376 SOLANACEAE (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY) 
more than ten thousand pounds of the seeds, costing three to seven 
cents a pound. 
Means of control 
Pull or closely cut the plants before the ripening of the earliest 
capsules. - 
PURPLE THORNAPPLE 
Datira Téiula, L. 
Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: May to September. 
Seed-time: August to November. 
Range: Ontario to Minnesota, southward to Florida and Texas. 
Habitat: Fields and waste places. 
A near relative of the Jimson Weed and equally poisonous. 
Stems one to five feet tall, fork-branched, smooth, deep purple. 
Leaves dark green, with purple veins and petiole, more hairy than 
the preceding species, long ovate, and coarsely toothed. The flar- 
ing lips of the trumpet-like corollas are violet or lavender, paling 
to white in the throat. The prickly capsule or “apple”’ is also 
purple, the thorns on its surface a little longer and stouter than 
those of the Jimson Weed. Seeds similar in appearance. 
Means of control the same as for the Jimson Weed. 
HAIRY THORNAPPLE 
Datura Metel, L. 
Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: July to September. 
Seed-time: September to December. 
Range: New England to Florida, westward to Ohio. 
Habitat: Roadsides and waste places. ~ 
Escaped from gardens, where it was cultivated for its beauty, 
but a dangerous stray in the highways. Stems four to eight feet 
tall, stout, much branched, finely glandular-hairy. Leaves four 
to ten inches long, broadly ovate, acute, inequilateral, entire or 
sometimes slightly wavy-edged, covered with fine, glandular 
hairs which give the surface a soft, velvety look. Flowers white, 
the trumpet-shaped corolla often six or seven inches long, the flar: 
