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

 the 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 fo, v6s, a hog, and Ktianos, a bean ; said to be poisonous to swine.) 



H. NIGER, L. (BLACK HENBANE.) Biennial or annual ; leaves clasping, 

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

 dull yellowish, strongly reticulated with purple veins. Escaped from gardens 

 to roadsides. (Adv. from Eu.) 



7. DATURA, L. JAMESTOWN- WEED. THORN-APPLE. 



Calyx prismatic, 5-toothed, separating transversely above the base in fruit, 

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

 5-10-toothed plaited border. Stigma 2-lipped. Capsule globular, prickly, 

 4-valved, 2-celled, with 2 thick placentae projected from the axis into the middle 

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

 that the capsule is 4-celled except near the top, the placentae as if on the middle 

 of these false partitions. Seeds rather large, flat. Rank weeds, narcotic- 

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

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

 from the Arabic name, Tatorah.) 



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 ; lower prickles of the capsule mostly shorter. 

 Waste grounds ; a well-known ill-scented weed. (Adv. from Asia?) 



D. TATULA, L. (PURPLE T.) Mostly taller ; stem purple ; corolla pale 

 violet-purple ; prickles of the capsule nearly equal. Waste grounds, in the 

 Atlantic States. (Adv. from trop. Amer.) 



8. NICOTIAN A, Tourn. TOBACCO. 



Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, 5-cleft. Corolla funnel-form or salver-form, usu- 

 ally with a long tube ; the plaited border 5-lobed. Stigma capitate. Capsule 

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

 herbs, mostly clammy-pubescent, with ample entire leaves, and racemed or 

 panicled flowers. (Named after John Nicot, who was thought to have intro- 

 duced Tobacco (N. TABACUM, L.) into Europe.) 



N. RtisTicA, L. (WILD TOBACCO.) Annual; leaves ovate, petioled; tube 

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

 the lobes rounded. Old fields, from N. Y. westward and southward ; a relic 

 of cultivation by the Indians. (Of unknown nativity.) 



ORDER 75. SCROPHULARIACEJE. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



Chiefly herbs (rarely trees), with didynamous stamens (or perfect stamens 

 often only 2, rarely 5) inserted on the tube of the 2-lipped or more or less 

 irregular corolla, the lobes ofivhich are imbricated in the bud ; fruit a 2- 

 celled and usually many-seeded capsule, with the placentae, in the axis ; seeds 

 anatropous, or amphitropous, with a small embryo in copious albumen. Style 

 single ; stigma entire or 2-lobed. Leaves and inflorescence various ; but 

 the flowers not terminal in any genuine representatives of the order. 

 A large order of bitterish plants, some of them narcotic-poisonous. 



I. ANTIRRHINIDE ^E. Upper lip or lobes of the corolla covering the lower 

 in the bud (with occasional exceptions in Mimulus, etc.) Capsule usually 

 septicidal. 



