112 COMMON CANADIAN WILD l'LAN : l>. 



Leaves clasping, sinuate- toothed. A strong-scented and poison- 

 ous herb. 



r>. UATU'RA, L. STIUMONIUM. TIIOKN--AM>L> . 



1. D. Stramo'nium, L. (COMMON THOUN-AH'LK.) Stein 

 green. Corolla white, 3 inches long. Leaves ovate, sinuate- 

 toothed. Roadsides. 



2. D. Ta'tula, L. (PURPLE T.) Stem purple. Corolla /,<t/, 

 violet-purple. 



6. NICOTIA'NA, L. TOBACCO. 

 N. lUS'tica, L. (Wii.n TOIJACCO.) Old fields and in gardens. 



ORDER LXVI. GENTIANA'G'EJE. (GENTIAN FAMILY, i 



Smooth herbs, distinguished !>>/ havimj a l~cdle<l. <>r<ir>/ ///'" 

 on Ike walls, either in 2 lines or on the whole inner nrf<f,ce.. Leaves 

 mostly opposite, simple, and sessile, but in one Genus alternate 

 and compound. Stamens as many as the lobes of the regular 

 corolla and alternate with them. Stigmas 2. Calyx persistent. 

 Juice colourless and bitter. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. Fi'a'sera. Corolla wheel-shaped, 4-parted ; a fringed glandular spot on 



each lobe. Flowers light greenish-yellow, with small purple-brown spots. 



2. Hale'nia. Corolla 4-lobed, the lobes all spurred at the base. Flowers 



yellowish or purplish, somewhat cymose. 



3. Geiitia'iia". Corolla not spurred, 4-5-lobed, mostly funnel-form or bell- 



shaped, general!}' with teeth or folds in the sinuses of the lobe >. s ? 

 2, persistent. Pod oblong. Seeds innumerable. Flowers showy, . 

 summer and autumn. 



4. Meiiyan'thes. A bog-plant. Corolla short funnel-form, Mobcd. 



ivhife-bearded <jn the upper face. Leaves alternate, coiiijiointd, <;/ 

 leaflets. The flowers in a raceme at the summit of a naked scape, white 

 or tinged with pink. 



5. Liimiiaii'thfimim. An aquatic, with simple round-heart-shaped floating 



loaves on long petioles. Corolla white, wheel-shaped, f>-partcd, 1" 

 at the base only. Flowers in an umbel borne on the petiole. 



1. FRA'SERA, Walt. AMERICAN COLUMBO. 



F. Carolinien'sis, Walt. Tall and showy. Leaves vv iiorled, 

 mostly in fours. Jioot thick. Flowers numerous in a pyramidal 

 panicle. Dry soil. 





