MINT FAMILY 753 



villous; teeth lanceolate; corolla pink or rose-colored, rarely white, pubescent. 

 Wet places: B.C. — Ida. — Calif. SubmonL Je-Au. 



3. M. occidentalis R^'db. Stem 3-6 dm. high; leaf-blades ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, short-acuminate, strongly serrate, 4-8 cm. long, minutely pubescent 

 on both sides or in age glabrate; calyx about 3 mm. long, pilose; teeth lanceolnte, 

 acute or acuminate, longer than broad; corolla white or pink, its lobes oblong, 

 obtuse. Wet places: Wash. — ^Alta. — Ida. Submont. Jl-Au. 



4. M. glabrior (Hook.) Rydb. Stem 3-G dm. luMih, glabrate or nunutcly 

 puberulent on the angles; leaf-blades ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, acute, sernite, 

 glabrous or nearly so; calyx 3 mm. long, finely pubescent; lobes triangular- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, slightly longer than broad; corolla narrowly campanulate, 

 4 mm. long. M, cafiadcnsis glabrata Benth, Wet places: Me. — Pa.— Colo. — 

 Mont. Plain — SubmonL Jl-Au. 



5. M. Penardi (Briq.) Rydb. Stem 2-4 dm. high, short-pubescent especially 

 on the angles; leaf -blades ovate-elliiitic or ovate-lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, serrate, 

 acute; calyx about 3 mm. long, softly pilose; teeth lanceolate, acute; corolla 

 usually pink, 4 mm. long. Wet places, among bushes: Neb.— X.M.— Utah— 

 B.C. — Mack. Submonf, Je-Au. 



6. M, rubella Rydb. Stem 1-2 dm. high, more or less purple, finely puberu- 

 lent, with short retrorse hairs; leaf-blades ovate, 1-3 cm. long, finely puberulent 

 and glandular-punctate, finely serrate; calyx 2-2.5 mm. long, puberulent; teeth 

 triangular-lanceolate, acuminate; corolla 4-5 mm. long, light rose. Wet places, 

 esneciallv around hot springs: B.C.— Alta.^n Wyo. Submoni.^Mont. Jl-Au. 



Family 116. SOLANACEAE. Potato Family. 



Herbaceous p]^ants or rarely shrubs, with narcotic or stimulant proper- 

 ties. Leaves alternate, without stipules. Flowers perfect, usually regular. 

 Calvx of 5 (rarely 4 or 6) more or less united sepals, mostly persistent. 

 Coroila hypogynous, rotate, campanulate, funnelform, or salverform; limb 

 mostly lobed. " Stamens 5, rarely 4 or 6, fertile; filaments adnate to the tube 

 of the corolla and alternate with its lobes; anthers mtrorse, openmg length- 

 wise or by pores. Gynoecium usually of 2, rarely 3-5, united carpels; ovary 

 2- (rarely 3-5-) celled; stjde terminal; stigma entire. Ovules and seeds 

 numerous, amphitropous. Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds crustaceous, 

 often tuberculate, flattened; endosperm copious, fleshy. 



^"^^Coronrpiicate: lobes usuaUr induplicate; aU our species herbs or \ines. 



^^^6^or^a^^pe^n^4^^^^^ iJl^or whiti^^^often with a dar.er center: 



seeds finely pitted; flowers nodding in anthes^. 1 Physalis. 



Corolla rotate, Siolet or purple; seeds rugose-tuberculateiflo^-ers erect in 

 anthesis. ^* ybirvcuLA. 



Calyx not bladder-like inflated in fruit. 



r'aU'v Hoselv investing the berry. , , « « 



sTamem not inclined; low unarmed perennials. .3. CH-\^taesar.\cha. 



Statist SAiilar. declined; prickly annuals. 4. Andkocera. 



^"'fntTers'^short^^^^^ terminal pore or short slit 5, SOL..N-™. 



Anthers long, tapering to the sumnut. opening ^^^^^^^^"^l^^pj^j^^^ 



Corolla Uttle if at aU plicate; its lobes valvate; shrubs. 7. Lycium. 



^"'n.nsXcicumscissile near the top. which separates as a Ud; corolla irregular 



Airos 



3sule opening by valres; coroUa regular. Dixra^ 



V^^lT^l P^^^^;;kT.^le^'-scarcely flattened. lo! NicotiI^va. 



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1 PHYSALIS L. Ground Uherrt, j>tr 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, entire or sinuately toothed. 



PediSL usuallV solitary' from the axils of the leaves. ^ Cab^x campanulate 5- 



,^1.5 ..^™^ ^nrl becoming bladder-like in frmt, 5-angled or prominently 



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