324 SOLANACEAE. 



Icte; corolla white, its tube about 3 mm. long, included in the cam- 

 panulate 4-toothed calyx, its limb rotate, 4-parted, scarcely 4 mm. 

 broad. 



On bluffs near the sea. Redondo; Long Beach; Laguna. First 

 collected by Nuttall at San Diego. 



3. L. parishii Gray. Puberulent, branches slender; leaves 

 spatulate and lanceolate, about 6 mm. long; pedicels 4-6 mm. 

 long; calyx about 3 mm. long, its limb shortly 5-lobed; corolla 

 narrowly funnelform, about 10 mm. long, its lobes 2 mm. long, 

 ovate, obtuse, at length equaled by the stamens. 



Dry mesas in the San Bernardino Valley, Parish; Elsinore, Baker. 



4. DATURA L. Thorn-apple. 



Annual or perennial erect branching narcotic herbs, 

 with alternate petioled entire or sinuate-dentate leaves, 

 and large showy solitary short-peduncled flowers. Calyx 

 elongated-tubular or prismatic, 5-cleft or spathe-like, 

 circumscissile near the base. Corolla funnelform, the 

 limb plaited, vS-lobed, the lobes broad, acuminate. Sta- 

 mens inserted at or below the middle of the corolla; fila- 

 ments filiform, elongated. Ovary 2-celled or falsely 

 4-celled; style filiform; stigma slightly 2-lobed. Cap- 

 sule 4-valved from the top or bursting irregularly, ovoid 

 or globose, prickly. 



1. D. stramonium L. (Stramonium or Jamestown-weed.) 

 Annual, green, glabrous, 3-10 dm. high; leaves sinuately and lacini- 

 ately angled and toothed; calyx prismatic; corolla white, about 

 8 cm. long; capsule erect, thickly armed with short stout prickles. 



Introduced at Playa del Rey, Davidson. 



2. D. metelioides DC. Prunose-glaucescent, erect, branching, 

 6-10 dm. high from a perennial root; leaves unequally ovate, more 

 or less coarsely repandodentate or nearly entire; calyx cylindric, 

 about 8 cm. long; corolla white or tinged with violet, 15-20 cm. 

 long, the Hmb about 10 cm. broad, with 5 slender subulate teeth; 

 capsule drooping in fruit, 5 cm. in diameter, densely prickly. 



Frequent in sandy soil throughout our range. July- September. 



5. NICOTIANA L. Tobacco. 



Annual or perennial viscid-pubescent or rarely gla- 

 brous narcotic herbs, shrubs or small trees, with alternate 

 entire or slightly undulate leaves, and medium-sized 

 often yellowish or greenish flowers, in terminal often 

 bracted racemes or panicles. Calyx tubular-campanu- 

 late or ovoid, 5-cleft. Corolla funnelform, salver-shaped 

 or nearly tubular, the tube usually elongated, the limb 



