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SOLANACE^. 



[part I. 



at the base of each lobe of the corolla: the 

 berry also is yellow. This species is called 

 Cape Gooseberry, because it is cultivated as a 

 fruit at the Cape of Good Hope. 



The Deadly Nightshade {Atropa Belladonna) 

 .^ differs widely from 



/ '^ ^ ^^^ ^^^ preceding 

 genera in having 

 a bell-shaped co- 

 rolla, (see a in Jig, 

 69,) and in the an- 

 thers {h) not lying 

 close together. It 

 has, however, aper- 

 manent calyx and 

 a two-celled berry, 

 like the rest. 



The Barbary 

 Box-thorn, or Duke 

 of Argyle's Tea- 

 tree, {Lycium harhariim) has a somewhat rotate 

 corolla, with a five-cleft limb, with the stamens 

 inserted between the segments in the same man- 

 ner as shown in the flower of the Atropa Bella- 

 donna^ represented cut open at h vol fig. 69, The 

 filaments are hairy at the base, and the anthers 

 are near together, but do not form a cone as in 

 Solanum. The berry is two-celled, and the 

 calyx remains on when it is ripe, as in all the 



Fig. 69. — Deadly Nightshade 

 (Atropa Belladonna). 



