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THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



547. Capsicum annuum. 



aa. Plants prickly. 

 S. Melongena, Linn. Eggplant. Guinea squash. Fig. 288. Stout annual 

 with large, ovate, somewhat angled pubescent leaves: flower large, purplish, 

 the calyx prickly: fruit a very large purple or white berry (often weighing 

 several pounds). India. 



3. LYCOPERSICUM. Tomato. 



Differs from Solanum chiefly in having the anthers 

 united at their tips by a membrane and opening by 

 lengthwise slits. 



L. esculentum, Mill. Common tomato plant. Tall, 

 hairy, strong-smelling herb, with pinnate leaves, the 

 leaflets ovate and unequal -sided and of different sizes: 

 flowers small, yellow, in short forked racemes: fruit a 

 large red or yellow berry. South America. 



4. CAPSICUM. Red Pepper. 



Erect, branchy, smooth herbs: stamens with slender filaments which 

 are much longer than the separate anthers, the 

 latter opening by lengthwise slits: fruit globular, 

 long or irregular, firm. 



C. annuum, Linn. Common red pepper. Fig. 

 547. Annual or biennial, with ovate entire leaves: 

 flowers white, with very short-toothed or trun- 

 cate calyx: fruit very various in the cultivated 

 varieties. Tropical America. 



5. PETUNIA. Petunia. 



548. Petunia nyclaginiflora. 

 Clammy-hairy diffuse herbs: calyx-lobes leaf- 

 like and much longer than the tube; corolla funnelform, showy, the stamens 

 not projecting: fruit 2-loculed, capsular. South America. 



P- nyctaginiflora, Juss. White petunia. Fig. 548. Corolla white, very long- 

 tubed: leaves oval-oblong, narrowed into a petiole. 

 P. violacea. Lindl. Fig. 549. Weaker and more 

 diffuse: corolla purple or rose, the tube short and broad: 

 leaves ovate or oval, nearly or quite sessile. The gar- 

 den petunias are mostly hybrids of the 2 species. 



6. DATURA. Jamestown-weed or Jimson-weed. 



Very strong bushy herbs, with large, long-tubular, 

 short-lived flowers from the forks of the branches: 

 stigma 2-parted: fruit a globular usually prickly cap- 

 sule, opening by 4 valves. 



D. Stramonium, Linn. Fig. 275. Annual, 3-5 ft., 

 the stem green: leaves ovate, sinuate or angled: corolla 

 white. Tropics; common weed. 



D. Tatula, Linn. Stem and corolla purple. 



549. Petunia. 



Very near the original 



P, violacea. 



