340 SOLANACE^E. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 



lobed, small (3" -4" long), not spotted; calyx with broadly triangular-subulate 

 teeth as long as the tube, in fruit conical-ovate and sharply 5-angled (I'-l^ 

 long). Light soils, not rare southward. Perhaps introduced. 



Var. ? Philadelphia. Nearly glabrous ; calyx-teeth shorter and broader, 

 less closed or open at the summit in fruit ; corolla sometimes brownish in the 

 throat. (P. Philadelphia, Lam., &c.) New England? to Illinois and south- 

 ward. July - Sept. 



2. P, pubescens, L. Pubescent or clammy-hairy, diffusely much branched 

 or at length decumbent ; leaves ovate or heart-shaped (very variable) ; corolla 

 (4' - 5" long) dark brown in the throat ; calyx with triangular-lanceolate acute 

 teeth, in fruit ovate-pointed. (P. hirsuta, DunaL P. obscura, Michx. in part, 

 &c.) Low grounds ; common southward and westward. 



# # Root perennial: anthers yellow. ( Corolla ' - f long.) 



3. P. viscosa, L. Clammy-pubescent, diffusely much branched and 

 widely spreading, or at first erect (^-2 high) ; leaves ovate or slightly heart- 

 shaped, sometimes oblong, often roughish-downy underneath, repand-toothed, 

 obtusely toothed, or entire ; corolla almost entire, brownish in the throat ; teeth 

 of the clammy-hairy calyx ovate-lanceolate. (P. Pennsylvanica, L., P. hetero- 

 phylla, Nees, and P. nyctaginea, Dunal, appear to be only states of this.) 

 Light or sandy soils, New England to Wisconsin and southward ; very common. 

 July - Sept. Corolla |' - 1' broad when expanded. 



3. NICANDRA, Adans. APPLE OF PERU. 



Calyx 5-parted, 5-angled, the divisions rather arrow-shaped, enlarged and 

 bladder-like in fruit, enclosing the 3-5-celled globular dry berry. Corolla 

 open-bell-shaped, the plaited border nearly entire. Otherwise much like Phy- 

 salis. An annual smooth herb (2 -3 high), with ovate sinuate-toothed or 

 angled leaves, and solitary pale blue flowers on axillary and terminal peduncles. 

 (Named after the poet Nicander of Colophon.) 



1. Bf. PHYSALoh>ES, Gffirtn. Waste grounds, near dwellings. (Adv. 

 from Peru.) 



4. HYOSCYAMUS, Toura. HENBANE. 



Calyx bell-shaped or urn-shaped, 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-form, 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 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 

 vs, vds, a hog, and Kua/ios, a bean ; the plant said by JElian to be poisonous to 

 swine.) 



1. H. NIGER, L. (BLACK HENBANE.) Leaves clasping, sinuate-toothed 

 and angled ; lowers sessile, in one-sided leafy spikes ; corolla dull yellowish, 

 strongly reticulated with purple veins. Escaped from gardens to road- 

 sides. (Adv. from Eu.) 



