POPULAR FLORA. 



185 



Morning-Glory. Ipamia. 



1. Common M. Annual; stem hairy, the hairs bent downwards; leaves heart-shaped, entire; flowers 



3 10 5 on the peduncle; flowers purple or pink varying to white, opening early in the morning, 

 closing in bright sunshine ; pod 3-celled. Cult. &c. /. purpurea. 



2. Wild M. (or Man-of-the-Eakth). &3iooth ; root huge, perennial ; leaves heart-shaped, entire or 



some of them narrowed in the middWH^flowers 1 to 6 on a peduncle, white with purple in the 

 tube, opening in sunshine. Sandy bM^s. /. ; 



68. NIGHTSHAIXE FAMILY. Order SOLANACE^. 

 Herbs, or sometimes shrubs, "with Eu^'olorless bitter or nauseous juice (often poisonous) ; 

 alternate leaves ; and regular flowers, with 5 (or in cultivated plants sometimes 6 or 7) 

 mostly equal stamens and one pistil. Ovary with 2 or more cells, in fruit becoming a 

 many-seeded berjy or pod. Corolla plaited in the bud, or valvate, i. e. the lobes placed 

 edge to edge. 



458. Upjier part of the torolla of Stramonium (Pi?. 177) in bud. 439. Crosa-seclion of Ihe same, Ut show how il ia plaited and foIuR. 

 AG). Flower of^Tobacco. 461. Ita pod and calyx. 462. Same, with the upper part cut away 463. Flowera and berciea of Bittersweet 

 Nightabade. 464. Flower of Henbane. 465. Pod of the same, opening by a lid. 



Corolla wheel-shaped : stamens closely converging or united around the style (Fig. 

 182, 183). Fruit a berry. 

 Anthers longer than the very short filaments, and 



Connected with each other, opening lengthwise. Berry several-celled, ( Lycopersicum) *Tomato. 

 Not grown togSther, opening at the top by two pores, (Soldnum) Nightshade. 



Anthers shorter than the filaments, heart-shaped, separate, opening lengthwise. Berry 

 pod-like, inflated, the pulp very pungent (Cayenne or Red Pepper), 



[Capsicum) *Capsicum. 



