182 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 



My sole object in the present communication being to vindi- 

 cate Mr. Hancock from the charges of error brought against 

 him, which 1 trust I have now done satisfactorily, I shall leave 

 the discussion, of controverted points to some future opportunity. 

 rtaiionr yiB s^svBsi ^n? tor h^^i Gentlemen, 

 «(wl Mm k { %mhd .n^R ff Your obedient servant, 



Joshua ALDER.biii. 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 19th August 1854. ^^ 



XX, — On the Genus hycium. By John Miers, Esq., - 



F.R.S., F.L.S. &c. >^ 



^Hiid (iiiib-ioJoi ,&im^jiio^ 'i -mi^iui^j^^ 



ii\ onnoWhiqim oitil 0<3^^ued from p. 141.] ! /. 'ha'k' 



2. jMesocope. Uoroiia infundibuliformis, limbi laciniis dimidiwn 

 tubi super antibus. £ed ejus longitudinem non excedentibus,'{x>, 



aiifliuiil,.^ A. Gerontoge^. 



•yWTj .WV\ * Stamina IcBvia. Sp. 39 ad 41. 



39. Lycium Barbarum, Linn, ex parte, non aliorum ; Dunal in 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 511, cum synonymiis variis ibi relatis. — In 

 Persia Australi, Scinde et Afghanistan. — v.s.in herb. HookT 

 Abouschir {Aucher Eloy, n. 5037). — Dalechi, distr. Abouschif^ 

 [Kotschy, n. 166).— Afghanistan {Griffiths, n. 670 et 672)'.1 



—-Scinde, Kurdigass (i)r. Stocks, n. 995). " V* ""'?' 



xylsa 9ilJ , 



This species was well distinguished by Linnaeus, though conni 

 founded by other botanists and horticulturalists with L. vulgare 

 and L. Europaum, from which it is marked by vei-y peculiar^' 

 characters. It is very spinose, with flexuose, knotty, crooked 

 branches, its splitting bark being of a glaucous whitish or brown- 

 ish hue; the nodes are large and very prominent, often woolly ; 

 the leaves, three to five in each axillary fascicle, are linear, obtuse, 

 spathulate at base, diminishing into a short slender petiole ; they 

 are 5 to 10 lines long and 1 to 1^ line broad; three to five 

 flowers spring out of each fascicle ; the peduncle is very slender, 

 5 lines long ; the campanular and somewhat scarious calyx is 

 very thin in texture, of a pale glaucous hue, is H line broad andj, 

 long, at first with five short minute teeth, but they become irre;-^^ 

 gularly cleft into one, two, or three longer fissures : the corollaj' 

 is thin in texture, funnel-shaped, the tube, contracted a littl^^j 

 above the base, being 3 lines long, and the five equal, smooth, 

 oblong segments of its border being 2 lines in length : the sta'- 

 mens inserted below the middle of the tube are quite smooth, 

 one being shorter, reaching the mouth, while the other four are 



