74 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
Order LIX.—SOLANACE:, 
Flowers regular, in axillary or supra-axillary cymes ; 
calyx 5-cleft, persistent, often enlarged in fruit; corolla 
5-lobed ; stamens 5, epipetalous ; ovary 2- or incompletely 
4-celled ; seeds small, very numerous; fruit a berry or 
capsule. A large order, chiefly tropical, with very 
poisonous properties; no alpine species. 
I. SOLANUM, Tourn. 
Flowers solitary or in cymes; corolla rotate; anthers 
connate, opening by terminal pores; fruit a 2-celled berry. 
S. Dulcamara, L., Bitter-Sweet ; flowers violet, with 
large yellow anthers, in cymes opposite the leaves, stem 
weak, scrambling, berry red; hedges, common. 5S. 
nigrum, L. (including mznzatum, Bernh., and humile, 
Mill.), an annual weed with small white flowers, and 
black, yellow, or red berry. S. vz/losum, Lam.; flowers 
larger, white, leaves pubescent, berry greenish-yellow ; 
cultivated land. 
2.. PHYSALIs,. L. 
Flowers solitary ; corolla rotate; calyx enlarged after 
flowering, and enveloping the 2-celled berry as a bladder. 
P. Alkekengi, L., Winter Cherry; flowers pendant, 
solitary or in pairs, dirty white, envelope of berry at 
length red; hedges; Switzerland, Jura, Pyrenees. 
3. ATROPA, L. 
Flowers large, solitary or few, campanulate ; stamens 
distinct; fruit a 2-celled berry ; leaves entire. 
