NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 715 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Rubbish heaps, yards, pastures, about dwellings. 

 Flowers violet; July to October; fruit ripe, September, October. Common every- 

 where. Annual. 



Economic uses : The leaves are used in domestic practice as a substitute for Stra- 

 monium. 



Type locality not given. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Datura stramonium L. Sp. PI. 1 : 179. 1753. 



COMMON THORN APPLE. JAMESTOWN OR JIMSON WEED. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 275. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 377. Chap. Fl. 352. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1:240. Gnseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 434. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 544. 



TEMPERATE AND TROPICAL REGIONS OF THE GLOBE. MEXICO, BRAZIL. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario, to Flor- 

 ida and Louisiana, west to Missouri, Arkansas, and California. 



ALABAMA: Adveiitive, coast region. Waste places, ballast ground. Mobile 

 County. Flowers white, July to September ; fruit ripe, September, October. Of late 

 years frequently observed on ballast heaps, spreading to adjacent waste places. 

 Not recorded from the interior. Two to 3 feet high. Annual. 



Economic uses: The leaves and seeds are used medicinally, forming the Stramo- 

 nium leaves, thorn-apple seeds; "Stramonii folia," "Stramonii semen" of the United 

 States Pharmacopoeia. 



Type locality : "Hab. in America, nunc vulgaris per Europam." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Datura meteloides Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 1 : 544. 1852. METEL-LIKE DATURA. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1:240. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 302. Wats. Bot. 

 Calif. 1 : 544. 



NORTHERN MEXICO. 



Lower Sonoran and Louisianian areas. Southwestern Texas, Arizona, and southern 

 California. 



ALABAMA: Adventive from southwestern Texas. Autauga County, near Pratt- 

 ville. Roadsides. Flowers mauve purple; June. Infrequent. Annual. 



Type locality: " In calidis Novae Hispaniae regionibus." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



NICOTIANA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 180. 1753. 



Fifty species, warmer temperate and tropical America. Northern and Southern 

 hemispheres. North America, 10, endemic. 



Nicotiana glauca Graham in Hook. Bot. Mag. 55 : 2837. 1828. 



ARBORESCENT TOBACCO. 



BRAZIL, ARGENTINA. 



Adventive with ballast, western Florida, Pennsacola (1872 and 1893.) 



ALABAMA: Baldwin County, Navy Cove, August, September, 1896 (Dr. Fowler). 

 Arborescent, 10 to 12 feet high. 



Type locality : Raised from seeds sent "from Buenos Ayres." 



Herb. Geol. JSurv. Herb. Mohr. 



Nicotiana longiflora Cav. Desc. 106. 1802. LONG-FLOWERED TOBACCO. 



Adventive from Chile, Buenos Ayres. 



ALABAMA: Mobile County, fugitive on ballast. Flowers greenish white; July. 

 Annual. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Nicotiana repanda Willd. ; Lehm. Nicot. 40, t. 3. 1818. REPAND-LEAF TOBACCO. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 242. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 303. 



MEXICO, CUBA. 



Lower Sonoran area. Southwestern Texas. 



ALABAMA: Autauga County, Prattville; waste places. Adventive years ago from 

 southwestern Texas or Mexico with wool. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Cuba." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



