Mr. J. Miers on the genus Lycium. 1^3 



— In Prov. Argentinorum Australioribus. — v. s. in herb. Hook. 



(Tweedie.) 



This plant was found by Tweedie in the southern portion of 

 the province of Buenos Ayres, always called by him Patagonia. 

 It is remarkable for its small cricoid leaves_, which are H to 2^ 

 lines long and 1 to 2 lines broad ; the peduncle measures 2 lines, 

 the calyx 1 line, the tube of the corolla 3 lines, the segments of 

 its border 2 lines, all being quite smooth except the five barbate 

 tufts that alternate with the hairy pellets of the stamens*. 



57. Lycium Martii, Sendtn. Floi'! Bras. fasc. 6. Sol. 154; Dunal 

 in DC. Prodr. xiii. 512. — Brasilia (in Prov. Bahia) ad fluv. 

 S. Francisco prope Joazeiro. ^ 



58. Lycium Carolinianum, Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. 95; Walt. Fl. 

 Carol. 84; Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. i. 97; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 

 xiii. 513. L. salsum, Bart?'. Trav. 59. nee R. ^ P. L. qua- 

 drifidum, Moq. et Sesse, Ic. Mex. Coll. Cand. t. 914. Panzera 

 Caroliniana, Gmel, Syst. i. 247 ; — fruticosum, inerme, glaber- 

 rimum, ramulis rectis, striatis, rarius spinosis ; foliis alternis, 

 rarius fasciculatis, spathulato-lanceolatis vel linearibus, acutis 

 aut obtusiusculis, crassis, eveniis ; floribus solitariis, folio bre- 

 vioribus, tetrameris, pedunculo elongato, calyce campanulato, 

 grosse 4-dentato, corolla cserulescente, tubo infundibuliformi, 



.< imo crassiore, supra basin constricto, limbi laciniis tubo bre- 

 vioribus, staminibus 4 subsequalibus, exsertis, filamentis longe 

 subtus medium tubi insertis, imo geniculatis et fascicula ob- 

 longa pilorum dense barbatis : bacca cerasi parvi magnitudine, 

 rubra. — America Septentrionali. — v. .9. in Jierb. Hook. (Gal- 

 veston Bay, Tenessee) Drummond. (Rio Brazos, Texaa) Drum- 

 mond. (New Orleans) Drummondj n. 234. (Circa Laredo) 

 Berlandier (n. 1502 et 242). In herb. Lindley (Texas) Drum- 

 mond. 



This well-known species, long since established upon very di- 

 stinct characters, appears to differ in no essential respect from 

 the plant described by Mo9ino and Sesse, and which may safely 

 be considered as identical with it, especially as I find the descrip- 

 tion of its fruit corresponds with the specimen above noticed 

 from New Orleans. The leaves are generally single and alter- 

 nate, from 7 to 18 lines long and 1^ to 2| lines broad, narrow- 

 ing at the base into a short channelled petiole : the peduncle is 

 slender below, thicker at its apex,. and is from 5 to 8 lines long; 

 the cup-shaped calyx is nearly 2 lines in length, with four short 

 !»7l«ne rf'rfW' iirst\r, Ar.vi ■<■ •=. ij'^ 

 * This plant with floral details is shown {he. cit.) in plate 71 E. 

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