PHYSOCHLAINA 



NIGHTSHADE OBDEB 



NICOTIANA 695 



rooted in cold fi-ames during the summer 

 months in sandy soil in the same way as 

 recommended for Physalis (see p. 690). 



S. carniolica (Hyoscyamua Soopolia). 

 A pretty Eussian herbaceous perennial, 

 1 ft. or more high, with ovate or obovate 

 oblong entire and somewhat cuspidate 

 leaves, 3 in. or more long, on shortish 

 stalks. Flowers in April, lurid red out- 

 side, yellow or green within, f in. long, 

 nodding on slender stalks. The variety 

 concolor (which has also been hladnihiana 

 and fladmihiana) diifers from the type 

 chiefly in having pale yellow drooping 

 bell-shaped flowers about an inch deep. 



Culture Ac. as above. 



S. lurida {WMtleya stramonifolia). — 

 An Indian species, 4-6 ft. high, with 

 ovate acute wrinkled wavy leaves, the 

 larger ones often 6-7 in. long, smooth 

 above, more or less hoary beneath. 

 Flowers in September, changing from 

 green at first to yellow, and at length 

 purple. 



Culture dc. as above. 



PHYSOCHLAINA. — A genus 

 containing 4 species of smooth erect 

 perennials with membranous entire or 

 sinuate leaves. The flowers are borne in 

 loose or dense, erect or drooping corymbs 

 at the ends of the shoots. Calyx tubular 

 bell - shaped 5 - cleft. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped or somewhat campanulate with 

 5 erect or spreading lobes. Stamens in- 

 serted in the middle of the tube. Ovary 

 2-ceUed, becoming a capsule which opens 

 round the middle or near the apex by an 

 entire or fissured lid. 



Culture and Propagation. — These 

 plants somewhat resemble the Scopolias, 

 and like them may be used for the 

 decoration of the flower border or rock 

 garden. They thrive in ordinary good 

 garden soil and may be increased by 

 seeds sown in autumn or spring in frames ; 

 by cuttings of the non-flowering shoots ; 

 or by division of the roots in spring. 



P. g^randiflora. — A native of Thibet 

 about 18 in. high, with downy stems and 

 ovate pointed alternate leaves. Flowers 

 in March and April, greenish-yellow, 

 purple at the edges, drooping and some- 

 what bell-shaped. 



Culture Ac, as above. 



P. orientalis (Hyoscyamus orientalis). 

 A Caucasian perennial 1-lJ ft. high, with 

 downy deltoid ovate entire or sinuate 



leaves. Flowers from March to May, 

 pale purplish-blue, borne in clusters or 

 heads on the stalks. 

 Culture Ac. as above. 



FABIANA. — A genus containing 

 about a dozen species of erect, much- 

 branched, often clammy. Heath-like 

 bushes, with small leaves in clusters, and 

 numerous shortly stalked flowers at the 

 ends of the branches or opposite the 

 leaves. Calyx tubular, bell-shaped, with 

 5 bluntly ovate or rarely linear teeth or 

 lobes. Corolla tube elongated, dilated or 

 inflated at the upper end, and contracted 

 at the mouth ; limb short, 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 5, attached at or below the 

 middle of the corolla tube. Ovary 2- 

 celled. Stigma 2-lobed or nearly peltate. 

 Capsule oblong, many-seeded. 



F. imbricata. — A pretty Chihan 

 Heath-like shrub, about '6 ft. high, with 

 small ovate sessile crowded evergreen 

 leaves, and a profusion of pure white, 

 funnel-shaped flowers in May. 



Culture and Propagation. — Except 

 in the milder parts of the British Islands 

 this plant is not perfectly hardy, and 

 requires protection in bleak cold situa- 

 tions during the winter. It flourishes in 

 ordinary good garden soil, and is excellent 

 for peaty borders, with Heaths, and other 

 Ericaceous plants. It may be increased 

 by cuttings of the ripened or firm yoimg 

 shoots inserted in sandy soil under a 

 handlight in spring, and kept close and 

 shaded for some time. 



NICOTIANA (Tobacco).— More than 

 50 species of Tobacco have been described, 

 but probably not more than 35 are really 

 distinct. They consist chiefly of herbs, 

 or sometimes bushes, with clammy hairs ; 

 rarely smooth and glaucous, somewhat 

 arboreous shrubs. Leaves undivided, 

 entire, or rarely sinuate. Flowers white, 

 yellowish, greenish, or purplish, in ter- 

 minal panicles, or elongated one-sided 

 racemes, with or without bracts, or the 

 lower ones solitary in the leaf axils. 

 Calyx ovoid or tubular, bell-shaped, 5-cleft. 

 Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped, some- 

 times with a very long tube, and 5 spread- 

 ing lobes. Stamens 5, attached below 

 the middle of the corolla tube, enclosed 

 or protruding. Ovary 2-, rarely 4 or more, 

 celled. Capsule many-seeded. 



Culture and Propagation. — The 

 Tobaccos flourish in deep rich moist soil, 

 and warm sunny positions, and are very 



