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SOLANACE^. (nightshade FAMILY). 



Fig. 261. 



linear, with parallel cells, opening by in- 

 trorse slits. Ovary 2-celled or by false 

 septa 4-celled, ovules attached to true or 

 false septa ; style filiform ; stigma bilamel- 

 late. Capsule oblong-globular, prickly, 

 loculicidally and septicidally 4-valved — 

 Annual herbs, with an unpleasant odor, and 

 large, white flowers. 



1. I>. Stramonium, L. © .6tol, 

 minutely ]ja2mlar J green; stem stout. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate, .1 to .15 long, miequally 

 sinuate-dentate. Corolla .08 to .1 long, 

 pentagonal, lobes 5, cuspidate ; capsules 

 .03 to .04 long — May to September — 

 Roadsides and waste places ; common. 



2. D. Metel, L. .6 to 1, densely 

 pubescent, greyish ; stem stout. Leaves . 1 

 to .25 long, ovate, cuneate or cordate at base, 

 entire or obsoletely repand. Corolla .15 long, 

 pubescent outside ; lobes 10, cuspidate ; 

 capsules .03 to .04 long — Summer — Coast ; 

 Safita. 



Flower of D. Stramonium 



8. HYOSCYAMUS, L. Henbane. Benj. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-clef t near apex, growing in fruit, 

 ribbed, enclosing capsule. Corolla funnel-shaped, sometimes laterally 

 split, with oblique, 5-fid limb, and broad, imbricated lobes. Stamens 

 inserted on tube, generally exserted ; anthers oblong, with parallel 

 cells. Style filiform ; stigma capitate ; capsule opening by a lid near 

 apex ; seeds tubercled or pitted — Herbs, with a narcotic odor. 



1. H, muticus, L. 2{ Sehrdn. Semen-el-Fdr. .3 to .6,' green, 

 crisp-pubfescent or hairy ; stems thick, often warty, simple or sparingly 

 branched. Leaves fiesliy, cuneate at base, ovate to rhombic, acute, 

 angled or toothed-lobed, rarely entire, the lower petioled, blade . 1 or 

 more long, the upper sessile ; the floral oblong-lenticular. Corolla 

 white, with violet sjjots, .02 long, tube somewhat exserted, limb ir- 

 regularly split; fruiting calyx .04 long, .015 broad, with broad, 

 triangular, muticous teeth, about one-sixth as long as tube — Spring — 

 Palmyrene Desert ; Wilderness of Judea, and southward to Sinai, and 

 Egypt. 



2. H, pu§illu§, L. 8ufeird. .05 to .3, crisp papillose-pubes- 

 cent ; stem erect, simple or branching from neck. Leaves oblong to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire, sinuate-repand to pinnatifid and pin- 

 natipartite. Corolla .015 to .02 long, yellow with purplish throat, in- 

 cluded tube, and oblique limb with nearly equal lobes ; fruiting calyx 

 .015 long, .006 broad, with triangular, prickly-pointed teeth, about 

 one-fourth as long as tube — March to June — Hauran ; Sinai. 



