. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 547. Capsicum annuum. aa. Plants prickly. S. Melongena, Linn. Eggplant. Guinea squash. Fig. 288. Stout annual with large, ovate, somewhat angled pubescent leaves: flower large, purplish, the calyx prickly: fruit a very large purple or white berry (often weighing several pounds). India. 3. LYCOPERSICUM. Tomato. Differs from Solanum chiefly in having the anthers united at their tips by a membrane and opening by lengthwise slits. L. esculentum, Mill. Common tomato plant. Tall, hairy, strong-sme
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 547. Capsicum annuum. aa. Plants prickly. S. Melongena, Linn. Eggplant. Guinea squash. Fig. 288. Stout annual with large, ovate, somewhat angled pubescent leaves: flower large, purplish, the calyx prickly: fruit a very large purple or white berry (often weighing several pounds). India. 3. LYCOPERSICUM. Tomato. Differs from Solanum chiefly in having the anthers united at their tips by a membrane and opening by lengthwise slits. L. esculentum, Mill. Common tomato plant. Tall, hairy, strong-smelling herb, with pinnate leaves, the leaflets ovate and unequal-sided and of different sizes: flowers small, yellow, in short forked racemes: fruit a large red or yellow berry. South America. 4. CAPSICUM. Red Pepper. Erect, branchy, smooth herbs: stamens with slender filaments which are much longer than the separate anthers, the latter opening by lengthwise slits: fruit globular, long or irregular, firm. C. annuum, Linn. Common red pepper. Fig. 547. Annual or biennial, with ovate entire leaves: flowers white, with very short-toothed or trun- cate calyx: fruit very various in the cultivated varieties. Tropical America. 5. PETUNIA. Petunia. 548. Petunia nyclaginiflora. Clammy-hairy diffuse herbs: calyx-lobes leaf- like and much longer than the tube; corolla funnelform, showy, the stamens not projecting: fruit 2-loculed, capsular. South America. P- nyctaginiflora, Juss. White petunia. Fig. 548. Corolla white, very long- tubed: leaves oval-oblong, narrowed into a petiole. P. violacea. Lindl. Fig. 549. Weaker and more diffuse: corolla purple or rose, the tube short and broad: leaves ovate or oval, nearly or quite sessile. The gar- den petunias are mostly hybrids of the 2 species. 6. DATURA. Jamestown-weed or Jimson-weed. Very strong bushy herbs, with large, long-tubular, short-lived flowers from the forks of the branches: stigma 2-parted: fruit a globular usually prickly cap- sule,
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