POPULAR FLORA. 
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Morning-Glory. Ipomcea. 
1. Common M. Annual; stem hairy, the hairs bent downwards; leaves heart-shaped, entire; flowers 
3 to 5 on the peduncle; flowers purple or pink varying to white, opening early in the morning, 
ciosing in bright sunshine ; pod 3-celled. Cult. &c. I. purpurea. 
2 Wild M. (or Man-of-the-Eartii). Smooth ; root huge, perennial ; leaves heart-shaped, entire or 
some of them narrowed in the middle; flowers 1 to 5 on a peduncle, white with purple in the 
tube, opening in sunshine. Sandy banks. I. panduratus. 
68. NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Order SOLANACEiE. 
Herbs, or sometimes shrubs, with a colorless bitter or nauseous juice (often poisonous) ; 
alternate leaves ; and regular flowers, with 5 (or in cultivated plants sometimes 6 or 7) 
mostly equal stamens and one pistil. Ovary with 2 or more cells, in fruit becoming a 
many-seeded berry or pod. Corolla plaited in the bud, or valvaie, i. e. the lobes placed 
edge to edge. 
459 461 462 465 
458. Upper part of the corolla of Stramonium (Fig. 177) in bud. 459. Cross-section of the same, to show how it is plaited and folded. 
46i). Flower of Tobacco. 461. Its pod and calyx. 462. Same, with the upper part cut away 463. Flowers and berries of Bittersweet 
Nightshade. 464. Flower of Henbane. 465. Pod of the same, opening by a lid. 
Corolla wheel-shaped : stamens closely converging or united around the style (Fig. 
182, 183). Fruit a berry. 
Anthers longer than the very short filaments, and 
Connected with each other, opening lengthwise. Berry several-celled, (Ly coper sicum) * Tomato. 
Not grown together, opening at the top by two pores, ( Solarium ) Nightshade. 
Anthers shorter than the filaments, heart-shaped, separate, opening lengthwise. Berry 
pod-like, inflated, the pulp very pungent (Cayenne or Red Pepper), 
( Capsicum) *Capsioum. 
