1 H3 DATURA. Ko. 31 . 



No. 31. 



DATURxV STRAMONIUM 



English Name— COMMON THORN APPLE. 

 French Name — Stramotne vulgaire. 

 German Name — Gemeine Stechapfel. 



Officinal Name — Stramonium. 



Vulgar Names— Jamestownweed, Jimson, Stink- 

 weed, Sec. 



Authorities — Linn, and all botanical writers, 

 Schoepf, Stoerck, B. Barton, Marcet, Hufeland, 

 Woodville, Fisher, Cullen, Murray, Chapman, Ar- 

 cher, Thatcher, Coxe, A. Ives, Bigelow, fig. !• & Seq- 



Genus Datura — Calix tuhulnr, angular, deciduous, 

 five toothed, Corolla funnel-shaped, plaited, five 

 toothed: stamina five equal. Pistil one, style fill-. 

 form, stigma bilobe* Capsule four celled, four valvcd? 

 many seeded. 



Species D. Stramonium — Stem dichotomej leaves 

 alterne oval, sinuate-angular, acute, smooth: fiowert 



solitary, capsuls erect, ovate, thorny. 



DESCRIPTION— Root annual, white, crooked. 

 Stem erect, from one to eight feet high, branched 

 by forts or dichotome, cylindrical, often hollow-, 

 smooth or pubescent. Leaves alternate at the forks, pe. 

 tiolate, oval or oval-oblong, base deci!>rrent, end acute, 

 margin almost angular by large unequal acute teeth, 

 ia^ases rounded, and irreguhir. — Flowers axillary 

 9ohury, on short peduncles, erect, cr someUrnes 



