376 SOLANACE.E. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 



(P. viscosa, Gray, Man., not L.) — Light or sandy soils, Ont. and Minn, to 

 Fla. and Tex. — Var. AMBfouA, Gray, is a coarse and very villous form with 

 violet anthers. Wise, and westward. 



H_ s_ ^_ Perennials, mostli/ low, not viscid; pubescence stellate or simple or nearly 

 none ; anthers almost always yellow. 



6. P. viscosa, L. Cinereous or when young almost canescent with short 

 stellate or 2-3-/orked pubescence; stems ascending or spreading from slender 

 creeping subterranean shoots; leaves ovate or oval, varying to oblong and obo- 

 vate, entire or undulate ; corolla greenish-yellow, with a more or less dark eye ; 

 fruiting calyx globose-ovate ; berry yellow or orange. — In sands on and near 

 the coast, Va. to N. C. and Fla. 



7. P. lailC60l8lta<, ]Michx. More or less hirsute-pubescent ivith short stijff 

 mostly simple hairs, varying to nearly glabrous; stems from rather stout sub- 

 terranean shoots, angled, somewhat rigid ; leaves oblong-ovate to narrowly lanceo- 

 late, sparingly augulate-toothed to undulate or entire ; corolla ochroleucous, 

 with a more or less dark eye; calyx commonly hirsute, in fruit pyramidal-ovate 

 (1 - 1^' long) ; berry reddish. (P. Pennsylvanica, Gray, Man., in part ; not L.) 

 — Dry open ground, Penn. to 111., Minn., and south and westward. 



Var. Isevigata, Gray. Glabrous or almost so throughout, or with some 

 very short hairs on young parts. — Neb. to Tex., and westward. 



Var. hirta, Gray. A remarkable ambiguous form, with much of the hir 

 sute-pubesceuce of the leaves 2 - 3-f orked, as also are some of the abundant 

 villous-hispid hairs of the stem. — Wet woods, Tex. to Mo., and E. Kan. 



4. NICANDRA, Adans. Apple of Peru. 



Calyx 5-parted, 5-angled, the divisions rather arrow-shaped, enlarged and 

 bladder-like in fruit, enclosing the 3-.5-celled globular dry berry. Corolla 

 Avith border nearly entire. Otherwise much like Physalis. — An annual 

 smooth herb (2-3° high), with ovate sinuate toothed or angled leaves, and 

 solitary pale blue flowers on axillary and terminal peduncles. (Named after 

 the poet Nicander of Colophon.) 



W. PHYSALOiDES, Gacrtu. — Waste grounds, near dwellings and old gar- 

 dens. (Adv. from Peru.) 



5. LYCIUM, L. Matrimony- Vine. 



Calyx 3 - 5-toothed or -cleft, not enlarging, persistent at the base of the berry. 

 Corolla funuel-form or salver-shaped, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated and not 

 plaited in the bud. Stamens 5; anthers opening lengthwise. _ Style slender; 

 stigma capitate. Berry small, 2-celled. Shrubby, often spiny plants, with 

 alternate and entire small leaves, and mostly axillary small flowers. (Named 

 from the country, Lycia.) 



L. vulgXre, Dunal. (Common M.) Shrub with long sarmentose recurved- 

 drooping branches, smooth, sparingly if at all spiny ; leaves oblong- or spatu- 

 late-lanceolate, often fascicled, narrowed into a short petiole ; flowers on slender 

 peduncles fascicled in the axils ; corolla short funnel-form, greenish-purple ; 

 style and slender filaments equalling its lobes ; berry oval, orange-red. — About 

 dwellings, and escaped into waste grounds in Penn.. etc. (Adv. from Eu.) 



6. HYOSCYAMUS, Tourn. Henbane. 



Calyx bell-shaped or urn-shaped, 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-form, oblique, with 

 a 5-lobed more or less unequal plaited border. Stniuf^us declined. Capsule 



