258 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
5-lobed more or less are Ler border. Stamens declined. 
Pod poco in the persistent cal -celled, opening transversely all 
— near the apex, which falls off like “aid, Clammy pubescent, fetid, 
cotic aie with lurid flowers in the axils of the angled or toothed 
oes 
i ths 7, L. Leaves clasping, sinuate, toothed and angled ; flow 
ogg’ in comaiiad co spikes ; corolla dull yellowish, strongly mes 
lated with purple v: 
Buack penuieaees pdiniien or “ese: epee 
Annual or biennial. Whole plant viscid a airy, 0 us hue. Stem 1 
feet high. Lower leaves petioled, spreading on <a pol og Calan olasely: <a tibweds ng th 
ws vessel, , Strongly netted- -veine . Seeds numerous, kidney-shaped, the surface cereale 
reticuial 
Road-sides and waste places. Native of Europe. July-August. 
* Obs. This plant ae * as i ly gorge as yet, is power- 
fully narcotic and p at feapine a leaf, or a drop of 
the j pes of of the plant £ falling te the eye, Fiaten oe pupil in a remark- 
able It is used in medicine as a substitute, i e cases, for 
7. seca Foc E: mAAiaee 
dt fi Tatorah ; the Arabi lant.¥ 
Calyx tubular, prismatic, separating transversely above the base j in fruit. 
seh olla funnel-form, Sal Soe bik 
ma 
globose, prickly, — ly smooth), 
half 4-celled at summit, 4-valved. 
ua. 
cotic leaves, somewhat in oF 
pairs, and large, solitary, axill r 
dichotomal flowers, on short pe 
duncles. 
Jamestown (corruptly Jimson) weed. 
Thorn-apple. 
166 
Fy. Pomme epineuse. Germ. Der 
Stech-apfel. Span. Estramonio. 
aiemneapoaaina 
Fic. 166. A capsule of the Thorn apple (Datura Stramonium). 
