. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. 128 THE INDIANA WEED BOOK. ovate or hastate pointed leaves, blue wheel-shaped flowers and oval red berries. It is also said to be poisonous and should be kept down in the same manner. Another "bitter-sweet" (Celastrus scandens L.) is a handsome wild twining vine of the Wahoo Family, which is ornamental and not injurious. 04. Datura stkamonium L. Jimson-weed. Thorn Apple. Devil's Apple. (A. I. 1.) Stem green, stout, widely branched, 1-5 feet high; leaves thin, ovate, scallop-toothed, pointed, 3-S inches long. Flowers large, solitary, erect, short-stalke
. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. 128 THE INDIANA WEED BOOK. ovate or hastate pointed leaves, blue wheel-shaped flowers and oval red berries. It is also said to be poisonous and should be kept down in the same manner. Another "bitter-sweet" (Celastrus scandens L.) is a handsome wild twining vine of the Wahoo Family, which is ornamental and not injurious. 04. Datura stkamonium L. Jimson-weed. Thorn Apple. Devil's Apple. (A. I. 1.) Stem green, stout, widely branched, 1-5 feet high; leaves thin, ovate, scallop-toothed, pointed, 3-S inches long. Flowers large, solitary, erect, short-stalked; corolla white, funnel-form, 3-4 inches long; calyx tubular, i the length of corolla. Capsule dry, egg-shaped, about 2 inches long, densely prickly, the lower, prickles shorter. Seeds black, kidney-form, wrinkled and finely pitted, long. (Fig. 92.) A common, very ill-smelling, coarse and homely weed, occurring in rich soil about barnyards, sites of old strawstaeks and dwellings, manure heaps, etc. June-Sept. ( An- other species, the purple jimson or purple thorn-apple (D. tatula L.), stem purple, more slender and usually taller, corolla violet or purplish, its tube nearly white, and prickles of cap- sule all long, occurs with it or in similar places and is equally common and stinking. The first named came originally from Asia and the purple species from Central America. The name "jimson-weed" is a corruption of Jamestown weed and was given both because they first appeared in this country about Jamestown, Vir- ginia. Both species are powerfully- narcotic and poisonous and equally obnoxious and unsightly weeds which every farmer possessing the instinct pulling or. Fig. 92. o, flowering spray; 6, fruiting capsule* ""rChr (After Chcsnut.) of neatness should keep from his premises. Remedies: cutting before the seed matures; cultivation. Children are frequently poisoned by eating the leaves or seeds or sucking the flowers, and cattle are known to have bee
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