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]. Genus LY'-CI-UIVl. -- Shru1)l)y, sometimes spiny plants, with 

 alternate and entire small leaves, and mostly axillary, small flowers. 



Ly'-ci-um vul-ga'-re Dun. Matrimony Vine. — Shrub wnth long re- 

 curved-drooping branches ; corolla short funnel-form, greenish 

 purple. 



'1. Genus SO-LA'-NUM. — Corolla wheel-shaped, stamens exserted, 

 filaments very short, anthers converging. A large genus, mostly of 

 warm climates, including the Potato (S. tuberosum), the Egg-plant 

 [S. '^ileIongcna)\ closely related is the Tomato [Ly coper sic um es- 

 culentuui). 



So-la'-num dul-ca-ma'-ra L. Bittersweet. — Climbing and twining, 

 not pricklv; flowers purple or blue in small cymes; leaves ovate- 

 cordate, thtr upper halberd-shaped or with two lobes or leaflets 

 at base. 



So-la'-num car-o-li-nen'-se I,. Horse-Nettle. — Hirsute or roughish- 

 pubescent with 4-8-rayed hairs; prickles mostly numerous, yellowish, 

 stout; leaves oblong or ovate, toothed, lobed or pinnatifid; flowers in 

 racemes, larger. 



LXVIII. Order SCROPH -U - LAR - 1 - A' CE -/E. FIGWORT FAMILY.— 



Herbaceous; flowers perfect; corolla labiate or nearly regular; sta- 

 mens didynamous or diandrous; ovary '2-celled. 



Leaves opposite (a). 



Leaves alternate bi. 



a. Corolla 2-cleft, the short tube saccate above Colli iisia. 1 



a. Corolla tubular, sterile stamens about as long as the rest Pi'nlsh'inoii. li 



a. Corolla wheel-shaped, almost regular, 4-parted »l 'cronica. :!^ 



b. Calyx tubular, flattened, colored, concealing the corolla-tube. .CaiVzy/^ya. 4i 



b. Calyjc split in front, oblique, capsule flat Pcdicularis. ■> 



1. Genus COL-LIN'-SI-A. — Corolla declined, deeply "i-lipped, the 

 upper lip 2-cleft, the lower 3-cleft, its middle lobe sac-like, enclosing 

 the 4 declined stamens and style; flowers partly colored, in umbel-like 

 clusters. 



Col-lin'-si-a ver'-na Nutt. Innocence. — Corolla blue and white, twice 

 the length of the calyx. 



2. Genus PENT-STE'-MON. — Corolla tubular and more or less in- 

 flated or bell-shaped, more or less 2-lipped ; flowers mostly showy, thyr- 

 soid or racemose-panicled. 



