316 NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 



very long and lithe recurved or almost climbing branches, oblong-spatu- 

 late leaves, slender stalked flowers clustered in the axils, and pale green- 

 ish-purple 5-cleft corolla about equaling the 5 stamens ; fruit obtuse, of 

 little beauty. 



L. Chinense, Mill. Chinese M. Less commonly cult, than the last, 

 but more desirable on account of the large (1' long) bright scarlet acute 

 fruit which ripens in August and hangs until early winter ; stems weak 

 and prostrate, 10° long, spiny ; leaves ovate and acute, more or less 

 cuneate at the base ; stamens longer than the bright purple corolla. 



L. Carolinidnum, Walt. Wild in .salt marshes S. Car., >s.; low, spiny, 

 with fleshy, thickened, almost club-shaped leaves, scattered small flowers, 

 and 4-cleft purple corolla shorter than the 4 stamens. 



9. BRUNFELSIA. (Named for the old herbalist. Otto Brunfels.) 

 Conservatory shrubs, cult, under the name of FRANcfscEA, with showy 

 flowers. 



B. latifblia, Benth. Very smooth, with oval or oblong acute leaves, 

 and few fragrant flowers (lavender with a white eye, fading to white) at 

 the end of the branches, 1^' across. Brazil. 



B. grandiflora, D. Don. Peru ; leaves elliptic-oblong, acuminate ; 



flowers 2' across, greenish. 



10. HYOSCYAMUS, HEXBANE. (Greek: hog and bean, i.e., 



swine poison.) Flowers summer. ® (g) 



//. n)ger, Linn. Black Henbane. Of Eu., cult, in old gardens, and 

 a weed in waste places; clammy-downy, strong-scented, narcotic-poi- 

 sonous ; with clasping, sinuate-toothed leaves, sessile flowers in one-sided 

 leafy-bracted spikes, and dull yellowish corolla netted-veiny with purple. 



11. PETUNIA. (Petun is an aboriginal name of Tobacco.) Cultivated 

 as garden annuals, from S. Amer. The common Petunias are mostly 

 hybrids of the two following species ; herbage clammy-pubescent ; 

 flowers large and showy, in summer. 



P. nyctaginiflbra, Juss. Corolla white, the long narrow tube 3 or 4 

 times the length of the calyx ; leaves oval-oblong and narrowed into a 

 distinct petiole ; plant stout and flowers strong-scented at evening. Still 

 occasionally seen in old gardens. 



P. y/'o/dcea, Lindl. Stems weaker ; violet-purple or rose-red corolla, 

 the short, broader, and ventricose tube hardly twice the length of the 

 calyx ; leaves ovate or oval, sessile or very nearly so. Rarely, if ever, 

 seen in gardens in its pure form. 



12. NIERBMBERGIA. (Named for J. E. Xieremberg, a priest and 

 botanical collector in Buenos Ay res, whence the common species 

 comes.) 21 ® 



N. gracilis. Hook. Cult, for ornament, under many varieties ; low, 

 with slender bushy branches, small, linear or spatulate-linear leaves, and 

 scattered flowers produced all summer, white or veined or tinged with 

 purple. 



13. NICOTIANA, TOBACCO. (Named for John Nicot, one of the 

 introducers of Tobacco into Europe.) Rank, acrid-narcotic, mostly 

 clammy-pubescent plants, chiefly of America ; leaves entire oi merely 

 wavy -margined. 



