CLASSIFICATION OF ANGIOSPERMS. 



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/. SOLANACE;E OR POTATO FAMILY.- -The family 



includes herbs, shrubs, trees, and vines, which are most abundant 

 in tropical regions. The leaves are alternate and vary from entire 



FIG. 376. Atropa Belladonna showing the alternate, petiolate, ovate, entire leaves, 

 in the axils of which are the solitray fruits or flowers with large, leafy bracts. 



to dissected. The flowers are mostly regular, except in hyos- 

 cyamus. The stamens are adnate to the corolla tube, the anthers 

 connivent, and the pollen-sacs apically or longitudinally dehiscent. 

 The fruit is a berry or capsule in which the sepals mostly persist 



