NIGHTSHADE FA/VIILY. Solanaceae. 



^ . f. Like the foregoing, also naturalized, the 



purpureum leaves more heart-shaped, roundish, or ob- 



Magenta long, and all of them stemmed. Flowers 



^^y- magenta. Less common, from N. Eng. to 



September p 



An annual, with spreading branches, 

 Hemp Nettle ^^^ several circling clusters of small pale 

 Gdleopsis n , 



Xtjirahit magenta flowers (the lower lip purple- 



Magenta= Striped) gathered at the stems of the floral 



purp'e leaves. Name from the Greek, iveasellike, 



July- from the fancied resemblance of the flower 



to the head of a weasel. The tiny flowers 

 white-hairy, the flower-cup bristly. Leaves ovate, 

 toothed, hairy, and pointed. Plant-stem square, very 

 hairy, with hairs pointing downward, and conspicuously 

 swollen below the joints. Cross-fertilized by the bum- 

 blebees and smaller bees, Bombiis vagana a most frequent 

 visitor. 10-18 inches high. Common in waste places 

 and gardens, everywhere. Naturalized from Europe. 



Hairy perennial herbs, with tubular bell- 

 "totrr*"'* shaped"^ flowers, clustered in circles, 6-10 

 pahistris ^^ each circle, and forming a terminal 



Magenta=pur= spike. The upper part of the light ma- 

 ple, or paler genta-purple flower and its green cup (ca- 

 y" lyx) hairy. Leaves stemless, or the lower 



ones short-stemmed, ovate lance-shaped 

 or longer, scallop-toothed, downy-hairy, rather obtuse, 

 and rounded at the base. Plant-stem square, 1-3 feet 

 high. Wet grounds, N. Eng. to Pa. , and west. 



Like the foregoing, but with mostly 

 Maffenta= smooth flowers, leaves sometimes smooth, 



purple and nearly all distinctly stemmed ; the 



July- plant-stem taller, commonly smooth on 



September ^j-^g g^^jg^^ jj^^ stiff-hairy at the angles. 



The flower-spike slender. Stem 2-4 feet high. Common 

 on wet grounds, everywhere. 



NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Solanacece. 



Mostly herbs with alternate leaves and regular, perfect 

 flowers ; the five-lobed corolla with generally five sta- 

 mens and a very small stigma. Foliage strongly scented. 



