Class V. Order I. 53 



A fine flowering shrub, very common among the brushwood 

 in low land. The small branches and peduncles are commonly 

 more or less bristly. Leaves crowded, lanceolate-ovate, slightly 

 toothed, hairy on the midrib and margin. Flowers in terminal, 

 umbel-like corymbs. Corollas funnel shaped, varying in col- 

 our, but commonly white, hairy and glutinous on the outside. 

 June, July. 



Several varieties occur in the colour of the leaves, parts of 

 the flower and small branches. 



63. SOLANUM. 

 SOLANUM DULCAMARA. L. Bitter sweet, Woody nightshade. 



Stem shrubby, flexuous, without thorns ; upper 

 leaves hastate ; clusters cymose. Sm. 



Stem woody, climbing upon fences and bushes. Low- 

 er leaves heart shaped, entire ; upper ones ovate, furnished with 

 two ears at the base giving them a hastate form. Clusters on 

 the sides and ends of the stem, on branching and spreading 

 stalks, drooping. Flowers with five acute, spreading or reflex - 

 ed, purple segments. Anthers forming a yellow tube project- 

 ing from the flower. Berries oval, bright reel. This plant is 

 common in low grounds, by the side of brooks, Sec. As a me- 

 dicinal article it holds a place in most dispensatories. July. 



SOLANUM NIGRUM. L. Black nightshade. 



Stem herbaceous, without thorns. Leaves 

 ovate, bluntly toothed and waved. Umbels lateral, 

 drooping. Sm, 



Much more ordinary in its appearance than the last. Stein 

 erect branching, angular and sometimes winged. Leaves ovate 

 alternate. The umbels come out from the sides of the stem, 

 remote from the leaves. They consist of drooping white flow- 

 ers, with yellow anthers.. Berries round, black. This variety 



