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coarsely toothed. Flowers solitary in the forks of the stem, 

 white with tube three inches long followed by an erect oval 

 seedhead, one to two inches long, covered with stout prickly 

 spines or thorns. It is of a poisonous nature and its extinc- 

 tion was urged in a proclamation of 1679. Waste places and 

 cultivated ground. Its leaves are smoked for lung affections. 

 Annual. Summer months. 



Datura Tatula. Linn. (datura.) A tall species of the 

 above genus- attaining to ten feet high, closely resembling the 

 above except that its stem is purple, and flowers bluish-white 

 with purple veins, six inches long. These hang like bells, or 

 inverted trumpets, in great profu.sion. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn.. 



Datura Metel. Ivinn. (prickly burr.) A stout, erect, 

 shrubby plant, three to six feet high. Branches succulent, 

 cylindrical. I^eaves distant, six to eight inches long, four to 

 six inches wide, ovate, velvety, slightly-shaped, hanging 

 downwards, six inches long, white, followed by seed head, 

 pendulous, covered with spiny prickles. Biennial (?) May 

 to September, occasionally earlier, occasionally later. One of 

 these shrubs with its white bell-shaped blossoms contrasting 

 with its foliage, is a remarkable sight. Originally a garden 

 plant, it has spread on waste ground abundantly. 



Datura Suavedlens. H. B., or Brugmansia. (moon plant.) 

 Both single and double flowering is not unlike the above, 

 except in not attaining such growth, and its bell shaped flowers 

 with less covered lip are cream or yellowish in colour, often 

 erect instead of pendulous. This is for the most part a 

 garden plant,, though occasionally found outside of cultivation. 

 Perennial. Maj- and June. 



Nicotiana Tabacum. L,inn. (tobacco.) A plant four to six 

 feet high, with large, slightly downy, lanceolate leaves, entire. 

 Flowers pink, two inches long, erect. Its locality is around 

 ruins and occasionally dry waysides, by their walls. A rem- 

 nant of what was at one time cultivated here. Annual. July 

 to September. The early records of the islands show that at 

 one time a large trade was done here in the shipment of tobacco 

 to Bngland. From the luxurious growth of the stray plants 



