292 § MONOPETALEH—HYPOCOROLLER. 
"poisonous : it may be considered an acro-narcotie or seda- 
tive poison. ' 
. ORDER LV. 
SOLANEZ. 
Cuaracters.—Herbs or shrubs, with alternate undivided 
(sometimes lobed) leaves, and flowers variously arranged; 
calyx monosepalous, in 5 (rarely 4) divisions, more or less 
deep, persistent ; corolla with a plaited «stivation, rotate, 
funnel-shaped, or campanulate, with the limb 5-cleft, (rarely 
4), regular (except in Verbascum) ; stamens 5, (occasionally 
1 somewhat abortive), inserted in the corolla, and alternate 
with its segments; anthers dehiscing longitudinally, occa- 
sionally by pores at the apex; ovary 2-celled, with 2 many- ; 
seeded placente; style and stigma simple; pericarp a 2~ 3 
celled 2-valved capsule (Datura is 4-celled and 4-valved), or 4 
a berry 2-celled ; or with many cells from enlargements of 
the placenta; embryo curved, in the interior of a fleshy al- 
-bumen ; radicle next the hilum. 
_Nolana has a 5-lobed ovary, each lobe having 1 or 2 1- 
seeded cells. Nicotiana multivalvis has several cells exter- 
___ nal to the 2 central ones of the ovary. : 
- Exampres.—Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), Deadly night- 
shade or Dwale (Atropa Belladonna), Potato (Solanum tu- 
_ berosum), Tobacco (Nicotiana Tabacum). ig 
