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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-pubescent, fetid, narcotic herbs, 

 with lurid flowers in the axils of angled or toothed leaves. (Name composed 

 of i/'y, i/6s, a hoy, and Kva.pos, a bean; said to be poisonous to swine.) 



H. NIGER, L. (BLACK HENBANE.) 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. THORN-APPLE. 



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

 the 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 placeutie projected from the axis into the middle 

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

 that the capsule is 4-celled except near the top, the placentae as if on the middle 

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

 poisonous, with 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, latorah.) 



D. STRAM6NIUM, 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. TAT u LA, 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. Rank 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 75. SCROPHTILrARIACE^E. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



Chiefly herbs (rarely trees], with didynamous stamens (or perfect stamens 

 often only 2, rarely 5) inserted on the tube of the 2-lipped 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 placentae, in the axis ; seeds 

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

 single; stisma entire or 2-lobed. Leaves and inflorescence various; but 



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

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



I. ANTIRRHINIDE M. Upper lip or lobes of the corolla covering the lower 

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

 septicidal. 



