NIGHTSHADE FAMILY 



Flowers. — Funnel-shaped, open-throated, two inches across, slightly 

 irregular, five-lobed; each lobe with a notch, and ranging in color from 

 various shades of purple and blue, through reds and yellows, to cream- 

 white, beautifully pencilled and veined with darker colors. 



Calyx. — ^Tubular, five-cleft, hairy. 



Cofo//a.— Funnel-shaped with slender tube for half its length, then 

 suddenly swelling; lobes five, plicate, emarginate, full of nectar at the 

 base. 



Stamens. — Four, in two pairs, inserted on the tube at the point where it 

 begins to enlarge; fifth stamen a sterile filament. 



Ovary. — Oblong; style slender; stigma dilated. 



Salpiglossis attracts attention anywhere because of the riot of 

 color presented by the bloom. Purple, blue, red, yellow, orange, 

 and cream, in bewildering combinations, and then each flower 

 veined and pencilled with darker lines than the basic color. • In 

 fact, when the plant was first introduced, species were set apart 

 based upon color alone; but these, of course, have been given up. 



Salpiglossis is easy of cultivation, blooms in midsummer and on 

 into late autumn. The plants should be grown in masses, as the 

 bare stems make a single individual look weedy. 



NICOTIANA 



Nicotiina alclta. 



Named in honor of John Nicot, French Ambassador to Portugal in 

 the sixteenth century, who was instrumental in spreading a knowl- 

 edge of tobacco. 



One of the best garden species of garden Nicoliana, called both alata 

 and ajjinis in the catalogues. From two to four feet high, bearing long, 

 white, tubular, fragrant flowers which open toward evening and con- 

 tinue through the night, closing after sunrise. Entire plant more or 

 less pubescent. Blooms until winter. 



Stem. — Slender, strong, viscid-pubescent, three feet high. 



Leaves. — Lance-pbovate or ovate-elliptic, the upper one lanceolate, the 

 lower one narrowed into a petiole-hke base which is dilated where it 

 joins the stem. 



Flowers.— Kanote, in a wand-Uke raceme, white, salver-form, with 

 slender tube three inches long. 



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