PLANTS OF BERMUDA. 53 



suaveolens) is also frequently seen in gardens : it is a leafy, bushy 

 shrub, with large white trumpet -shaped flowers, eight to ten inches 

 in length. 



I. SOLANUM. 



Corolla rotate ( wheel- shaped) ^ tube short ; anthers converging ; fruit 

 a two-celled, many-seeded berry. 



1. S. aculeatissimwn. A perennial, prickly shrub, two to three 

 feet high, branches spreading or trailing, armed with straight 

 prickles quarter to half-inch long ; leaves three to four inches long, 

 ovate, pinnatifid, lobes oblong, margins wavy, midrib and veins 

 prickly, both surfaces clothed with minute stellate down, and dis- 

 tant, long, simple hairs ; cymes few-flowered, stalks slender, flowers 

 drooping ; calyx prickly ; corolla star-like ; anthers quarter of an 

 inch long, yellow, almost sessile ; berry globose, orange -scarlet, 

 three-quarters of an inch in diameter, very poisonous. Distribu- 

 tion, West Indies ; habitat, waysides and woods. Flowers white, 

 half -inch in diameter ; summer months. 



2. S. nigrum (Black nightshade). An annual, erect plant; stem 

 one to two feet, much branched, branches traversed with narrow, 

 thorny wings ; leaves two to four inches long, ovate, smooth, 

 coarsely sinuate toothed, narrowing at base into the winged petiole ; 

 umbels arising from the stem below the leaves, drooping, few- 

 flowered ; calyx-lobes broad, blunt ; stamens smooth ; berry black, 

 globose, one-third of an inch in diameter, seated on the reflexed 

 calyx. Distribution, a very variable plant found in nearly every 

 part of the world ; habitat, waysides and waste places. Flowers 

 white, one-third of an inch ; anthers yellow : summer months. 



II. DATURA. 



Calyx tubular, Jive-angled^ Jive-toothed, early falling off, but leaving a 

 leathery, orbicular belt; corolla funnel-shaped, tube long; capsule two- 

 celled, usually spiny ; seeds kidney -shaped. 



1. B. stramonium (Stinking weed or Thorn apple). An annual, 

 erect plant ; stem green, two to three feet high, smooth ; leaves six 

 to nine inches long, and four to six inches vvdde, ovate, with coarse 

 angular sinuate teeth, unequal at base ; flowers solitary in the forks 

 of the stem ; calyx- tube an inch long ; corolla- tube three inches, 

 cylindrical, limb plaited with five slender, awl-shaped teeth ; anthers 

 distinct, white ; capsule ovate, erect, one and a half inches long, 

 covered with stout spines. Distribution, most temperate and tropi- 

 cal countries ; habitat, common in waste places and cultivated 

 ground. Flowers white ; ]\Iay to August. 



2. B. Tatula, a variety of the above, is the more common form in 

 Bermuda ; the stem is* purple, flowers bluish -white, and anthers 

 purple : the leaves of both are smoked as a remedy for asthma. 



3. B. Metel. A stout, erect, pubescent plant, three to five feet 

 high ; branches succulf^nt, cylindrical, softly hairy : leaves distant, 



