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of its leaves, spoil the impression which might be 
made by the beauty of the blossoms were they not 
Fic. 59.—Jimson-weed (Datura stramonium). 
so lowly born. Growing with the jimson-weed we 
may find its first cousin, the Datura tatula, a 
smaller plant bearing flowers strongly tinged with 
