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SOLANACEiE. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 
W* l’ustica, L. (Wild Tobacco.) Leaves ovate, petioled; 
tube of the dull greenish-yellow corolla cylindrical, two thirds longer 
than the calyx, the lobes rounded. (|) — Sparingly naturalized near 
dwellings and old fields in New York and westward : introduced by 
the Indians. 
N. Tabacum, L., is the cultivated Tobacco. 
2. DATURA, L. Jamestown-Weed. Thorn-Apple. 
Calyx prismatic, 5-toothed, separating transversely above the 
base in fruit. Corolla funnel-form, with a large and spreading 5- 
toothed plaited border. Stigma 2-lipped. Pod globular, prickly, 
4-valved, 2-celled, with 2 thick placentae projected from the axis 
into the middle of the cells, thence connected with the walls by an 
imperfect false partition, so that the pod is 4-celled except near 
the top, with the placentae seemingly borne on the middle of the 
alternate partitions. Seeds rather large. — Rank weeds, narcotic- 
poisonous, with an unpleasant odor when bruised, bearing ovate 
angular-toothed leaves, and large and showy flowers on short pe¬ 
duncles in the forks of the branching stem. (Altered from the 
Arabic name Tatorah.) 
1. I>. Stramonium, L. (Stramonium.) Leaves ovate, 
smooth ; stem green ; corolla white ; calyx-teeth pointed; pod prick¬ 
ly.— Var. Tatula, has the stem and corolla tinged with purple. ® 
— Waste grounds; a well-known introduced weed, with large flow¬ 
ers (3 ; long). July-Sept. 
3. HVOSCiAHUS, Toum. Henbane. 
Calyx bell-shaped or um-shaped, 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-form, 
oblique, with a 5-lobed more or less unequal plaited border. Sta¬ 
mens declined. Pod covered by the persistent calyx, 2-celled, 
opening transversely all round near the apex which falls off like a 
lid. — Clammy-pubescent rank herbs, with lurid flowers in the 
axils of angled or toothed leaves. (Name composed of vs, vos, a 
hog , and Kva^os, a bean; the plant said by ^Elian to be poisonous 
to swine.) 
1. H. nlger, L. (Black Henbane.) Leaves clasping, sinu¬ 
ate-toothed and angled; flowers sessile, in one-sided at length recurv¬ 
ed leafy spikes ; corolla dull yellowish strongly reticulated with purple 
veins. @ —Introduced, sparingly found by road-sides. July. —A 
fetid narcotic plant. 
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