SOLAN AGE AE (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY) 



373 



inches long and half as wide, obtuse, coarsely toothed on the outer 

 half but entire where they taper abruptly to the short, grooved 

 petiole. Flowers solitary on 

 terminal and axillary pedun- 

 cles, large, the corollas bell- 

 shaped, pale blue or sometimes 

 white with purple throats, 

 nearly two inches in length, 

 the lips scarcely at all lobed 

 and flaring to about the same 

 in width; stamens five, in- 

 serted on the corolla near its 

 base, the filaments short, di- 

 lated and hairy at base ; style 

 slender with three to five- 

 parted stigma and ovary with 

 three to five mostly five 

 cells; calyx at first small, 

 composed of five joined seg- 

 ments, blunt arrowshaped, 

 with conspicuous, backward- 

 turned, acute auricles at base ; 

 these are beautifully net- 



FIG. 259. Apple of Peru (Nicandra 

 Physalodes). X i- 



veined, and enlarge so greatly 



as to quite enfold and conceal the fruit, which is a dry-seeded, 



inedible berry, about a half-inch in diameter. (Fig. 259.) 



Means of control 



Prevent seed formation by close cutting or hand-pulling while 

 the plant is in early bloom. 



BLACK HENBANE 

 Hyoscyamus niger, L. 



Other English names : Fetid Nightshade, Insane Root, Hog's Bean. 

 Introduced. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom : June to September. 

 Seed-time: July to October. 



