282 SOLAKACE.E. 



II. NIGER, L. Black Henbane. 



Stem branching, erect, very leafy; leaves clasping, si nn at 3- toothed and angled; 

 flowers sessile, in one-sided at length rjeurved leafy epikog. 



A tall foetid weed, flparingly naturalized, grains about wa*te rla^s Ju>. 

 Annual. SUm. I to 2 feat hij;h, round. Flowers lar?e d all-yellow, with lark 

 pie veins. A powerful narcotic Introduced from Earope. 



4. NICANDRA, Adans. Apple of Peru. 



Named after the pcet Niaxtuler, of Colophon. 



Calyx 5-parted, 5-angled, the divisions arrow-/'. .- 

 enlarged and inflated in fruit, inclosing the 3 to 5-celled 

 globular dry berry. GofcOLLA open -bail-shaped, with the 

 plaited border nearly entire. Stamens 5, converging. — An 

 annual smooth herb, with ovate sinuate-toothed or aw fled teams 

 and solitary pale blue flowers on axillary and terminal pe~ 

 duncles. 



N. EHTSALOIDES, Goerfc. Apple of I 



Asm herba:;ons; leaves smooth, sinuate, angular; flvwsn solitary, mUUltj oc 

 short peduncles; calyx closed with the angles verj acatc. 



Cultivated grounds, sparingly naturaliz d. Native of Peru. An- 

 feet high, very branching, ieases large, oblong deourrent. CbroUa siighUj 

 pule blue, white and wita 5 blue spots in the oentre, 



5: PHYSALIS, Linn. Ground Cherry 



Gr. phusa, a Madder, alluding to ths inflated calyx. 



Calyx 5-cleft, persistent, at length much inflated. Co* 

 BOLLA spreading-bell-shaped, with a very short tube, mat 

 •with 5 concave spots at the base; border plaited, som ■ 

 5-lobed. Stamens 5, converging, Faurr a 2-cef led globu- 

 lar berry, enclosed within the inflated calyx. — Herbs, r 

 shrubs, with the lea-vis often unequally in pairs, and axillary 

 or extra-axillary floaters on one-fljiosred peduncles. 



1, P. viscosa, L. Ground Cherry. YeUow ILinbeme. 



CHamniy-pubeaccnt, Io-k, very dinufnly branched ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanei 

 heart-shaped or acu!as at base, somewhat angled to tthed or entire; fi )wers nodding. 



Dry fields and bill-side.*, cmia:oa. July, Au;. P:>r. A very variable plant aid 

 embracing many nominal .ip- sie •.. Stem .-.': >ut 1 foot high, m ; a 

 Leeves 1 to 4 inches Long, }u to ;'i or area na wttl ,•, a;.it;, acuminate, or often *b- 

 taso at th? apex. 0>roV.-% pale greenish-yellow-witb 5 brownish spots at base. Zkr- 

 ry yeUowish, pleasant tasted, wholly inclosed in the much inflated e^iys. 



2. P. Philadelphia, Lank- Philadelphia Ground- 

 Cherry, 



Smoothish, erect, leens-t obliquely ovato, pointed, angled, uilyz open in. fruit, 

 scarcely inclosing tho berry. 



Dry rlvar banks. July, Aun. " Flviszri larger than In the preoeading spoelea,. 

 j allow, with brown stripes/' 



