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LX. SOLAN ACEAJ. 
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rare. Cavse of Gowrie in Scotland. Near Balbriggan, Ireland. $. 
6, 7. — Distinguished readily from the last hy its more or less shining 
and brighter-coloured leaves, free from pubescence, and their different 
figure. Root-leaves ovato-lanceolate, on very long foot-stalks. Achenes 
flat in front, without a prominent margin. 
Ord. LX. SOLANACEiE Juss. 
Calyx 5- rarely 4-partite or -cleft, persistent. Corolla mono- 
petalous, hypogynous, its /imio-cleft, equal orsomewhat unequal, 
deciduous, with a plicate or imbricative sestivation. Stamens in- 
serted into the corolla, alternate with its segments and equalling 
them in number. Ovary 1- 2- or 4-celled. Style 1. Stigma 
obtuse, rarely lobed. Pericarp 1- 2- or 4-celled; either a 
capsule with a parallel double dissepiment, or a berry with the 
receptacles united to the dissepiments. Seeds numerous, peri- 
tropal. Embryo included in a fleshy albumen , often out of the 
axis. Radicle inferior, turned away from the more or less lateral 
hilum. — Herbs or shrubs. Leaves often in pairs or fascicled , 
without stipules, floral ones sometimes opposite. Inflorescence 
usually extra-axillary ( lateral with respect to the petiole). Lin- 
naeus called this family Luriclce , and fancied that their lurid 
appearance indicated the dangerous properties common to many 
of them. They are acrid and narcotic, as the deadly night- 
shade, mandragora, henbane, thorn-apple, tobacco, &c.; whilst 
the root of one, when cooked, affords a most important article 
of food, the potato ; and the fruits of the love-apple, winter- 
cherry, and capsicum are condiments. 
1. Datura. Cal. tubular. Caps. 4-valved. 
2. Hyoscyamus. Cal. tubular. Caps, opening transversely with a lid. 
3. Atropa. Cal. 5-partite. Anthers distant. Berry 2-celled. 
4. Solan um. ;Cal. deeply divided or campanulate. Anthers connivent, 
opening by pores. Berry 2-celled. 
* Margins of the lobes of the corolla imbricated in (Estivation. 
Atrofea:. 
1. Datura Linn. Thorn-apple. 
Cal. tubular, deciduous. Cor. funnel-shaped, angular, 
plaited. Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Stigma 2-lobed. 
Capsule half-4-celled, 4-valved. — Named from its Arabic ap- 
pellation tutorah (Forskal). In some parts of the East Indies 
it is called daturo. 
1. D. * Stramonium L. ( common T.) ; herbaceous, leaves 
ovate angulato-sinuate glabrous, fruit ovate erect clothed with 
numerous nearly equal spines. E. B. t. 1288. 
Waste ground in England. ©. 7 — 10. — The narcotic qualities 
of this plant are well known. The capsule is 2-celled ; but each cell 
is again divided below by a dissepiment, so that the lower portion has 
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