NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Solanaceae. 



A branching and erect-stemmed species, 

 irginia mostly smooth. The ovate lance-shaped 



Ground Cherry '' . , , , -, 



Fhusalis leaves tapering toward both ends very 



Virginiana slightly shallow-toothed and light green. 

 Pale yellow The flower dull pale yellow with five brown- 

 Ju'y- purple spots ; anthers deep yellow. The 



stigma matures before the anthers, and 

 extends beyond them. Fertilized by the honeybee and 

 the bees of the genus Halictus ; Halictus pectinatus is a 

 common visitor (Prof. Robertson). The reddish berry 

 enclosed within the enlarged calyx. 1-3 feet high. 

 Rich soil, Vt. and N. Y., south to La., and west to Minn. 

 Physalis pubescens, the strawberry tomato, is downy, 

 with angular leaves. The flower light green-3'ellow. 

 brown-spotted at the throat, with violet anthers. Fruit 

 green-yellow. Escaped from cultivation eastward, 



A rank-smelling annual weed with a 

 Thorn Apple smooth, green, stout stem, and thin ovate. 

 or Jamestown ^^^^^^^ angularlv coarse-toothed leaves, 

 orJimson ,. -, ^-t ■, • , , 



■y^ggj shm-stemmed. The white trumpet-shaped 



Datura flowers about 4 inches long, with a light 



Stramonium green cals^x less than half the length of 

 ^**'*® the corolla, which has five sharp-pointed 



September lobes. The green fruit -capsule, ovoid, 



about 2 inches long, and covered with 

 stout prickles, the longest of which are at the tip of the 

 capsule. 1-5 feet high. In waste places and vacant 

 city lots, from Me., south, and west to Minn, and Tex. 

 Naturalized from Asia. 



A similar species with a slenderer stem, 

 Purple Thorn ^^^ darker green leaves both more or less 

 D^atiira Tatula stained with magenta. Flowers like those 

 Magenta= of the preceding species, but the flaring 



lavender tips of the corolla stained with magenta or 



^^y- lavender, or the tube nearly white. All 



ep em er ^^^^ prickles of the capsule nearly equal in 



length. 1-5 feet high. In waste places from Vt., N. Y., 

 and Minn., southward. Rare in Vermont. 



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