. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. —SCROPTirL 331 p. viol4cea, Lindl. Fig. 490. Weaker and more diffuse: porolla purple or , tlie tube short and broad: leaves ovate or oval, nearly or quite sessile. Tlie garden petunias are mostly hybrids of the two species. o. DATtTRA. Jamesto\vn-weed or Jimson-weed. Very strong bushy herbs, with large, long-tubu- htr, short-lived flowers from the forks of the Itranehes: stigma 2-parted: fruit a globular usually prickly capsule, opening by 4 valves. D. Stramonium, Linn. Fig. 248. Annual, .'!-5 ft., the stem green: leaves
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. —SCROPTirL 331 p. viol4cea, Lindl. Fig. 490. Weaker and more diffuse: porolla purple or , tlie tube short and broad: leaves ovate or oval, nearly or quite sessile. Tlie garden petunias are mostly hybrids of the two species. o. DATtTRA. Jamesto\vn-weed or Jimson-weed. Very strong bushy herbs, with large, long-tubu- htr, short-lived flowers from the forks of the Itranehes: stigma 2-parted: fruit a globular usually prickly capsule, opening by 4 valves. D. Stramonium, Linn. Fig. 248. Annual, .'!-5 ft., the stem green: leaves ovate, sinuate or angled: corolla white. Tropics; com- mon weed. D. Tatula, Linn. Stem uiid coroHa jinrjilf. i;. NICOTIANA. Tall herbs, with large usually pubescent leaves: corolla funnelform or salverform, the tube usually long: stiirma not lobed: pod 2-4-valved, not very large, coiitaiiii-d within the persistent calyx. N. Tabacum, Linn. Tobticro. RoJtust annual, 4-i! ft., with very large ovate decurrent entire leaves and rose-purple pauided flowers. Troj). Anier. N. alita, Link & Otto (.V. nffiuis of gardens). Fig. 491. Slender but tall (2-4 ft.) jdant with clammy-puliescent herluige: leaves lanceolate or obovate, entire: flowers wliite, with very .^lender tube 'i-ti in. long, the limb uneipial. Brazil; common in >; Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York Macmillan
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