POPULAR PLOEA. 



185 



Morning-Glory" Ipomaia. 



1. Common M. Annual; stem hairy, the hairs bent downwards; leaves heart-shaped, entire; flowers 

 3 to 5 on the peduncle; flowers purple or pink varying to white, opening early in the morning, 

 closing iu bright sunshine ; pod 3-oelled. Cult. &c. /. purpurea. 



2 WiLiD M. (or Man-of-the-Earth). Smooth ; root huge, perennial ; leaves heart-shaped, entire or 

 some of them narrowed in the middle; flowers 1 to 6 on a peduncle, white with purple in the 

 tube, opening in sunshine. Sandy banks. I. pwnduratus. 



68. NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Order SOLANACE^. 



Herbs, or sometimes shrubs, with a colorless bitter or nauseous juice (often poisonous) ; 

 alternate leaves ; and regular flowers, with 5 (or in cultivated plants sometimes 6 or 7) 

 mostly equal stamens and one pistil. Ovary with 2 or more cells, in fruit becoming a 

 many-seeded berry or pod. Corolla plaited in the bud, or valvate, i. e. the lobes placed 

 edge to edge. 



458 Upper part of the corolla of Stramonium (Pi?, 177) in bud. 459. Cross-section of the name, to show how it ia plaited and folded. 

 46J. Flower of Tobacco. 461 lis pod and calyx. 462. Same, with the upper part cut away 463. Flowers and berries of Bittersweet 

 NighUhade. 464 Flower of Henbane. 465. Pod of the same, opening by a lid. 



Corolla wheel-shaped : stamens closely converging or united around the style (Fig. 

 182, 183). Fruit a berry. 

 Anthers longer than the very short filaments, and 



Connected with each other, opening lengthwise. Berry several-celled, (Lycoperdcum) *Tomato. 

 Not grown together, opening at the top by two pores, (Solcmum) Nightshade. 



Anthers shorter than the filaments, heart-shaped, separate, opening lengthwise. Berry 

 pod-like, inflated, the pulp very pungent (Cayenne or Bed Pepper), 



[Cdpsieum) *Capsicum. 



