NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 715 
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ALABAMA: Over the State. Rubbish heaps, yards, pastures, about dwellings. 
Flowers violet; July to October; fruit ripe, September, October. Common every- 
where. Annual. 
Economic uses: The leaves are used in domestic practice as a substitute for Stra- 
monium. 
Type locality not given. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Datura stramonium L. Sp. Pl. 1:179. 1753. 
CoMMON THORN APPLE. JAMESTOWN OR JIMSON WEED. 
Ell. Sk. 1:275. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 377. Chap. Fl. 352. Gray, Syn. FI. N. A. 2, pt. 
1:240. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 434. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1:544. 
TEMPERATE AND TROPICAL REGIONS OF THE GLOBE. MEXICO, BRAZIL. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario, to Flor- 
idaand Louisiana, west to Missouri, Arkansas, and California. 
ALABAMA: Adventive, coast region. Waste places, ballast ground. Mobile 
County. Flowers white, July to September; fruit ripe, September, October. Of late 
years frequently observed on ballast heaps, spreading to adjacent waste places. 
Not recorded from the interior. Two to 3 feet high. Annual. 
Economic uses: The leaves and seeds are used medicinally, forming the Stramo- 
nium leaves, thorn-apple seeds; ‘‘Siramonii folia,” ‘‘Stramonii semen” of the United 
States Pharmacopeia. 
Type locality: “Hab. in America, nunc vulgaris per Europam.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Datura meteloides Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13, pt.1:544. 1852. MrtTe.-Likn DaTuRA. 
Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1:240. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:302. Wats. Bot. 
Calif. 1: 544. é 
NORTHERN MEXICO. 
Lower Sonoran and Louisianian areas. Sonthwestern Texas, Arizona, and southern 
California, 
ALABAMA: Adventive from southwestern Texas. Autauga County, near Pratt- 
ville. Roadsides. Flowers mauve purple; June. Infrequent. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘In calidis Novae Hispaniac regionibus,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
NICOTIANA L. Sp. Pl. 1: 180. 1753. 
Fifty species, warmer temperate and tropical America. Northern and Southern 
hemispheres. North America, 10, endemic. 
Nicotiana glauca Graham in Hook. Bot. Mag. 55: 2837. 1828. 
; ARBORESCENT TOBACCO. 
BRAZIL, ARGENTINA. 
Adventive with ballast, western Florida, Pennsacola (1872 and 1893.) 
ALABAMA: Baldwin County, Navy Cove, August, September, 1896 (Dr. Fowler). 
Arborescent, 10 to 12 feet high. 
Type locality: Raised from seeds sent “from Buenos Ayres.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Nicotiana longiflora Cav. Dese.106. 1802. LONG-FLOWERED TOBACCO. 
Adventive from Chile, Buenos Ayres. 
ALABAMA: Mobile County, fugitive on ballast. Flowers greenish white; July. 
Annual. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Nicotiana repanda Willd.; Lehm. Nicot. 40, ¢.3. 1818. REPAND-LEAF TOBACCO. 
Gray, Syn. F1.N. A. 2, pt. 1: 242. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 303. 
Mexico, CuBA. 
Lower Sonoran area. Southwestern Texas. 
AtaBbaMa: Autauga County, Prattville; waste places. Adventive years ago from 
southwestern Texas or Mexico with wool. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘“ Hab. in Cuba.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
