premise: the relations between town and gown are always sensitive
hypothesis: gown is best characterized as a kind or type of phytolaccaceae (or Phytolaccaceae, pokeweed family), defined as 'chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca, Agdestis, Ercilla, Rivina, Trichostigma' .