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. Solan UM, Tourn. 



Flowers solitary or in cymes; corolla rotate; anthers 

 connate, opening by terminal pores ; fruit a 2-celled berry. 



6^. Dulcamara^ L., Bitter-Sweet ; flowers violet, with 

 large yellow anthers, in cymes opposite the leaves, stem 

 weak, scrambling, berry red; hedges, common. 6". 

 nigrum^ L. (including miniatum^ Bernh., and humiky 

 Mill.), an annual weed with small white flowers, and 

 black, yellow, or red berry. 6'. villosum^ Lam. ; flowers 

 larger, white, leaves pubescent, berry greenish-yellow ; 

 cultivated land. 



2. Physalis, L. 



Flowers soHtary; 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. 



