SOLANACEJE. 299 NICANDRA. 



3. LY'CIUM. 



Calyx 2 — 5-cleft, short ; corolla tubular, limb mostly 5-lob- 

 ed, spreading, orifice closed by the beard of the filaments ; 

 stamens 4 — 5, exserted; berry 2-celled ; seeds several, reni- 

 form. 



Named from Lycia, the native country of the original species. Shrubs, 

 the branches ending with a spinose point, and often having axillary spines. 

 Fls. axillary, solitary or in pairs. 



L. Ba RBARUM. — iSicm angular ; branches long, pendulous, somewhat 

 spiny; hares often fasciculate, lanceolate; c«/i/x mostly 3-cleft. Native of 

 Barbary, cultivated and nearly naturalized. It is a shrub, with long, slender, 

 trailing or hanging branches which overspread walls, &c., with a thick, 

 tangled mass. Leaves smooth, 3 times as long as wide, often broadest above, 

 acute or obtuse, tapering into a petiole. Flowers greenish purple. Berries 

 orange-red. June — Sept. Matrimony- Vine. 



4. PHYSA'LFS. 



Calyx S-cleft, persistent, at length ventricose ; corolla cam- 

 panulate-rotate, tube very short, limb obscurely 5-lobed; 

 stamens 5, connivent; berry globose, enclosed within the 

 inflated, o-angled, colored calyx. 



Gr. (pva-ii, a bladder; the inflated calyx enclosing the fruit. Herbs (rarely 

 shrubby), with axillary or supra-axillary flowers. 



1. P. VI sees A. Aik. P. viscosa,obscura, pubescens, Penns5'Jvani'ca, &c., of authors. 



Pubescent; stem decumbent, herbaceous ; hranches somewhzt dichotomous 

 and angular; leaves solitary or in pairs, ovate, more or less cordate, repand- 

 toothed or entire; floicers solitary, axillary, pendulous. Dry fields, road- 

 sides, &c. Stem more or less decumbent, about a foot high, often viscid as 

 well as the whole plant. Leaves very variable in the same plant, 1 — 4 inches 

 high of ^, I, or even of equal breadth, acute, acuminate, or often obtuse at the 

 apex, often abrupt at base, sometimes nearly or quite entire on the margin, 

 twice as long as the petioles ; when in pairs one of them is much suialler. 

 Corolla twice as long as the calyx, greenish yellow, with 5 brownish spots at 

 base inside. Fruit yellow or orange-colored, not unpleasant to the taste, 

 enclosed in the enlarged, inflated, angular calyx. July. 



Yelloio Henbane. Grovnil Cherry. 



/3. Pcnnsylvanica; haves in pairs, ovate, abruptly narrowed into the petiole, 

 rather acuminate, entire, often unequal at base, nearly smooth. 



2. P. AlKEKE'NGI. — &Yc7H somewhat branching below ; /eores in pairs, 

 entire, acute ; c«/(/x of the fruit red or reddish. Native of S. Europe, cul- 

 tivated for ornament. Plant about a foot high. Flowers white. Berries 

 acid and somewhat bitter. H'inter Cherry. 



5. NICA'NDRA. 



Calyx 5-cleft, 5-angled, the angles compressed, sepals 

 sagittate; corolla campanulate; stamens 5, incurved; berry 

 3 — 5-celled, enveloped in the persistent calyx. 



Named by Adanson in honor of Nicander, a Greek physician. 



