3K) SOLAXACE^E. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 



lobed, small (3" -4" long), not spotted; calyx with broadly trianguhir-subiriata 

 teeth as long as the tube, in fruit conical-ovate and sharply 5-angled (l'-H 

 long). Light soils, not rare southward. Perhaps introduced. 



Var. ? PllilcUlelpIliCtl. Nearly glabrous ; calyx-teeth shorter and broader, 

 less closed or open at the summit in fruit ; corolla sometimes brownish in tha 

 throat. (P. Philadelphia, Lam., &c.) New England? to Illinois and south- 

 ward. July - Sept. 



2. P pllbcSCCHS, L. Pubescent or clammy-hairy, diffusely much branched 

 or at length decumbent; leaves ovate or heart-shaped (very variable); corolla 

 (4' -5'' long) dark brown in the throat; calyx with triangular-lanceolate acute 

 teeth, in fruit ovate-pointed. (P. hirsuta, Dunal. P. obscura, Michx. in part, 

 &c.) Low grounds; common southward and westward. 



* * Root perennial : anthers yellow. (Corolla '- long.} 



3. P, viscosa,, L. Clammy-pubescent, diffusely much branched and 

 widely spreading, or at first erect (-2 high) ; leaves ovate or slightly heart- 

 shaped, sometimes oblong, often roughish-downy underneath, rcpand-toothed, 

 obtusely toothed, or entire ; corolla almost entire, brownish in the throat ; teeth 

 of the clammy-hairy calyx ovate-lanceolate. (P. Pennsylvania, L., P. hetero- 

 phylla, Nees, and P. nyctaginea, Dunal, appear to be only states of this.) 

 Light or sandy soils, New England to Wisconsin and southward ; very common. 

 July- Sept. Corolla |'-1' broad when expanded. 



3. NICANDRA, Adans. APPLE OF PERU. 



Calyx 5-partcd, 5-angled, the divisions rather arrow-shaped, enlarged and 

 bladder-like in fruit, enclosing the 3 - 5-cclled globular dry berry. Corolla 

 open-bell-shaped, the plaited border nearly entire. Otherwise much like Phy- 

 salis. An annual smooth herb (2 -3 high), with ovate sinuate-toothed or 

 angled leaves, and solitary pale blue flowers on axillary arid terminal peduncles. 

 (Named after the poet Nicander of Colophon.) 



1. N. PHYSALoloES, Gaertn. Waste grounds, near dwellings. (Adv. 

 < Vom Peru.) 



4. HYOSCl r AIttUS, Tourn. HENBANE. 



Calyx bell-shaped or um-shapcd, 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-form, oblique, with 

 a 5-lobed more or less unequal plaited border. Stamens declined. Pod en- 

 closed in the persistent calyx, 2-cclled, opening transversely all round near the 

 apex, which fills off like a lid. Clammy-pubescent, fetid, narcotic herbs, with 

 lurid flowers in the axils of angled or toothed leaves. (Name composed of 

 us, t>os, a /to/, and Kva/Aos, a bean; the plant said by ^Elian to be poisonous to 

 gwine.) 



1. II. NIGER, L. (BLACK HENBANE.) Leaves clasping, sinuate-toothed 

 and angled; iowcrs sessile, in one-sided leafy spikes; corolla dull yellowish, 

 trongly reticulated with purple veins. Escaped from gardens to road 

 aides. (Adv. from Eu.) 



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