NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Solanaceas. 



Like the foregoing, also naturalized, the 

 purpureum leaves more heart-shaped, roundish, or ob- 

 Magenta long, and all of them stemmed. Flowers 



May- magenta. Less common, from N. Eng. to 



September p ft 



An annual, with spreading hranches, 

 Hemp Nettle anc j severa | c i rc ii n g clusters of small pale 

 (rateopsis 



Tetrcthit magenta flowers (the lower lip purple- 



Magenta- striped) gathered at the stems of the floral 

 purple leaves. Name from the Greek, weasellike, 



from the fancied resemblance of the flower 



to the head of a weasel. The tiny flowers 

 white-hairy, the flower-cup bristly. Leaves ovate, 

 toothed, hairy, and pointed. Plant-stem square, very 

 hairy, with hairs pointing downward, and conspicuously 

 swollen below the joints. Cross-fertilized by the bum- 

 blebees and smaller bees, Bombus vagans a most frequent 

 visitor. 10-18 inches high. Common in waste places 

 and gardens, everywhere. Naturalized from Europe. 



Hairy perennial herbs, with tubular bell- 



8ha P ed fl wers > clustered in circles, 6-10 

 palusfris in eacn circle > and forming a terminal 



Magenta-pur- spike. The upper part of the light ma- 

 ple, or paler genta-purple flower and its green cup (ca- 

 JU ' y b lyx ^ hairy- Leaves stemless, or the lower 



ones short-stemmed, ovate lance-shaped 

 or longer, scallop-toothed, downy-hairy, rather obtuse, 

 and rounded at the base. Plant-stem square, 1-3 feet 

 high. Wet grounds, N. Eng. to Pa., and west. 



Like the foregoing, but with mostly 



smooth flowers, leaves sometimes smooth, 

 purple and nearly all distinctly stemmed ; the 



July- plant-stem taller, commonly smooth on 



September tne s id es> b u t stiff-hairy at the angles. 

 The flower-spike slender. Stem 2-4 feet high. Common 

 on wet grounds, everywhere. 



NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Solanacece. 



Mostly herbs with alternate leaves and regular, perfect 

 flowers ; the five-lobed corolla with generally five sta- 

 mens and a very small stigma. Foliage strongly scented. 

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