sso 
85. Nicotiana. 26. SOLANEiE. 
PI. ex. cor . 
Leaves may be smoked for the same purposes as Ame- 
rican tobacco. 
IY. 86. STRAMONIUM. Lobel. Thorn-apple . 
Calyx large, tubular, bellied, 5-angular; apex 5-cut, 
falling off ; base orbicular, peltate, persistent ; corolla very 
large, funnelshape; tube long; limb 5-angular, 5-plaited, 
5-pointed ; stamens 5 ; stigma 2-lamellar ; capsule rough or 
smooth, half ovate, 4-celled; valves 2 or 4 ; dissepiments 
prominent. 
Stramonium fee tidum. Stinking thorn-apple . 
Capsules ovate, thorny, upright ; leaves ovate, sinuate, 
•bald, narrowed at bottom into a petiole. 
Solanum porno spinoso oblongo, flore calathoide, stramonium vulgo 
dictum, Rail Syn. 266, 1. 
Stramonium spinosum, Ger. em. 348, 2 ; Lamarck FI. Gall. 
Stramonium majus album, Park. 360. 
Datura Stramonium, Lin. S. P. 255. 
Stramonium feet id uni, Scop. Cam. 252. 
Stramonium vulgatum, Gcertn. Fr. et Sem. 2, 243, 
Datura lurida, Salisb. Prod . 131. 
Dunghills, waysides, naturalized from America; annual; 
July. 
Herb lurid, narcotic ; stem forked, spreading, 3-feet high; 
■leaves from the fork ; flowers axillary, white.— -Leaves given 
internally bring on delirium, itching, eruptions and inflam- 
mation of the skin ; these effects are counteracted by acetous 
or citric acid ; the expressed juice of the leaves inspissated, 
used in doses of 2 to 16 grs. a day, is useful in convulsive 
and epileptic diseases : ointment made from them is ano- 
dyne : the seeds used internally produce the same effects as 
the leaves; the root and lower part of the stem smoked as 
tobacco is antispasmodic. 
V. 87. ATROPA. Linneeus. Dwale . 
Calyx bellshape, 5-cut; corolla bellshape, double the 
length of the calyx; stamens 5, equal ; filaments thread- 
shape, downy at bottom ; anthers oval ; stigma capitate ; 
berry globose, sitting on the calyx. — Stem caulescent; leaves 
mostly in pairs; flowers extra-axillary, solitary, or rather 
crowded. 
Atropa let halts . Deadly dwale . 
Stem herbaceous; leaves ovate, edge not cut. 
