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7. HTOSCl^AMTJS, HENBANE. (Name of the Greek words for hog 

 and bean.) Fl. summer, (j) ® 



H. niger. Black Henbane, of Europe, cult, in old gardens, and a weed 

 in waste places : clamiHy-downy, strong-scented, narcotic-poisonous ; with clasp- 

 ing sinuate-toothed leaves, sessile flowers in one-sided leafy-bracted spikes, and 

 dull yellowish corolla netted-veiny with purple. 



8. ATROP A, BELLADONNA. (Named after one of the Fates.) ^ 

 A. Bellad6nna, the only species, sparingly cult, from Europe : low and 



spreading, nearly smooth, with ovate entire pointed leaves, flowers single or in 

 pairs nodding on lateral peduncles, dull-purple corolla, and handsome purple 

 berry ; whole plant poisonous, used in medicine. 



9. PETUNIA. (Pe«un is an aboriginal name of Toftacco.) Cultivated as 

 garden-annuals, from South America. The common Petunias are of the two 

 following species and their hybrids : herbage clammy-pubescent ; flowers large 

 and showy, in summer. 



P. nyctaginiflbra, with originally white corolla, the long narrow tube 

 3 or 4 times the length of the calyx. 



P. violkcea, now much the more common, with weaker stems, and violet- 

 purple or rose-red corolla, the broader and ventricose tube hardly twice the 

 length of the calyx. 



10. NIEREMBERGIA. (Named for J. Nieremberg, a priest and botani- 

 cal collector in Buenos Ayres, whence the common species comes.) y. ® 



N. grd.cilis. Cult, for ornament under many varieties, low, with slender 

 bushy branches, small linear or spatulate-linear leaves, and scattered flowers 

 produced all summer, white or veined or tinged with purple. 



11. WICOTIANA, TOBACCO. (Named for John Nicot, one of the in- 

 troducers of Tobacco into Europe.) Rank, acrid-narcotic, mostly clammy- 

 pubescent plants, chiefly of America; leaves entire or merely wavy-margined. 

 Fl. summer. 



IT. Tab^cum, Common T., the principal species cult, for the. foliage: 4°- 

 6° high, with lance-ovate decurrent leaves l°-2° long, or the upper lanceolate, 

 panieled flowers, and rose-pm^ple funnel-form corolla 2' long, with somewhat in- 

 flated throat and short lobes. ® 



N. riistica, a weed in some places, is a low homely plant, with ovate and 

 petioled leaves 2' -5' long, and green funnel-form corolla (1' long) contracted 

 under the short round lobes. ® 



N. longiflbra, is slender, 2° - 3° high, cult, for its handsome white flow- 

 ers, which open toward evening ; corolla salver-shaped, the green tube 4' and 

 the lancc-ovate acute lobes ^' long ; leaves lanceolate,- undulate. ® 



W". noctiflbra, its handsome white flowers also opening at evening (as the 

 name denotes), is similar to last, but with ovate-lanceolate petioled leaves, tube 

 of corolla only 2' - 3' long, and its roundish lobes notched at the end. Q) 



12. DATURA, THORN-APPLE, STRAMONIUM, &c. (Name altered 

 from the Arabic. ) Rank-scented, mostly large-flowered, narcotic-poisonous 

 weeds, or some ornamental in cultivation : fl. summer. 



§ 1 . Mower. and the usually prickhj i-valved pod erect, the latter resting on a plate 

 or saucer-shaped bmy which is the persistent base of the calyx, the whole 

 upper part of which falls off entire after flowering : corolla viith a 5-toothed 

 border. (T) 



D. Strambnium, Common T. or Jamestown-Weed. Waste grounds : 

 smooth, with green stems and white flowers (3' long) ; leaves ovate, angled, or 

 sinuate-toothed. 



D. T&tula, Purple T. A weed very like the other, but rather taller, with 

 purple stem and pale violet-pnrple flowers. 



