170 SOLANUM DULCAMARA. 
The names of Bitter sweet and Woody nighi- 
shade are the most frequent English appellations 
of this vegetable. The former of these is also ap- 
plied to the Celastrus scandens, a very different 
plant. The frequent changes which always take 
place in the application of yulgar names, renders 
a reliance on them unsafe, and indeed makes it 
useless to collect or preserve more than a few of 
the principal ones. 
The genus Solanum is remarkable for the 
great variety and almost opposite character which 
takes place among its species. The common Po- 
tatoe, the Egg plant, the Tomato, the Jerusalem 
cherry, and the Black nightshade, are all species 
of this multiform genus. The common character 
which binds them together, consists in a rotate 
corolla ; the anthers cohering, with a double open- 
ing at top; the berry two celled. The species 
Dulcamara is distinguished from others by its 
stem, which is shrubby ; unarmed and flexuous ; 
its leaves auriculated ; and its panicles resembling 
cymes. ; 
Class Pentandria.—Order Monogynia,—Natu- 
ral orders Luride, Linn. Solanew, Juss. § /+ ace 
_ The Bitter sweet is entitled to the character 
of a vine rather than shrub. The stem is woody, 
slender, climbing in large plants to the height of 
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