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species it is indeed in habit so closely allied, that superficial observers, 



seeing these plants growing promiscuously, will hardly become aware 



of their distinction. Yet the differences between them are, through all 



stages of deyelopment in both plants, so clear and so decisive, that I 



do not hesitate to add to the enormous number of more than 900 



Solana^ hitherto described, the Gunyang, as new under the name of 

 8, vescum. 



It differs from S, aviculare in its green but not dark purplish twigs, 

 its sessile, decurrent, somewhat scabrous, and less shining leaves, whilst 

 those of >S', aviculare are distinctly petiolate, and, consequently, not de- 

 current along the twigs ; in its more tender corollas, which are very 

 slightly, but not to the middle, five-cleft, and hardly ever outside 

 whitish, its thinner styles and filaments, the latter not shorter than the 

 anthers, its more acute teeth of the calyx, its almost spherical, trans- 

 parently green berries with large seeds : the berries of S. aviculare are, 

 on the contrary, at all times exactly egg-shaped, of an orange colour, 

 and with seeds but half as large as in S. vescum. The natives of Gipps' 

 Land, moreover, reject the berries of the former on account of their 

 disagreeable taste. To the Peruvian S. reclinatum the affinity of our 

 plant appears yet greater ; yet in the careful description which Dunal 

 has furnished of it in De Cand- Prodr. xiii. p. 68, neither the character- 

 istic wings of the twigs are attributed to the Peruvian plant, nor do 

 his remarks on the corolla, which he calls half-five-cleft, on the shorter 

 pedicels and smaller calyx agree with S. vescum. A close approach 

 between both is, however, manifested in the length and structure of 

 the filaments, as also in the shape and colour of the berries. From 

 S. senecioides and muUifidum, likewise inhabitants of Peru, our species 

 differs already in the division of the leaves, but bears resemblance to 

 them in the winged twigs. 



The Gunyang has been found, as far as I know, only yet in Gipps' 

 Land, where it occurs on sand-ridges around Lake Wellington ; on the 

 coast towards the mouth of the Snowy Eiver ; on grassy hills at the 

 Tambo, the Nicholson's River, and Clifton's Morass; on the rich, shady 

 banks of the Latrobe River, and near the Buchan River. The occur- 

 rence of the plant in such varied locaUties proves how easily it may be 

 cultivated in any soil. It flowers during the spring, and ripens iti 

 fruits towards the end of the summer. The berries only lose their 

 unpleasant acridity after they have dropped in full maturity from the 



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