Lycium. SOLANACE.E. 237 



inches long ; berry reddish. Fl. i. 149 ; Ell. 1. c. ; Dunal in DC. 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c. P. pumila, 

 Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, vii. 193. P. Pennsi/lcanica, Gray, Man. ed. 5, 382, in 

 part, not Linn. 1 P. Elliotti, Kunze in Linn. xx. 33. Dry open ground and bottoms, Lake 

 Winnipeg to Florida and Texas, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. Calyx-lobes vary- 

 ing from triangular-lanceolate to ovate-triangular ; fruiting calyx pyramidal-ovate, large. 



Var. Isevigata, Gray, 1. c. Glabrous or almost so throughout, or with some ex- 

 tremely short and pointed appressed rigid hairs on young parts, calyx, &c., or on the mar- 

 gins of the leaves : petioles commonly longer. P. longifolia, Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. 

 Soc. 1. c. P. jiit/iii/a ? var. Sonone, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 1. c. Nebraska to Texas, New 

 Mexico and Arizona. 



Var. hirta, Gray, 1. c. A remarkable and ambiguous form, approaching P. mollis, 

 var. cinemscens ; much of the hirsute pubescence of the leaves being 2-3-forked, as also 

 are some of the villous-hispid abundant hairs of the stem. P. Pennsylvania*, var., Gray in 

 E. Hall's list, Coll. Tex. no. 501. Wet woods, Houston, Texas, Drummond, E. Hall. 

 Lawrence, Kansas, J. H. Carndh. 



8. MARGARANTHUS, Schlecht. (Composed of paQ-yoQW, a pearl, and 

 ^, flower, from a fancied resemblance of the corolla.) Resembles an annual 



Physalls on a small scale, except in the globular (livid or violet-tinged) corolla ; 

 the small berry wholly included iu the globular and vesicular fruiting calyx, 

 rather dry, 20-30-seeded. Single species. 



M. solanacaus, Sclllecht. Nearly glabrous slender annual, a span to two feet high, 

 erect, divergently branched : leaves membranaceous, ovate and ovate-lanceolate, entire or 

 somewhat repand, occasionally 1-2-toothed, an inch or two long, slender-petioled : pedicels 

 short, recurving: corolla barely 2 lines and globular-conical fruiting calyx 4 to 6 lines long. 

 Ind. Sem. Hort. Hal. 1838, & Hort. Hal. Ic. i. t. 1 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 154. M. 

 tennis, Miers, 111. ii. 74, t. 57, with more acute or acuminate leaves. Southern and western 

 borders of Texas (Berlandier, referred to Phi/salis divaricata by Dunal in DC. Prodr. 1. c. 

 414) and New Mexico, Wriyht, Bigdow. (Mex.) 



9. NICANDRA, Adans. APPLE-OF-PEUU. (Nicander of Colophon.) 

 Single species, sparingly naturalized, from gardens : fl. summer. 



N. PHYSALOIDES, Gajrtn. Glabrous annual, 3 or 4 feet high, with the habit of an overgrown 

 Phi/salis, and very smooth Stramonium-like leaves laciniate- or sinuate-lobed : pedicels 

 solitary, recurved : flower rather showy : corolla blue or bluish (an inch long and with a 

 broad nearly entire limb): fruiting calyx over an inch long: included fruit so dry and 

 thin-walled as to appear capsular. Fruct. ii. 237, t. 131; Miers, 111. ii. t. 43. Atropa pluj- 

 saloides, L. ; Jacq. Obs. t. 98. Waste grounds near dwellings and old gardens. (Peru, and 

 now dispersed through warm regions.) 



10. LYCIUM, L. (Lycia, the country of the earliest-known species.) 

 Shrubby plants (of warm-temperate and dry tropical regions), often spinose ; the 

 entire and usually narrow leaves commonly fascicled in the axils, often veinless. 

 Flowers from greenish or white to purple, on solitary or fascicled terminal or 

 axillary pedicels, in spring or summer. -- Miers, 111. S. Am. PL ii. 88 ; Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. v. 45, vii. 388, & viii. 292. 



* Introduced from Old World, sparingly escaped from cultivation. 



L. VULGARE, Dunal. (MATRIMONY-VINE. BOX-THORN.) Tall, the long and slender 

 branches recurving or somewhat climbing, glabrous : spines few or none : leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate with a tapering base or somewhat spatulate : peduncles slender : corolla short- 

 funnelform, dull greenish-purple; the style and slender filaments equalling its lobes : berry 

 oval, orange-red. L. Barbarum, L., in part. Escaped into waste grounds and thickets in 

 Penn., &c. (Mediterranean region.) 



