SOLANACEA. 
‘ Nightshades. 
No. 56. 
DATURA STRAMONIUM. 
Tuorn-Arprie. Jamestown Weed. 
Geog. Position. America. 
Quality. Fetid, nauseous. 
Power. Narcotic, acrid. 
Use. Asthma, chronic pains, &c. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Classification. ee 
Orpen SOLANACEA. 
Linnean Classification. 
Cuass V. Pentandria. Orver Monogynia. 
Avurtnoritigs. — Lin. Sp. Pl. 255. Willd. Sp. Pl. I. 1008. Woody. Med. Bot. 
124. Pursh. Flor. N. A. I 141. Lind. Flor. Med. 510. Bigelow, Med. Bot. I. 17. 
Raff. Med. Flor. I. 146. Whitlaw, Med. Disc. 32. Lond. Disp. 323. U.S. Disp. 
709. Ee. Disp. U.S. 156. Loud. Encyc. Pl. 134. Ballard and Garrod, Mat. Med. 
346. Thomson, Mat. Med. 808. Pereira, Mat. Med. II. 319. Griff. Med. Bot. 490. 
Carson, Ilust. Med. Bot. II. 20. Gray, Bot. Text-Book, 849. Beach, Fam. Ph. 
655. Henry, Med. Herb. 271. Wood, Class-Book, 446. : 
Genus DATURA. > = 
An alteration of the Arabic name Tatorah. Forskant. Tatula is altered from 
Datula, a name given to the Datura by the Turks and Persians. 
Synonymes. — Pomme €pineuse, Stramoine (Fr.), Der Stechapfel (Germ.), Stra- 
monio (It.), Estramonio (Sp.), Doornappel (Dutch), Estramonia (Pol.), Durman 
(Russ.). 
Tue EssEentian Cuaracrens. 
Catyx. Sepals four—five, more or less united, mostly per- 
sistent. oe | 
Corotua. Regular. Limb four — five-cleft, plaited in esti- 
vation, deciduous. eR a knageiee ee 
Sramens. Four-five (sometimes one abortive), inserted on _ 
the corolla, alternate with its segments. Anthers bursting 
_ longitudinally, rarely by terminal pores, 
Ovary. Free (superior) two-celled, (four-cedled in Datura) — 
