184 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 



'twisted and interlaced branches and small leaves, and has evi- 

 '"dently grown in an exposed and arid situation; while the latter 

 has long, slender, virgate branches, and abundant foliage of much 

 larger leaves, and was apparently produced in a damp and sheltered 

 places, favourable to its more luxuriant growth. Dr. Stocks' 

 f 'Specimens present more the aspect of L. Barbai'um, but are 

 ,r distinguished by their much shorter peduncles, more fleshy 

 A leaves, and a generally more tartareous appearance ; the very 

 (v ilexuose divaricating branches are covered with a splitting bark 

 ji of a cretaceous hue, with fascicles of few leaves (three to six) 

 ^i proceeding out of the knotty base of the axillary spines: the 

 ,g leaves are linear, obtuse at the summit, tapering below into a 

 In short petiole; they are remarkably thick and fleshy, of a pale 

 jfci glaucous hue, 4 to 9 lines long and ^ line broad : one to five 

 bii flowers grow out of each fascicle ; the peduncle is 2 lines long ; 

 19 the pale glaucous, tubular calyx, often unequally cleft, is 1| line 

 ^ifjlong: the tube of the corolla, greatly contracted in its lower 

 KO moiety and funnel-shaped above, is 3 lines long, the oblong 

 ^Si segments of its border being 2 lines in length ; it is quite smooth, 

 01c excepting a little appearance of pubescence about the insertion of 

 ^gi-the stamens, which are unequal in length, the filaments being 

 -lE.quite smooth, one not extending beyond the mouth of the tube, 

 -rrr two of the length of the segments, and the other intermediate ; 

 ^fiv; the style is the length of the longer stamens. It will be seen 

 jli how little this structure dififers from L. Barbarum, and it might 

 .^cvbe almost considered as a mere variety of that species, from 

 81 which it is easily distinguishable by the characters above enu- 

 merated* .(^ai9 

 1^ i, ** Staminibus imo hirsutis. 



ioe^^. lyycium Ruthenicum, Murray, Comm. Gott. 1779, p. 2. 

 gniiirrftab. 2; Willd. Sp. i. 1058; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. 514, 

 891? -'^cum aliis synon. (excl. L. Tataricum). — In Siberia et Russia 

 I9;tj Australi. — v. s. in herb. Hook. (Mare Caspico) ex herb, Acad, 

 m enoiFetropol. — (Iberia orientali) JV. Busen; — et in herb, Lindlei/, 

 3m0^ sHort. Chisw. cult, sub nom. L. carnosum. 



^J^ A plant completely with the habit of L. Barbarum, but dif- 

 fering in the structure of its flowers. The stems are smooth, 

 ^ ' very pale, flexuose, with spinose spreading branchlets; the axils 

 ^ ^ are nodose ; the leaves, two to four in each axillary fascicle, 8 to 

 ; 15 lines long and 1 to 2| lines broad, are quite smooth and 

 '^^ ' fleshy : several flowers spring out of each fascicle ; the peduncles 

 "are 2-2| lines long, the calyx 1 line, the tube of the corolla 

 *^^^' 3 lines, the segments of the border 2 lines; the filaments are 



* This plant with its floral analysis is drawn {loc. cit.) in plate 69 F. 



