240 ORD. XII. Solanacee, seu Luride. 
SOLANUM DULCAMARA. WOODY NIGHTSHADE, 
SYNONYMA. Dulcamara. Pharm Edinb. Solanum scandens 
seu Dulcamara. Bauh. Pin. 176. Glycypicros, sive Amara- 
dulcis. J. Bauh. ti. 199. Amara Dulcis. Gerard.-emac. 350. 
Solanum lignosum sive Dulcamara.. Park. Theat. 350.  Raii. 
Synopsis, 265. Raii Hist.672. Solanum caule flexuoso frutes- 
cente, foliis supremis tripartitis & cordato lanceolatis, Hail. 
Stirp. Helv.n. 575. Hudson Flor. Ang. p.78. Withering. Bot. 
~ Arrang. 255. Flor. Dan, tab. 607. Curtis Flor. Lond. Levy 
Theophrast. 
Varietates, 
« Solanum seandens seu Duicamara. I. c. 
g Solanum dulcamarum africanum goliie. crassis Lees, Hort. 
Elt. Vide Hort. Kew. 
Sp. Ch. S. ‘caule inermi frutescente flexuoso, foliis. superioribus 
hastatis, racemis cymosis. 
THE stalk is slender, climbing, alternately branched, somewhat 
angular, brittle, hollow, and frequently rises above six feet in 
height: it is covered with bark of an ash-colour, and that of the 
young branches is of a purple hue: the leaves are long, oval, 
pointed, veined, and many of those near the top are halbert- 
shaped, but the lower leaves are entire; and of a deep green colour:: 
the flowers hang in loose clusters or cymz; the corolla is monope-- 
talous, wheel-shaped, divided into five pointed segments, which are: 
bent backwards, of a purple colour, and the base of each marked: 
with two round green ‘pots: the tube is short, and_ the faux or 
mouth is of a shining black colour: the calyx is small, and divides 
into five blunt persistent segments, of a purple colour: the five 
filaments are short, black, and inserted in the tube of the corolla; 
the antherz are yellow, erect, and unite at their points ; the style is 
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