EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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TA O FAMILY. NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. SOLANACEAE. 



Herbs or shrubs, foliage rank scented, fruit ranging from very poisonous to edible berries; prom- 

 inent in the tropics, about 1,600 of them. Here are found the potato, tomato, ground cherry, tobacco, 

 patunia, Timson weed, henbane, matrimony \1ne, bittersweet, horse nettle, buffalo bur, apple-of-Peru 



Fig. 181 (160). 



Jimson Weed. Thorn Apple. Datura Stramonium L. A coarse, narcotic, poisonous, annual, 

 30-150 cm, high, stems green; corolla white, funnel form, 7-10 cm. high; capsules ovoid, stiff, prickly, 

 about 5 cm. long. 



In waste places; introduced from Europe. 



Fig. 182 (161). 



Purple Jimson Weed. Purple Thorn Apple. Datura Tatula L. A coarse, narcotic, poisonous, 

 annual. 30-150 cm. high, stem purple; corolla pale violet-purple, funnel-form, 7-10 cm. hign; capsules 

 ovoid, stiff, prickly; very nearly like D. stramonium excepting, the stems are purple. (The differ- 

 ences being mainly those of color, the same illustration is made to serve for both). 



Naturalized from Furope, waste places. 



