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base orbicular, peltate and persistent. Carol funnel-form, 

 with the tube long; the limb 5-angled and plaited. Stamens 

 5. Stigma bilamellate. Capsule smooth or echinate, 2- 

 celled ; cells 2 3-parted. Pentandria. Monogynia. 



D. stramonium Linn. : stem dichotomously branched ; leaves ovate, 

 smooth, angular-dentate, somewhat cordate ; capsule spiny, erect. 

 b. tatula Torr. : stem and flowers purple. D. tatula Linn. 

 HAB. Waste grounds, &c. Throughout the U. S. July Sept. 

 0. Stem 2 6 feet high. Flowers solitary, large, blue and 

 white, on peduncles. Very fetid. Medicinal and poisonous. 

 Big. Mcd. Bot. i. 16. Jamestown Weed, Thorn-apple. 



6. HYOSCYAMUS. Linn. 



Calyx tubular, 5-cleft. Carol funnel- form, irregular, lobes 

 obtuse. Stamens 5. Stigma capitate. Capsule ovate, oper- 

 culate at the extremity. Pentandria. Monogynia. 



H. niger Linn. : hispidly pilose and fetid ; stem erect, very leafy ; 

 leaves sinuate, clasping ; flowers sessile, arranged in terminal re- 

 curved leafy spikes ; corol reticulate. 



HAB. Waste places. N. Y. and Penn. June. or $. Stem 

 12 18 inches high. Flowers large, dull yellow, with purple 

 veins. Introduced. 1 Fetid, poisonous and medicinal. 



Henbane. 



7. VERB A SCUM. Linn. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corol rotate, 5-Iobed, unequal. Stamens 

 5, declined, often hairy. Capsule 2 vnlved, ovate or globose. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



1. V. thapsus Linn. : stem simple, erect, tomentose ; leaves ovate- 

 oblong, decurrent, very woolly on both sides ; flowers in a long dense 

 terminal spike ; stamens unequal, two smooth. 



HAB. Road sides, &c. Throughout the U. S. June, $. 

 Stem 3 6 feet high, angular, winged. Flowers yellow, in along 

 dense cylindrical spike. Introduced. 1 Mullein. 



2. V. llattaria Linn. : stem angled, smooth ; leaves clasping, ob- 

 long, serrate ; flowers in a terminal raceme ; peduncles 1-flowered, 

 solitary. 



HAB. Road sides. N. Y. to Car. June, July. $. Stem 2 

 feet high. Floicers white and yellow. Considered by some as 

 distinct varieties. 



3. V. lychnitis Linn. : leaves oblong-cuneiform, naked above, white- 

 lornentose beneath ; stem angular, panicled ; spikes lax, lateral and 

 terminal. 



HAB. Penn. Pursh. S. to Car. June, July. <. Stem straight 



