72 (71) Large coarse plants with thick spongy- 

 stems; leaves large ovate to deltoid, 

 sinuate-toothed or angled; flowers 

 white, large and funnel-shaped; fruit 

 a prickly capsule; an ill-scented and 

 poisonous weed (but not to the 

 touch) ; upper beaches and on piles of 



dead trash Datura stramonium, 



Jimson Weed 



Figure 75.— Leaf X Vz 



72 (71) Plants not as coarse, and stems firm; 

 leaves ovate, entire, or sinuate, and 

 acuminate at tips, without auricled or 

 lobed base; flowers in umbels, white; 

 berry black, poisonous in the unripe 

 condition; on beaches and dunes. 



Solarium nigrum. 



Black Nightshade 



Figure 76a.— Leaf XI 



A vinelike plant of the same 

 genus ; leaves entire but au- 

 ricled or lobed at the base; flow- 

 ers in cymes, violet; berry red 



and poisonous S. dulcamara. 



Bittersweet, Nightshade 



Figure 76b.— Leaf XL 



73 (69) Leaves lanceolate, with 7-12 parallel veins; terminal 

 raceme of flowers; berries at first greenish, later 



ruby-red; plants in the hollows of older dunes 



Smilacina stellata, 



False Solomon's Seal 



Figure 77. — Stem and attached leaf XI- 



73 (69) Leaves not parallel veined '^'* 



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