WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
is much used for pies and preserves. The Night-shade 
is extremely variable, and ranges from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific, and from Nova Scotia to the North- 
west Territory and south to the Gulf States. It is 
also a widely distributed and common plant in nearly 
all countries. 
JAMESTOWN, OR JIMSON-WEED. DEVIL’S 
TRUMPET. STRAMONIUM 
Datura Straménium. Potato Family. 
The well-known, rank-odoured, showy-flowered 
Jimson-weed’s chief occupation seems to be in hiding 
the unsightly scars created by ruthless man, in the 
shape of refuse piles, public dumps, and neglected 
barnyards. The dried leaves are smoked in a pipe 
by people seeking relief from asthma. The fruit is 
poisonous, and the flowers have been known to pro- 
duce serious results when held in the mouth. This 
plant is a stout, smooth, bushy annual with a coarse 
green stem, growing from one to five feet high. The 
large, thin, smooth leaves are pointed-oval in outline 
with an irregular, wavy, toothed margin. They have 
a veined surface, and are long stemmed. The large, 
showy, Morning-glory-like white flowers, which 
open late in the afternoon, have a heavy odour, and 
grow erect and solitary from the forks of the branches. 
The large, tubular calyx is five toothed and angular. 
The five-pointed, funnel-formed corolla has a deep 
throat and contains five stamens and a pistil. The 
Indians call this species the “White Man’s Plant.” 
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