the filaments, and terminated by a thick blunt ftigma : the capfule 

 is large, oval, llefhy, befet with fpines, divided into the cells, and four 



^'^alves, which contain numerous kidney-lhaped feeds. It grows wild 



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