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of its leaves, spoil the impression which might be 

 made by the beauty of the blossoms were they not 



FlG. 59. Jimson-weed (Datura stramonium). 



so lowly born. Growing with the jimson-weed we 

 may find its first cousin, the Datura tatula, a 

 smaller plant bearing flowers strongly tinged with 



