170 SOLANACEAE, Vou Tile 
2. Datura Métel 1. Entire-leaved 
Thorn-Apple. Fig. 3730. 
Datura Metel L. Sp. Ploazo. 1753. 
Annual, densely and finely glaindular-pubes- 
cent; stem stout, much branched, 4°-8° high. 
Leaves broadly ovate, acute at the apex, ine- 
quilateral, rounded or subeordate at the base, 
4-10’ long, entire or merely undulate; petioles 
V’-¥ long; flowers white, 67-77 high, the limb 
3-4 broad; calyx tubular, aboyt one-halt as 
long as the corolla; capsule globose or oveid- 
globose, obtuse, prickly and pubescent, 1-14 
a A 2 
i in diameter 
ac Vy in diameter. 
AS I 
In waste places, escaped from gardens, Rhode 
Islind to Florida, Native of tropical America, 
July Sept. 
11. NICOTIANA | Tourn.] L. Sp. Pl. 180. 1753. 
Annual or perennial viscid-pubescent acrid narcotic herbs or shrubs, with large alternate 
entire or slightly undulate leaves, and rather large white yellow greenish or purplish flowers, 
in terminal, often bracted, racemes or panicles. Calyx tubular-campanulate or ovoid, 5-cleft. 
Corolla funnelform, salverform, or nearly tubular, the tube usually longer than the limb, 
5-lobed, the lobes spreading, Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla; filaments 
filiform; anthers ovate or oblong, their sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-celled (rarely 
4-celled); style slender; stigma capitate. Capsule 2-valved, or sometimes q-valved at the 
summit. Seeds very numerous, small, [Named for John Nicot, Preneh ambassodar to 
Portugal, who sent some species to Catherine de Medici, about 1560,] 
About 50 species, mostly natives of America. Resides the following, some ro others occur in 
the southern and western United States. ‘Type species: Nicotiana Tabacum 1. 
Corolla 1’ long, the tube cylindric; calyx-lobes triangular, . 1. Nv rustica, 
Corolla 4’-6’ long, the tube very slender; calyx-lobes linear or narrowly 
lanceolate. 2. N, longiflora, 
1. Nicotiana ristica 1. Wild To- 
bacco. Vig. 3731. 
Nicotiana rustica L. Sp. Pl. 180. 1753. 
Annual; stem rather slender, 2°-4° high. 
Leaves broadly ovate, thin, entire, slender- 
petioled, 2’-8’ long, 1’-6’ wide; petioles 
4’~54’ long; flowers greenish-yellow, about 
1’ long, panicled; pedicels 3-6” long, rather 
stout; calyx-lobes broadly triangular, acute, 
shorter than the tube; corolla-tube cylin- 
dric, somewhat enlarged above, the lobes 
short, obtuse, slightly spreading; capsule 
globose, glabrous, about 5” in diamcter, 
2-valved, longer than the calyx. 
In ficlds and waste places, escaped from 
gardens, Ontario to Minnesota, south to south- 
ern New York and Florida. Cullivated hy the 
Indians, its origin unknown. Leaves greenish 
when dry. Indian, Syrian or real-tobacco. 
June-Sept. 
