SOLANACEAE. 



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Datura fastuosa L., Garden Datura, Asiatic, a tall glabrous herbaceous 

 species, with repand leaves often 8' long, the sharply toothed calyx 2'-3' long, 

 the white to purple corolla 6'-8' long, often double or triple, with long-tipped 

 lobes, the erect capsules about '2' long, covered Avith short stout prickles, is 

 grown for ornament. 



8. NICOTIANA [Tourn.] L. 



Viscid-pubescent narcotic herbs or shrubs, with large alternate entire or 

 slightly undulate leaves, and white yellow greenish or purplish flowers, in 

 terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx tubular-campanulate or ovoid, 5-cleft. 

 Corolla-tube usually longer than the limb, 5-lobed, the lobes spreading. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla; filaments filiform; anther-sacs 

 longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-celled (rarely 4-celled) ; style slender ; 

 stigma capitate. Capsule 2-valved, or sometimes 4-valved at the summit. 

 Seeds numerous, small. [Named for John Nicot, French ambassador to 

 Portugal, who sent some species to Catherine de Medici, about 1560.] About 

 50 species, mostly natives of America. Type species: Nicotiana Tdbacum L. 



Annual herb with pink flowers. 

 Shrub or tree with yellow flowers. 



1. N. Tabactim. 



2. N. glauca. 



1. Nicotiana Tabacum L. 



Tobacco. (Fig. 370.) Annual, 

 3°-6° high, little branched. Leaves 

 oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 4'-12' 

 long, sessile, acute or acuminate 

 at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 the lower ones decurrent on the 

 stem; calyx about V long, its lobes 

 ovate; corolla funnelform, about 

 2' long, pink, its lobes triangular, 

 acuminate ; capsule longer than the 

 calyx. 



Occasional on walls and in waste grounds. Introduced. Native of continental 

 tropical America but its original home unknown. Formerly extensively cultivated 

 in Bermuda but very little at the present time : in 1903 the Botanical Station is 

 recorded to have had enough seedlings to plant six acres. Flowers in summer and 

 autumn. 



