SSO 85. Nicotiana. 26. SOLANE^. PL ex, cor. 



Leaves may be smoked for the same purposes as Ame- 

 rican tobacco. 



IV. 86. STRAMONIUM. Lobel. Thorn-apple. 

 Calyx large, tubular, bellied, 5-angular; apex 5-cut, 



falling off; base orbicular, peltate, persistent ; corolla very 

 large, funnelshape; tube long; limb 5-angular, 5-plaited, 

 J5-pointed ; stamens 5 ; stigma 2-lamellar i capsule rough or 

 smooth, half ovate, 4<-celled j valves 2 or 4 ; dissepiments 

 prominent. 



Stramonium Jhetidum, Stinking thorn-apple. 



Capsules ovate, thorny, upright ; lecives ovate, sinuate, 

 bald, narrowed at bottom into a petiole, 



Solaniim pomo spinoso obloogo, flore calathoide, stramonium Tulgo 

 dictum. Rati Syn. 266, 1 . 



Stramonium spinosum, Ger. em. 348, 2} Lamcirpk Fl. Gall- 

 Stramonium majus album, Park. 360. 

 Datura Stramonium, Lin. S. P. 255. 

 Stramonium fcetidum, Scop. Cam. 252. 

 Stramonium vulgalum, Gterin. Fr. et Sent. 2,243. 

 Datura lurida, Salisb. Prod. 131. 



Dunghills, waysides, naturalised from America; annual j 



Herb lurid, narcotic; stem forked, spreading, 3-feet high; 

 leaves from the fork ; flowers axillary, white. — Leaves given 

 internally bring on delirium, itching, eruptions and inflam- 

 mation of the skin ; these effects are counteracted by acetous 

 or citric acid ; the expressed juice of the leaves inspissated, 

 used in doses of 2 to 16 grs. a day, is useful in convulsive 

 and epileptic diseases : ointment made from them is ano- 

 dyne : the seeds used internally produce the same effects as 

 the leaves; the root and lower part of the stem smoked as 

 tobacco is antispasmodic. 



V. 87. ATROPA. Linnaeus. Dwale, 

 Calyx bellshape, 5-cut; corolla bellshape, double the 



length of the calyx ; stamens 5, equal ; flXaments thread- 

 shape, downy at bottom ; anthers oval ; stigma capitate ; 

 berry globose, sitting on the calyx. — Stem caulescent; leaves 

 mostly in pairs ; flowers extra-axillary, solitary, or rather 

 crowded. 



Atropa Icthalis. Deadly dwale. 



Stem herbaceoug ; leaves ovate, edge not cut. 



