250 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Obs. This singular plant—formerly a great pest among the fiax crops 
become quite rare, since the culture of flax has de panels ene 
are several native species of this genus, the most common of h, Ci 
Grono’ Willd., is oftenseen in swampy pices fc from Auphiae i ‘Ovi 
ber, twining over other plants in tangled m _ ch have been 
likened to bunches of threads of yarn, and to aoe wit 
Orver LIL. SOLANA’CER. (NieguTsHaDE F'amizy.) 
Mostly d alternate 1 without stipules, regular 5-merous and 
eanacons oo less Sea corolla, plicate or infolded-valvate in the bed 5 
rted into ree po as many as its whee and ‘iersate with them. 
at titel 3-5- peed many- qeeded acini or eapenle ; Pesan with fleshy albumen. 
i metimes the tollbgs and 
trait are e highly poisonous, while on the other hand it eran Bess. of our most valuable 
escule: 
Sacks Ssliki ela Stamens closely converging or united around the style. Fruit 
a ber 
Anthers longer than the very short filaments, and connected hao? Rerace path 
opening lengthwise. : 
Not connected, opening at the top by two pores. 2. agro: 
—— —— than the filaments, heart-shaped, opening length- 
ry inflated, pod-like, pulp very pungent. 3. CAPSICUM. 
#*Corolla ees a wheelehn aped and bell-shaped. Anthers separate. 
Calyx becoming age . PHYSALIS. 
***Corolla funnel-shaped, b haped or tubular. Stamens separate ; 
filaments slender. Ca alyx ve toatied or 5 ‘obed. 
rubby with vine-like branches and narrow leayes. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, small. Fruit a berry. 5. LycrM. 
Annual herbs wit! 
— 
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h an unpleasant odor. Fruit a pod. 
la and on a er irregular, -y Pod in the urn-shaped calyx 
re paar a prickly. 7. DATURA 
Calyx not angled, persistent. Pod smooth. 8. NICOTIANA. 
1. LYCOPER’SICUM, Tournef. Tomaro.. 
{Literally Wolf-Peach ; a metaphorical name, haying reference to the per 
Calyx 5 —10-parted, persistent. Corolla rotate ; Peat ; short ; 
plicate, 5 —10-lobed, Suse $x Ade: exserted sbiomenia, 
cohering by an nny brane at deahimit: ‘hetatiaie ae 
on the inner side. ge ee with the placentz adnate to the to tie 
dissepiment, man —3-celled. . Seeds numerous, 
form,  palpyiloas. Leaves ne ari dissected. Flowers in jateral 
L. xscuten’tum, Mill. m herbaceous ; ae interruptedly 
Gibbipianates— —the Semaiie oe lance-ovate, acuminate, 
deeply incised-serrate ; fruit depressed-globose, mostly torose. 
Escutenr Lycoperstcum. Tomato, or "Podaitiee, Love-apple. 
‘Fr. Pomme d’ amour. Germ. Der Liebes-Apfel. Span. Tomate. 
