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enclosed in the persistent calyx, 2-celled, opening transversely all round near 

 the apex, which falls off like a lid. — Clammy-])ubescent, fetid, narcotic herbs 

 witli lurid flowers in the axils of angled or tuothed leaves. (Name composed 

 of u9, vos, a hog, and Kvafios, a bean ; said to he poisonous to swine.) 



H. NIGER, L. (Black Hexbaxe.) Biennial or annual ; leaves clasping, 

 sinuate-toothed and angled; flowers sessile, in one-sided leafy spikes; corolla 

 dull yellowish, strongly reticulated with purple veins. — Escaped from gardens 

 to roadsides. (Adv. from Eu.) 



7. DATURA, L. Jamestown- Weed, Tiiorx-Apple. 



Calyx prismatic, 5-toothed, separating transversely above the base in fruit, 

 ihe upper part falling away. Corolla funnel-form, with a large and spreading 

 5-10-toothed plaited border. Stigma 2-lipped. Capsule globular, prickly, 

 4-valved, 2-celled, with 2 thick placentae projected from the axis into the middle 

 of thp cells, and connected with the Avails by an imperfect false partition, so 

 that the capsule is 4-celled except near the top, the placenta3 as if on the mi-ddle 

 of these false partitions. Seeds rather large, flat. — Rank weeds, narcotic- 

 poisonous, witli ovate leaves, and large showy flowers on short peduncles in 

 the forks of the branching stem ; produced all summer and autumn. (Altered 

 from the Arabic name, Tato^ak.) 



D. Stram6nilm, L. (Common Stramonium or Thorn Apple.) Annual, 

 glabrous ; leaves ovate, sinuate-toothed or angled ; stem green ; corolla white 

 (3' long), the border with 5 teeth ; lower prickles of the capsule mostly shorter. 

 — Waste grounds; a well-known ill-scented weed. (Adv. from Asia?) 



D. Tatula, L. (Purple T.) Mostly taller ; stem purple : corolla pale 

 violet-purple ; prickles of the capsule nearly equal. — Waste grounds, in the 

 Atlantic States. (Adv. from trop. Amer.) 



8. NICOTIAN A, Tourn. Tobacco. 



Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, 5-cleft. Corolla funnel-form or salver-form, usu- 

 ally with a long tube ; the plaited border 5-lobed. Stigma capitate. Capsule 

 2-celled, 2 -4-valved from the apex. Seeds minute. — Kank acrid-narcotic 

 herbs, mostly clammy-pubescent, with ample entire leaves, and racemed or 

 panicled flowers. (Named after John Nicot, who was thought to have intro- 

 duced Tobacco (N. Tabacum, L.) into Europe.) 



N. RUSTiCA, L. (Wild Tobacco.) Annual; leaves ovate, petioled; tube 

 of the dull greenish-yellow corolla cylindrical, two thirds longer than the calyx, 

 the lobes rounded. — Old fields, from N. Y. westward and southward ; a relic 

 of cultivation by the Indians. (Of unknown nativity.) 



Order 7b. SCROPHULARIACEiE. (Figwort Family.) 



Chiefly herbs {rarely trees), with didynamons stamens (or perfect stamens 

 often only 2, rarely 5) inserted on the tube of the 2-Hpped or more or less 

 irregular corolla, the lobes of which are imbricated in the bud : fruit a 2- 

 celled and usually many-seeded capsule, with the placentce in the axis ; seeds 

 anatropous, or amphitropous, ivith a small embryo in copious albumen. — Style 

 singfle; sti2i;ma entire or 2-lobed. Leaves and inflorescence various; but 

 the flowers not terminal in any genuine representatives of the order. — 

 A large order of bitterish plants, some of them narcotic-poisonous. 



I. ANTIETIHIXIDE^E. Upper lip or lobes of tlie corolla covering the lower 

 in the bud (with occasional exceptions in Miinulus, etc ) Capsule usually 

 septicidal. 



