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a line or two long, from oval or obovate to oblong or spatulate, or on vigorous 

 shoots 3 lines long and almost linear: flowers nearly sessile or on pedicels of one 

 or two lines in length : tube of the white corolla included in the campanulate 

 4-toothed calyx, its 4 oval rotately spreading lobes hardly a line long. 



Near San Diego, on clay-hill slopes, Nullall (without flowers), Cooper, Cleveland. The 

 flowers barely 2 lines long, on slender short pedicels in Dr. Cooper's specimen, but nearly sessile 

 in those "I Mr. Cleveland ; the plants otherwise similar. Foliage apparently as fleshy as in L. 

 Carol inianum, 



+- +- Corolla a third to half an inch in l< ngth. 



4. L. Fremontii, Gray, 1. c. Minutely soft-puberulent, 2 to 4 feet high: leaves 

 spatulate, 1 to U lines lung: pedicels not longer than the oblong-campanulate or 

 cylindraceous calyx : corolla white with some purplish, tubular, 4 to 6 lines long, 

 5-lobed, the lobes ovate and very short : filaments nearly naked. 



California or Nev.nl: ' I'mrumt, 1819 (the station unknown). There is a vox. (') Bigelovii, 

 Gray, with shorter flowers, in Arizona. 



5. L. Torreyi, Gray, 1. c. Glabrous, 3 to 8 feet high: leaves nearly spatulate 

 or oblanceolate, (J to 14 lines long: pedicels usually as long as the ailyx (2 lines 

 long): corolla white or tinged with purple, 5 or G lines long, tubular-funnelfnrui 

 gradually enlarging from base to summit, with 4 or 5 short and broad spreading 

 lobes, the edges of these, minutely tomentosc : filaments woolly at base: berries 

 red, "not edible." — Parry in Axu. Nat. ix. 348. 



Southeastern borders of the State, lower part of the Kio Colorado to S. Utah, on low saline 

 llat^, Thomas, Cooper, Parry, kc. Extends eastward to the borders of Texas. 



6. L. Andersonii, Gray. Eesembles the preceding; but is lower, 2 to 4 feel 

 high, smaller-leaved, very abundantly flowered; the white corolla narrower and 

 more tubular, 5 lines long, its limb only 2 or 3 lines wide, and its short rounded' 

 lobes with naked edges : pedicels and calyx only a line long: berries bright red, 



or amber-colored, " ripening a month earlier than those id' I he preceding, edible." — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 388; Watson, Bot. King Exp. 275; Parry, 1. c. 



Rocky hills in the desert region, borders of S. Nevada (Audi rson) to Utah ( Watson, Parry) : not 



certainly known within the limits of the State. — Var. Wrightii, Gray, is a re leafy and 



sparsely flowered form, with smaller flowers, collected by C. Wright and E. Palmer in Arizona, 

 and perhaps to be found on the Kio Colorado. 



8. DATURA, Linn. Stramonium. Thorn-Apple. 

 Calyx prismatic or tubular, 5-toothed, deciduous after flowering by a transverse 

 separation near the base, which persists as a circular plate under the fruit. Corolla 

 funnel form, with an ample expanded border which is strongly 5-pIaited and the 

 plaits convolute in the bud. Stamens mostly included ■ filaments long and filiform : 

 anthers opening lengthwise, style long: stigma 2-lipped. Capsule thickish, 

 prickly or muricate all over, with 2 proper cells, each divided mere or less by 

 a false partition which hears the two broad transverse placentae across its middle. 



s I< very numerous, rather large, reniform. Embryo slender and coiled. — 



Plants (our species coarse herbs), of rank odor and narcotic-poisonous qualities; 

 with "\ oe petioled leaves, and solitary mostly large flowers in the forks of the 

 stem, mi shorl peduncles, produced through the season, Corolla commonly white 

 or tinged with violet, sometimes fragrant. 



( liiillv natives of tropical America, but new widely diffused ever ihc world. Tin re is n section, 



Brugrn > . con i ting of soft-w led arbore nt or shrubby plants, with pendulous flowi 



huge Bize, ol which tl mmonosl is l>. irrorka, the Tree Stramonium, not rue in cultivation, 



and which may stand the winter without protection in the southern pari of tho State. t'ur 

 wild or spontaneous p herbs, with the flower erect 



