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BOTAKY. 
roTver, acute or acuminate, erect or spreading; scales ^Yantillg or more or less developoil ; capsule envel- 
oped in the corolla. — Quite varialile. See page 273. 
* * Sepals united ; ovary and capsule -with tlie walls thickened above, more or less conic, 
(rt.) Flowers subsessile, paniculate-gloraerate ; withered corolla capping the 1-2-seeded capsule. 
10. C. SUBIXCLUSA, Dur. & Ililg. Flowers 2-3" long, forming large clusters ; calyx deeply cleft, the 
lobes acutish, imbricate ; corolla-lobes ovate, acute, shorter than the slender tube ; scales oblong, deeply 
fringed ; styles slender ; ovary 2-pointed j capsule oval. — S. and Central California. 
(h.) Flowers pedicclled, in rather loose paniculate cymes, often becoming crowded; corolla-lobes 
acute or rarely obtuse, indexed ; styles unequal ; capsule enveloped in the corolla. 
11. C. DECOT?A, Chois. Flowers 1" long or more, white, often papillose; calyx-lobes ovate or lanceo- 
late, acute ; corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate ; scales large, broad-oval ; styles usually stout.— Variable. 
Florida and from Illinois to Texas, the Indian Territory, New Mexico and Sonora. 
13. C. ixFLKXA, Eng. Flowers 1" long, like the last but with deeper subcyliudric mostly 4-parted 
corollas, at last only capping the capsule; lobes erect; scales minute; stjles divaricate. — Virginia to 
Georgia ; Illinois to Arkansas, Kansas and the Upper Missouri. 
(c.) Inflorescence as in the last ; corolla-lobes obtnse, not incurved ; withered corolla surrounding 
the base of the capsule. 
13. C. Groxovii, Willd. Flowers 1^-1^" long ; corolla-tube deeply campanulate, lobes flat, spread- 
ing ; scales large, oval, much fringed.— Variable. Canada to Florida and west to Missouri, Arkansas and 
Texas. Var. (i) ccuta. Eng. With very short bifid or truncate appressed scales ; corolla capping the 
large oval capsule. — N. W. America. 
14. C. KOSTRATA, Shutt. Near the last; flowers 2-3" long, wider; scales rather small, deeply 
fringed ; ovary elongated, bottle-shaped ; capsule, with the elongated 2-pointed beak, 2^-3" long.- Mary- 
land to S. Carolina. 
* * * Sepals free, similar to the surrounding sterile bracts, imbricate ; ovary and capsule more or less 
conic, thickened and fleshy at the apex ; capsule capped with the corolla. 
(rt.) Flowers pedicelled, loosely panicled. 
15. C. ccsriDATA, Eng. Flowers about 2" long ; upper bracts and the sepals ovate or orbicular, cus- 
pidate or obtuse.— From Texas and New Mexico to the Platte. 
(h.) Flowers closely sessile, crowded in compact often continuous clusters. 
IG. C SQTJAMATA, Eng. Stems liliform, orange-yellow; clusters 2-12-flowered ; flowers 2^" long; 
the 2-5 membranous bracts broad-ovute, cuspidate, appressed ; sepals longer, more obtuse ; scales ovate, 
fimbriate ; styles capillary, asserted ; capsule ovate, apiculate, 1-2-seeded.— W. Texas. 
17. C. GLOMKRATA, Chois. Clusters in two parallel continuous spiial lines, 6-10" thick ; flowers 
2i^-3" long, often sterile ; bracts numerous, squarrosc ; corolla-lobes obtuse.— From Ohio to Kansas and 
southward to W. Texas ; mostly on Composike. 
18. C. COMPACTA, Juss. Mostly on shrubs; fruiting clusters often 1-2' in diameter; bracts (3-5) and 
sepals appressed, orlucuiar.— From N. New York to Georgia and Alabama, and the Var. adpressa west- 
ward to Missouri and Texas. 
^ 3. ilONOGYXELEA, Eng. Styles united nearly to the apex, (or entirely,) thick and compressed ; 
stiguKis capitate : anthers si ssile, (or nearly so ;) capsule regularly circumseissile, usually 2-.seeded.— 
Stems tluck. giowiiig on woody plants ; flowers sessile or short-pedicelled, bracteate, spicate-pani- 
cled ; capsule capped with the withered corolla. 
19. C. F.XALT VTA, Eng. Lo])es of the globose calyx nearly distinct, orbicular, concave, imbricate, 
verrucose in the middle, equaling the cylindric corolla-tube ; corolla-lobes orbicular, imbricate, much 
shorter than the tube, erect or subspreading; anthers cordate-orbicular ; scales 2-parted, dentate, short.- 
Flowers 2" long ; capsule 3-.V' long ; seeds 1^" long or more. W. Texas and Mexico. 
LYCIUM. 
The North Auicriean >peeie>^ as arranged by Dr. Gray in the Proc. Amer. Acad., Vol. VI, pp. 45-48, 
(1862.) with the addition of the more recent species. ' 
I. Flowers large ; corolla funnelform-tubular, 9-10" long, greenish : calyx loosely campanulate, 
o-clett at least to the nuddle, with .subfoliaceous spreading lobes ; anthers deciduously mucronate. 
Glabrous, 
