CLXXIV. 

 DATURA STRAMONIUM. 



Common Thorn-apple. 



Class V. Pentandria. — Order I. Monogynia. 

 Nat. Ord. SolanejE. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubular, deciduous. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, plaited. Capsule incompletely four-celled, four- 

 valved. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous. Leaves ovate, angular- 

 sinuate, glabrous. Fruit oval, erect, spinous. 



SYNONYMES. 

 Greek .... <rrpu%vos pavixos. 



( Solanum foetidum, porao spinoso, &c. Bauh. Pin. 168. 

 Stramonium spinosum. Ger. Em. 348. 

 Stramonium majus album. Park. Parad. 360. Rail Hist. 



J f J 748 * 



] Tatula. Cam. Epit. 176. 



Stramonium foetidum. Scop. Cam. 252. 



Datura Stramonium. Lin. Sp. PI. 255. Eng. Fl. i. p. 314. 

 ^ Eng. Bot. 1288. 



French Stramoine ; Pomme epineuse ; Herbe aux sorciers. 



Italian .... Stramonio ; Pomo spinoso. 



Spanish.. . . Estramonio. 



Portuguese. Estramonia. 



German... Stechapfel ; Staehelnusskraut ; Tollkraut. 



Dutch .... Doornappel ; Dolappel. 



Danish .... Piigaeble; Galurt. 



Swedish . . . Spikklubboert. 



Polish Psinki ; Tondera. 



Russ Durnischnik. 



Description. — The root is annual, woody, branched, whitish, 

 and fibrous. The stem is herbaceous, thick, cylindrical, fis- 

 tular, smooth, pale shining green, simple below, dichotomously 

 branched above, and rises to the height of two feet. The leaves 



