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purple ; style and slender filaments equalling its lobes ; berry oval, orange-red. 

 (L. Ba'rbarum, L., in part.) — About dwellings ; and escaped into waste grounds 

 in Pennsylvania, &c. June- Aug. (Adv. IVoni Eu.) 



5. HYOSCYAMUS, Tourn. Henbane. 



Calyx bell-shaped or urn-shaped, 5-lobed. Corolla funncl-iorm, oblique, with 

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

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

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

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

 vs, idr, o lioq, and Kvafios, (t bean; said by ^lian to be poisonous to swine.) 



1. H. xiciiiK, L. (Black Henbane.) Biennial or annual ; leaves clasp- 

 ing, sinuate-toothed and angled ; flowers sessile, in one-sided leafy spikes ; co- 

 rolla dull yellowish, strongly reticulated with purple veins. — Escaped from 

 gardens to roadsides. (Adv. from Eu.) 



6. DATURA, L. Jamestown-Weed. Thorn-Apple. 



Calyx prismatic, .'i-toothed, separating transversely above the base in fruit, 

 the upper part falling away. Corolla funuel-form, with a large and spreading 

 5 - 10-toothed plaited border. Stigma 2-lipped. Pod globular, prickly, 4-valved, 

 2-cclled, with 2 thick placentie projected from the axis into the middle of the 

 cells, and connected with the walls by an imperfect false partition, so that the 

 pod is 4-celled except near the top, the placenta; as if on the middle of these 

 false partitions. Seeds rather large, flat. — Rank weeds, narcotic-poisonous, 

 with ovate leaves, and large and showy flowers on short peduncles in the forks 

 of the branching stem ; produced all summer and autumn. (Altered from the 

 Arabic name, Tnlomlt.) 



1. D. Stram6nium, L. (Common Stramonium or Thorn Apple.) 

 Annual, glabrous; leaves ovate, sinuate-toothed or angled; stem green; corolla 

 white (3' long), the border with 5 teeth. — Waste grounds : a well-known weed. 

 (Adv. from Asia.) 



2. D. TAtula, L. (Purple T.) Mostly taller ; stem purple ; corolla pale 

 violet-purple. Thought to be sjjecifically distinct fronj the last, on aeeo'unt of the 

 behavior of the cross-breeds. (Adv. from trop. AmehJ) 



7. NICOTIANA, L. Tobacco. 



Calyx tubular-bcll-shapccl, .'i-cleft. Corolla funnel-form or salver-form, usu- 

 ally with a long tube; the plaited border 5-Tobed. Stigma capitate. Pod 2- 

 celled, 2- 4-valved from the apex. Seeds minute. — Rank acrid-narcotic herbs, 

 mostly clammy-pubcseeiit, with ample entire leaves, and racemcd or panicled 

 flowers. (Named after .Aj/(n Nicot, who was thought to liave introduced the 

 Tobacco (N. Tabacum, L.) into Europe.) 



1. N. rlstica, L. (Wild Tobacco.) Annual; leaves ovate, petioled ; 

 tube of the dull greenish-yellow corolla cylindrical, two thirds longer than the 

 calyx, the lobes rounded. — OM fields, from New York westward and south- 

 ward • a relic of cultivation by the Indians. (Adv. from Trop. Anier.) 



