cla#s pentandria. <o 



besides the D. stramonium, natives of South America, 

 and India. 



The Tobacco (Nicotiana) belongs equally to this 

 tribe, and bears a tubular 5-cleft calyx ; a funnel-form 

 corolla, with a plaited, 5-cleft border ; the stamina 

 inclined ; the stigma capitate ; the capsule 2-celled, 

 and 2 to 4-valved. Nearly related to this almost ex- 

 clusively South American genus of narcotics, is the 



Henbane (Hyoscyamas) of Europe, differing princi- 

 pally in the irregularity of its 5-lobed, funnel formed 

 corolla, and the singular opening of its 2-celled cap- 

 sule, which is by a transverse valve or lid, like that of 

 a box. The whole plant in the common species, H. 

 niger, has the heavy smell and viscid pubescence of 

 green Tobacco, and is still more powerfully narcotic. 

 The corolla is yellowish, and elegantly spotted with 

 dull purple. 



Another interesting and common tribe of Pentandria 

 is the Caprifolia, from Caprifolium, its type, our 

 commonly cultivated coral Honeysuckle, which is, 

 however, perfectly wild and indigenous from Cape 

 Henlopen, in Delaware, to an interminable distance 

 south, generally trailing amidst bushes, and almost ever- 

 green in the Carolinas. In this genus, scarcely dis- 

 tinct from Lonicera, or the true Honeysuckle, the 

 calyx, which crowns the germ of the berry, is very 

 small and 5-toothed ; the tube of the corolla long, 

 the border 5-cleft and equal, but in the true Lonice- 

 ra unequal, or in 2 lips ; the stamina are exserted ; 

 the stigma round, the berries distinct from each other, 

 3-celled, and many-seeded, but in 



Xylosteum the flowers grow by pairs on the summit 

 of the same peduncle ; the corolla, as in the Honey- 

 suckle, to which this genus was formerly joined, pre- 

 sents often a deviation from regularity in the outline ; 

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