758 SOLANACEAE 



1. L. Lycopersicum (L.) Karst. Viscid-pubescent, much branched; stem 

 3-10 dm. high; leaves 2-pinnatifid, lobcd and dentate; corolla yellow, 10-15 

 mm. broad; fruit through cultivation very variable, subglobose, ellipsoid, or pear- 

 shaped, red or yellow. L. esculentum Mill. Waste places and around dwellings: 

 N.Y. — Fla. — Tex. — Colo.; Calif.; escaped from cultivation. 



7. LYCIUM L. Matrimony Vine. 



Shrubs or woody vines, often spiny. Leaves alternate, thick, entire, often 

 with smaller ones clustered in their axils. Flowers perfect, regular, solitary or 

 clustered in the axils. Calyx enlarged and persistent under the fruit, deeply 

 o-cleft. Corolla whitish, yellowish, or purplish, funnelform, salverform, or cam- 

 panulate; lobes 5 or rarely 4, imbricate, obtuse. Stamens 5 or 4; filaments adnata 

 up to the mouth of the corolla-tube; anthers opening lengthwise. Ovary 2- 

 celled. Berry rather dry. 



1. L. pallidum. 



Fruit red, globose; corolla narrowly funnelform 

 Flowers 2 cm. long. 

 Flowers about 1 cm. long. 



Leaves and calyces puberulent. the latter about half as long as the corollas. 



2. L, Coopen. ^ 



Leaves and calyces glabrous (except the margin) » the latter less than one-third 



as long as the corollas. 

 Calyx nearly one-third as long as the coroila. its lobes lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate; leaves 1-4 cm. long. 3. L. Torreyt. 

 • Calyx less than one-fourth as long as the corolla, its lobes broadly triangular; 



leaves usually less than 1 cm. long. 4. L. Andersomi, 



Fruit orange-red. oval ; coroUa short- fimnelform, greenish piirple. 5. L. vulgare. 



!• L. pallidum Miers. Shrub 6-12 dm. high, more or less spiny; leaves 

 pale, spatulate or oblanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, fascicled, glabrous or pruinose; 

 corolla narrowly fimneUorm, greenish, tinged with purple; filaments exserted, 

 glabrous. Arid hills: w Tex.— Colo.— Utah— Ariz.; Mex. Son. Ap-My. 



2. L. Cooperi A. Gray. Shrub 5-10 dm. high, with very short spines and 



stout branches; leaves spatulate, minutely viscid-pubescent or puberulent, 1-2.0 



1 11 , funnelform, 10-12 



obtuse; filaments hairy at the base. Arid hills: s Calif.— s Utah— Ariz. i. 

 Son. Ap-Je, 



3. L. Torreyi A. Gray. Shrub 1-2.5 m. high, more or less spiny; leaves 

 spatulate or oblanceolate, 1-4 cm. long, glabrous; corolla 10-12 mm. long, nar- 

 rowly funnelform; limb about 8 mm. wide; lobes tomentulose on the margms; 

 filaments very woolly at the base; berry red. Arid hills: w Tex. — s Utah— s 

 Calif. L. Son. Mr-Je. 



4. L.^ Andersonii A. Gray. Shrub 5-10 dm. high, much branched, vdth 

 short spines, glabrous; leaves linear-spatulate or oblanceolate, 3-10 mm. long, 

 glabrous; corolla tubular-funnelform, about 1 cm. long; limb 4-5 mm. wide, 

 lobes rounded; filaments slightly hairy at the base; berry bright red. And hills: 

 Nev. — Utah— Ariz . Son . Ap-Je . 



6. L. vulgare Dunal. Tall shrub, often climbing or trailing; stems 2-8 m. 

 long, sometimes spiny; leaves lanceolate, oblong, or spatulate, 1-4 cm. long, 

 corolla purplish, changing to greenish, 8-12 mm. wide. Thickets and waste 

 places: Ont.— Conn.— Utah— Alta.; escaped from cultivation, native of Eurasia 

 and n Africa, 



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8, HYOSCYAMUS (Tourn.) L. Henbane. 



Viscid-pubescent* herbs. Leaves alternate, lobed or pinnatifid. Flowers 

 perfect, regular, soUtary in the U])per axils and in terminal racemes. Calyx urn- 

 shaped, 5-cleft, striate. Corolla fimnelform, with slightly oblique 5-lobed lunD. 

 Stamens decHned, mostly exserted; anthers o]>ening longitudinally. J-'var} 

 2-celled; stigma capitate. Capsule 2-celled, circumscissile above the middle. 



1. H. niger L. Biennial, with a fusiform root; stem viscid-villous, 3-10 dm. 



ti; leaves oblong to ovate, sinuately toothed or lobed, the upper clasping, ^^' 



■villous: cah-x camnannlatp strnrio-lir xraJnf^H in fnnt 9-9 Fi cm. lone; corona 



