302 soLANACEiE. [Daturci. 



connlry except in some of the northern parts; I noticed it frequently at Montreal 

 and around Quebec in 1846. 



IV. Datura,* Linn. Thomapple. 



" Calyx tubular, deciduous. Corolla funnel-shaped, angular, 

 plaited. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Stigma 2-lobed, 

 Capsule lialf-4-celled, 4-valved." — Br. Fl. 



1 1. D. Stramonium, L. Common Thomapple. " Herbaceous, 

 leaves ovate angulate-sinuate glabrous, fruit ovate erect clothed 

 with numerous nearly equal spines." — Br. Fl. p. 282. E. B. t. 

 1288. 



By roadsides, in waste and cultivated ground, about towns, on dunghills and 

 in newly turned-up soil of fields, gardens or building-lots ; here and there spora- 

 dically, and scarcely persistent long together in any one station. Fl. July, Au- 

 gust, i^r. September, October. 0. 



E. Med. — On the Dover, Ryde, a plant or two occasionally. In Turner's nur- 

 sery-ground, and in the garden of Williams's hotel, Shanklin, where it has been 

 growing fur many years, but was most likely sown originally in both for medici- 

 nal purposes. Garden-ground at INiton. A weed in the garden of the Kev. — 

 Girard, at Godshill. In a lane at the N.E. end of G idshill, Mr. W. D. Srwoke. 

 On the sea-wall under the grounds at Apley, Miss T. Price ! In the garden of 

 the Rev. Wm. Darwin Fox, at Binstead. At Ryde, I. of W., Mr. S. Woods in 

 Bot. Guide. 



W. Med. — In Northwood park, near the circular reservoir, ou ground formerly 

 a garden. 



Root whitish, tripering, with lateral simple or branched fibres. Stem herba- 

 ceous, erect, from about 1 to 3 feet high, pale yellowish green, roundish or 

 obscurely angular, stout, firm, smooth and succulent, fistulose in the centre, gla- 

 brous or nearly so below, dichotomously and divaricately branched, snbcompressed 

 and laterally groo^ed above, with a short pubescence on the upper side of the 

 branches chiefly. Leaves unequal in size, the lowermost very large, dull green, 

 somewhat fleshy or succulent, glabrous or slightly pubescent, on slightly chan- 

 nelled terete petioles shorter than themselves ; alternate, those at the top appearing 

 to be opposite, but always with a rudimentary or nascent branch in the axil of 

 each, showing the real mode of arrangement ; ovate, often unequal at base, 

 coarsely and unequally sinuate-dentate and angular, almost lobed, the teeth very 

 acute, strai{;ht or a little uncinate, mucronate-apiculate, the sinuses shallow or 

 rounded ; beneath paler, with about 8 or 9 very promineut terete ribs. Floioers 

 solitary, in the forks of the branches or between the highest and opposite leaves, 

 very sweet-scented, like primroses, and most so towards evening, on very short, 

 stout and downy peduncles. Calyx pale yellowish green, membranous, slightly 

 pubescent. If inch in length, erect, smooth, ovate-oblong, with 5 acutely plicate 

 angle-like ribs terminating in as many unequal triangular teeth or segmeuts, with 

 marcescent points ; slightly contracted below the .summit. Corolla while, mem- 

 branous, yellowish or cream-colouicd before expansion, twice the length (if the 

 calyx, funnel-shaped, the tube yellowish green and a little contracted in the mid- 

 dle, the limb plicately 5-ribbed and angled, each angle terminating in one of the 

 5 subulate oblique points of the corolla. Stamens inserted at the top of the tube, 

 much shorter than the corolla, the inferior half of their terete filaments dilated, 



* Dhilonra, Hindostanee ; Khala D'haioora, Bengalee; Krishna Dhaturra, 

 Sanscrit : Thomson's ' London Dispensatory,' who says these oriental synonyms 

 belong to D. fastuusa, but are probably applied as well to D. Melel, D. Tatula 

 and ourcomnion Stramonium, all natives of the East. 7a(4)'aA, Arabic, according 

 to Forskol. 



