SOLANACEAE. 



Vol. III. 



i. Lycopersicon Lycopersicon (L.) 



k.n-t. Tomato. Love Apple. 



Cherry Tomato. Fig. 372I i. 



Solatium Lycopersicum L. Sp. PI. 185. 1753. 

 L. esculentum Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8. 1768. 

 Lycopersicum Lycopersicum ECarst. Deutsch. Fl. 



966. 1SS0-83. 



Viscid-pubescent, mucli branched, i-3 

 high, the branches spreading. Leaves peti- 

 oled, pinnately divided, 6-18' long, the seg- 

 ments stalked, the larger 7-9, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, mostly acute, dentate, lobed or 

 again divided, 2'-4' long, with several or 

 numerous smaller, sometimes very small ones 

 interspersed; clusters several-flowered; pe- 

 duncles 1 '-3' long; flowers s"-8" broad ; calyx- 

 segments about equalling the corolla; berry 

 the well-known tomato or love-apple. 



Escaped from cultivation and occasionally 

 spontaneous from New York and Pennsylvania 

 southward. Jews' ear. June-Sept. 



8. LYCIUM L. Sp. PI. 191. 1753. 



Shrubs, or woody vines, often spiny, with small alternate entire leaves, commonly with 

 smaller ones fascicled in their axils, and white greenish or purple, axillary or terminal, soli- 

 tary or clustered flowers. Calyx campanulate, 3-5-lobed or -toothed, not enlarged in fruit, 

 persistent at the base of the berry. Corolla funnelform, salverform, or campanulate, the tube 

 short or slender, the limb 5-Iobed (rarely 4-lobed), the lobes obtuse. Stamens 5 (rarely 4), 

 exserted, or included; filaments filiform, sometimes dilated at the base; anther-sacs longi- 

 tudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Berry glo- 

 bose, ovoid, or oblong. [Named from the country Lycia.] 



About 75 species, widely distributed in temperate and warm regions. Besides the following, 

 introduced from Europe, some 17 native species occur in the western parts of North America. Type 

 species: Lycium afreum L. 



1. Lycium halimifolium Mill. Matrimony Vine. Box-thorn. 



Lycium halimifolium Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 6. 1768. 



Lycium Barbarum var. vulgare Ait. f. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 



2:3. 181 1. 



Lycium vulgare Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13: Part 1, 509. 1852. 



Glabrous, spiny or unarmed ; stems slender, climb- 

 ing or trailing, branched, 6-25 long, the branches 

 somewhat angled, the spines, when present, slender, 

 about i' long. Leaves lanceolate, oblong, or spatu- 

 late, acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed into short 

 petioles, firm, i'-iY long, 2"-4" wide; flowers 2-5 

 together in the axils, or solitary; peduncles filiform, 

 spreading. 6"-i2" long; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, or 

 obtuse, 1 J" long; corolla funnelform, purplish chang- 

 ing to greenish, 4"-6" broad, its lobes ovate-oblong; 

 stamens slightly exserted ; berry oval, orange-red. 



In thickets and waste places, escaped from gardens, 

 Ontario to Virginia, Minnesota and Kansas. Introduced 

 from Europe. Bastard jessamine. Jasmine. Jackson-vine. 

 May-Aug. 



9. HYOSCYAMUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 179. 1753. 

 Erect coarse viscid-pubescent narcotic annual biennial or perennial herbs, with alternate 

 mostly lobed or pinnatifid leaves, and large nearly regular flowers, the lower solitary in the 

 axils, the upper in a more or less i-sided spike or raceme. Calyx urn-shaped or narrowly 

 campanulate. 5-cleft, striate,_ enlarged and enclosing the capsule in fruit. Corolla funnel- 

 form, the limb somewhat oblique. 5-cleft, the lobes more or less unequal, spreading. Stamens 

 declined, mostly exserted; filaments filiform; anthers oblong or ovate, their sacs longitudi- 



