SOLANACE 75 
A. Belladonna, L., Deadly Nightshade ; a small shrub, 
stem 2-3 ft. flowers greenish-purple, I in. wide, berry 
black, very poisonous ; thickets, occasional. 
4. HYOSCYAMUS, L. 
Flowers axillary or in scorpioid cymes; corolla bell- 
shaped; stamens distinct; fruit a 2-celled capsule, split- 
ting horizontally (pyxis), enclosed in the persistent calyx. 
Ff. niger, L., Henbane; foetid and poisonous; flowers 
in a unilateral cyme, dull yellow veined with purple, 
stem-leaves amplexicaul, lobed or toothed; waste places 
in the South. 
52 DATURA, EL. 
Flowers large, funnel-shaped; seed-vessel a 4-valved 
capsule, bursting vertically, very spiny. 
D. Stramonium, L., Thorn-Apple; flowers very large, 
usually white ; waste places in the South. 
Order LX.—GESNERACE:. 
Flowers usually irregular; calyx 5-toothed; stamens 
usually 4, epipetalous; ovary superior, usually 1-celled, 
with parietal placentation and numerous ovules. A 
rather large order, chiefly tropical and American ; repre- 
sented in Europe by only a single species. 
I. RAMONDIA, Rich. 
Corolla regular; stamens 5; capsule 2-celled. 
R. pyrenaica, Rich. (Pl. 89); flowers large, violet, 
solitary, or 2-3 on leafless scapes 24-6 in. high, nod- 
