Ixxii GARDEN BOTANY. 



with lance-oblong and smooth entire leaves, and small white flowers ; cult, in 

 houses for the bright red berries, resembling cherries, ornamental in winter. 



2. Lyeopersicum esculentum, Tomato. A hairy, rank-scented annual ; 

 leaves interruptedly pinnate, their larger leaflets incised or pinnatifid; flowers 

 yellowish ; berry red, by cultivation large, esculent. 



3. Capsicum annuum, Cayenne or Red Pepper. A smooth annuai, 

 with ovate entire leaves, small white flowers with a truncate calyx, and a dry 

 berry (for which the plant is cultivated) either globose or oblong, sometimes 

 very large, red or green, most pungent and acrid. 



4. Physalis Alkekengi, called Strawberry Tomato, is a cultivated 

 perennial Ground Cherky : stem not much branched; leaves deltoid-ovate, 

 tapering into a long petiole ; corolla yellowish ; fruiting calyx turning red. 



5. Datura. Besides the common Stramonidm, Man. p. 341, which has 

 erect fruit, the following more showy ones are cult, for ornament. 



D. Metel. Clammy-pubescent; corolla white, limb 10-toothed, 4' broad, 

 fruit nodding. 



D. meteloides. Pale, almost glabrous ; corolla white or purplish, limb 

 5-toothed, 5' or 6' broad ; fruit nodding. Recently introduced from New 

 Mexico; very handsome. 



D. arborea is a greenhouse shrub or tree, with hanging white flowers 6' 

 or 7' long. 



6. A'tropa Belladonna, Deadly Nightshade, of Europe, a smoothish 

 , perennial, with ovate entire leaves, one-flowered nodding peduncles ; berry 



poisonous. 



7. Petunia nyctaginifiora, the original Petunia of the gardens, with 

 clammy leaves and flowers ; the tube of the white corolla narrow and 3 or 4 

 times longer than the calyx. This is much crossed with 



P. violaeea, now more common, with weaker stems and a violet or pur- 

 ple corolla, its shorter and broader ventrieose tube hardly twice the length of 

 the calyx. 



8. Nierembergia gracilis. A low, slender, pubescent annual, with nar- 

 row spatulate-linear leaves, and white corollas streaked with purple, violet in 

 the throat, the almost thread-shaped tube I' long. 



N. filicaulis is similar, but diffuse and spreading, glabrous; tube of 

 corolla shorter, limb broader, l£' wide, lilac or white, with violet streaks and 

 yellow in the throat. 



9. Nicotiana Tabacum, Common Tobacco. Clammy-pubescent, 4° to 

 6° high; leaves lance-ovate, the lower 1° or 2° long, the upper lanceolate, 

 pointed, sessile, decurrent; flowers paniculate; corolla funnel-form, 2' long, 

 greenish, with the limb rose-colored. Cultivated in fields as far north as hit. 

 42° or 43°. 



10. Lycium VUlgare, Matiumony-Vine. A smooth shrub with long 

 and lithe branches, trained against walls and buildings ; leaves small, oblan- 

 ceolate or spatulate; peduncles slender; corolla greenish and purple, bearded 

 in the throat. 



11. Oestrum noeturnum. A shrub of house-culture, with ovate-oblong 

 smooth leaves, and axillary clusters of yellowish green slender flowers, very 

 sweet-scented at night. 



