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enclosed in tlie persistent calyx, 2-colle(l, openin"^ transversely all round near 

 tlie apex, which falls off like a lid. — Claminy-puhescent, fetid", narcotic herhs, 

 with lurid Howers in the axils of angled or toothed leaves. (Nam*' composed 

 of us, v6s, a liof/, and Kva/xoi, a bean ; said to l)e poisonous to swine.) 



H. Nir.EU, L. (Black IIknbaxi:.) Biennial or annual ; leavefl claspinp^, 

 sinuate-toothed and angled; Howers sessile, in one-siilod leafy si)ikes; corolla 

 dull yellowish, strongly reticulated with ])urple veins. — Escaped from gardens 

 to roadsides. (Adv. from Ku.) 



7. DATURA, L. Jamkstown-Weed. Thoun-Ai'itk. 



Calyx ])rismatic, 5-toothed, separating transversely ahove the base in fruit, 

 the upper part falling away. Corolla funiud-furm, with a large and sjtreading 

 5-l()-tootlied jdaited border. Stigma ^-lipjicd. Capsule gl(»hular, ]>ricklv. 

 4-valved,:2-celled, with 2 tliick placentic ])rojfcted from the axis into the middle 

 of the cells, and connected with the walls by an imperfec-t false ]»artition, so 

 that the cajisule is 4-celkHl except near the ti»p, the jdacenta^ 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 ])e(luncles iu 

 the forks of the brauchin;[; stem ; produced aUsummerand autumn. (Altered 

 from the Arabic name, Tato^ah.) 



D. Stkam^xhm, L. (Common Stramomi m or Thorn Apple.) Annual, 

 glabrous ; leaves ovate, sinuate-toothed or angled ; stem f/rren ; corolla white 

 (3' long), the border with 5 teeth ; lower ])rickles of the cajjsule mostly shorter. 

 — Waste grounds; a well-known ill-scented weed. (Adv. from Asia?) 



D. Tatlla, L. (Pl-rple T.) Mostly taller; stem purple; corolla pale 

 violet-purple ; prickles of the capsule nearly equal. — Waste grounds, iu the 

 Atlantic States. (Adv. from trop, Amer.) 



8. NICOTIAN A, Tourn. Tobacco. 



Calyx tubular-bell-sliaped, .'i-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. — Kank acrid-narcotic 

 herbs, mostly clammy-])ubesceut, with ample entire leaves, and racemed or 

 panicled flowers. (Named after John Nicot, who was thought to have intro- 

 tluced Tobacco (N. Tab.Ict.m, L.) into Europe.) 



N. RusTiOA, 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 X. V. westward and southward; a relic 

 of cultivation by the Indians. (Of unknown nativity.) 



Ordkr 75. SCKOPHULARIACE^. (Figwokt Fa.mily.) 



Chiejiy herbs (rarely trees), tcith didynamons stamens (or perfect stamens 

 often only 2, rarely 5) inserted on the tube of the 2-Upped or more or less 

 irrer/ular corolla, the lobes of which are imbricated in the hud ; fruit a 2- 

 celled and usually many-seeded capside, with the placentce in the axis ; seeds 

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

 single; stigma entire or 2-lol)ed. Leaves and inlL^re.si-ence various; but 

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

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



I. ANTIRRHINIDE.E. Ujjper lip or lobes of the corolla covering the lower 

 iu the bud (with occasiomil excei)tions in Mimulus, etc.) Caj)sule usually 

 septicidal. 



