solanace^e. (nightshade family.; 383 



purple : style and slender filaments equalling its lobes ; berry oval, orange-red. 

 (L. Bavbarum, L., in part.) — About dwellings ; and escaped into waste grounds 

 in Pennsylvania, &c. June- Aug. (Adv. from Eu.) 



5. HYOSCYAMUS, Tourn. Henbane. 



Calyx bell-shaped or urn-shaped, 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-form, oblique, with 

 a 5-lobed more or less unequal plaited border. Stamens declined. Pod en- 

 closed in the persistent calyx, 2-celled, opening transversely all round near the 

 apex, which falls off like a lid. — Clammy-pubescent, fetid, narcotic herbs, with 

 lurid flowers in the axils of angled or toothed leaves. (Name composed of 

 vs, vos, a hog, and icvafxos, a bean ; said by JElian to be poisonous to swine.) 



1. H. niger, L. (Black Henbane.) Biennial or annual ; leaves clasp- 

 ing, sinuate-toothed and angled ; flowers sessile, in one-sided leafy spikes ; co- 

 rolla dull yellowish, strongly reticulated with purple veins. — Escaped from 

 gardens to roadsides. (Adv. from Eu.) 



6. DATURA, L. Jamestow t n-Weed. Thorn-Apple. 



Calyx prismatic, 5-toothed, separating transversely above the base in fruit, 

 the upper part falling away. Corolla funnel-form, with a large and spreading 

 5- 10-toothed plaited border. Stigma 2-lipped. Pod globular, prickly, 4-valved, 

 2-celled, with 2 thick placentas projected from the axis into the middle of the 

 cells, and connected with the walls by an imperfect false partition, so that the 

 pod is 4-celled except near the top, the placentas as if on the middle of these 

 false partitions. Seeds rather large, flat. — Rank weeds, narcotic-poisonous, 

 with ovate leaves, and large and showy flowers on short peduncles in the forks 

 of the branching stem ; produced all summer and autumn. (Altered from the 

 Arabic name, Tatorah.) 



1. D. Stram6nium, L. (Common Stramonium or Thorn Apple.) 

 Annual, glabrous ; leaves ovate, sinuate-toothed or angled ; stem green ; corolla 

 white (3' long), the border with 5 teeth. — Waste grounds : a well-known weed. 

 (Adv. from Asia.) 



2. D. Tatula, L. (Purple T.) Mostly taller; stem purple; corolla pale 

 violet-purple. Thought to be specifically distinct from the last, on account of the 

 behavior of the cross-breeds. (Adv. from trop. Amer. ?) 



7. NICOTIANA, L. Tobacco. 



Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, 5-cleft. Corolla funnel -form or salver-form, usu- 

 ally with a long tube ; the plaited border 5-lobed. Stigma capitate. Pod 2- 

 celled, 2 - 4-valved from the apex. Seeds minute. — Rank acrid-narcotic herbs, 

 mostly clammy -pubescent, with ample entire leaves, and racemed or pamcled 

 flowers. (Named after John Nicot, who was thought to have introduced the 

 Tobacco (N. Tabacum, L.) into Europe.) 



1. W. rustica, L. (Wild Tobacco.) Annual; leaves ovate, petioled; 

 tube of the dull greenish-yellow corolla cylindrical, two thirds longer than the 

 calyx, the lobes rounded. — Old fields, from New York westward and south- 

 ward • a relic of cultivation by the Indians. (Adv. from Trop. Amer.) 



