POPULAR PLOBA. 



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Morning-Glory. Ipom&a. 



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

 3 to 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. 



Wild M. (or Man-of-the-Eaeth). Smooth ; root huge, perennial ; leaves heart-shaped, entire or 

 some of them narrowed in the middle; flowers 1 to 5 on a peduncle, white with purple in the 

 tube, opening in sunshine. Sandy banks. /. ; 



68. NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Order SOLANACE^. 



Herbs, or sometimes shrubs, with a colorless 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 beriy or pod. Corolla plaited in the bud, or valvate, i. e. the lobes placed 

 edge to edge. 



45B. Upijer part of the corolla of Stramonium (Fi^. 177) in bud. 459. Croaa-Beclion of the eame, to ahow how it is iilaited and folded. 



. Flower of^Tobacco. 461. Its pod and calyx 



I. Same, with the upper part cut away 



Flowers and berries of Bittersweet 



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NighUhade. 484. 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 fllaments, and 



Connected with each other, opening lengthwise. Berry several-celled, (Lycqpersicum) *ToMATa 

 Not grown together, opening at the top by two pores, (Solanum) Nightshade. 



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

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



( Capsicum) *Cap8icdm. 



