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DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
spreading ; filaments hairy, berries globular, black. Form of 
flower very much like the former, but smaller. The herb, at 
any time. 
Solanum Carolinense, L. Horse-Nettle. A prickly rough her- 
baceous perennial, hirsute or roughish-pubescent; hairs stel- 
late with 4-8-rayed hairs; prickles stout, yellowish; leaves 
oblong or ovate, obtusely sinuate-tootlied or lobed, or sinuate- 
pinuatifid ; racemes simple, soon lateral ; calyx-lobes acumi- 
nate; berries about 6" broad. Waste places, everywhere. 
FI. May- July. Collect the berries. 
Datura Stramonium, L. Thorn Apple. Annual, glabrous; 
leaves ovate, sinuate-toothed or angled ; stem green. Calyx 
prismatic, 5-toothed ; separating transversely across the base 
in fruit, the upper part tailing away. Corolla funnel-form, 
with a large and spreading, 5-10 toothed plaited border. 
Stigma 2-lipped. Capsule globular, prickly, 4-valved, 2- 
celled, with two 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 capsule is 4-celled ex- 
cept near the top, the placentae as if on the middle of the 
false partition. Seeds large, flat. A well-known foetid, 
poisonous weed. Seeds and foliage are used. FI. June-Sep- 
tember. 
Datura Tatula, L. Purple Thorn Apple. Jamestown weed. 
In all parts very near like the former, but taller ; stem purple; 
corolla pale violet-purple; prickles of the capsule nearly 
equal. Waste grounds, with the former, collected in the 
same way. Most abundant. 
SCROPHULARIACEiE. (Figwort Family.) 
Verbascum Thapsus, L. Commo.n Mullein. A tall and robust 
biennnial herb with alternate leaves, densely woolly through- 
out; stem tall and stout, winged by the decurrent bases of 
the oblong acute leaves. Calyx 5-parted, corolla 5-lobed, 
open or concave, wheel-shaped ; the lobes broad and rounded, 
a little unequal. Stamens 5; lower filaments usually beard- 
