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nicknames Thorn-apple, from its prickly seed- 

 pods, Stinkweed and Jamestown Lily. It is also 

 the "White Man's Plant" of the Indians. 



Near at hand Jimson Weed is an unlovely herb 

 four or five feet high, with coarse leaves and heavy - 

 scented white, five -ridged flowers of the tubular 

 form of the Morning -Glory. At a distance it be- 

 comes one of the boldest of landscape plants, its 

 great white blossoms standing out with startling 

 effect from amid the dirt and confusion of its sur- 

 roundings. Children sometimes eat the seeds or 

 suck the sickishly sweet nectar, and cattle are 

 injured by the leaves, which oftentimes find 

 their way into fodder and hay. 



Bittersweet, Wood, or Climb- 

 ing Nightshade are the names 

 given to a woody climber, also 

 belonging to the Potato 

 tribe. This vine, seldom 

 growing more than eight or 

 ten feet in length, is commonly 

 seen from Massachusetts west- 

 ward to Ohio, among the tan- 

 gled shrubbery that follows 

 brooks and ditches, though in 

 the Lonetown region I have 



