Chapter D: TATULA, L. (PURPLE T.) Mostly taller; stem purple; corolla pale

violet-purple_; prickles of the capsule nearly equal.--Waste grounds, in the Atlantic States. (Adv. from trop. Amer.)

8. NICOTIANA, Tourn. TOBACCO.

Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, 5-cleft. Corolla funnel-form or salver-form, usually with a long tube; the plaited border 5-lobed. Stigma capitate. Capsule 2-celled, 2--4-valved from the apex. Seeds minute.--Rank acrid-narcotic herbs, mostly clammy-pubescent, with ample entire leaves, and racemed or panicled flowers. (Named after _John Nicot_, who was thought to have introduced Tobacco (N. TABACUM, L.) into Europe.)

N. RUSTICA, L. (WILD TOBACCO.) Annual; leaves ovate, petioled; tube of the dull greenish-yellow corolla cylindrical, two thirds longer than the calyx, the lobes rounded.--Old fields, from N. Y. westward and southward; a relic of cultivation by the Indians. (Of unknown nativity.)

ORDER 75. SCROPHULARIACEAE. (FIGWORT FAMILY.)

_Chiefly herbs (rarely trees), with didynamous stamens (or perfect stamens often only 2, rarely 5) inserted on the tube of the 2-lipped or more or less irregular corolla, the lobes of which are imbricated in the bud; fruit a 2-celled and usually many-seeded capsule, with the placentae; in the axis; seeds anatropous, or amphitropous, with a small embryo in copious albumen._--Style single; stigma entire or 2-lobed. Leaves and inflorescence various; but the flowers not terminal in any genuine representatives of the order.--A large order of bitterish plants, some of them narcotic-poisonous.