37. SOLANACE.^. 



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lanceolate, upper ones lanceolate and half-clasping; flowers 

 small, white, in lengthening racemes with leafy bracts at 

 the base of the pedicels ; calyx 

 deeply cut into 5 linear-lanceo- 

 late lobes, .spreading in fruit : 

 corolla funnel-shaped, downy 

 outside and slightly exceeding 

 the calyx, with short, rounded 

 lobes; carpels triangular-conical, 

 attached to the receptacle by 

 their bases. 



Pasture and cultivated 

 -Aug. -Dec. — Europe, Asia. 



land. 



Family 31 



SOLANACE>!E. 



Calyx of 5 divisions, persistant 

 at least at the base; corolla with 

 5 equal lobes, usually folded in 

 bud ; stamens 5, alternate with 

 the corolla lobes ; style and ovary 

 simple : stigma entire o" 2-iolied ; 

 frtiit a berry or capside Avith 2 

 manv-seeded cells. Herbs or 

 woody plants, v.ith alternate 

 leaves. 



Lithospermum arvense. 



Fruit a berry ; flowers comparatively small. 

 Corolla wheelshaped or belLshaped ; 

 anthers large, close together. 

 Calyx shorter than fruit ; anthers open- 

 ing in 2 pore? at top Solvxtm 1 



Calyx enclosing- fruit ; anthers opening 



by longitudinal slits Physai.IS 2 



C'orolla fuiiiiel-shapod ; anthers small, dis- 

 tant I-YfirM 3 



Fruit a capsule; flowers large. 



Stigma 2-lobed ; capsule spiny, 4-valved ... Dattiia 4 

 Stigma entire; capsule not spiny, 2-valved Nicotiana 5 



1. SOL.ANUM, L. 



1. SoianuiYi sodomseum, L. Apple of Sodom. 

 Undershrub with intricate branches, and beset with 

 stout, .straight prickles and .scattered .stellate hairs; 

 leaves .shortly stalked, wavy, sinuate-pinnatifid, with 

 rounded lobes and sinuses, green on both sides, 

 lighter below ; flowers A'iolet in short racemes, on 

 short thick peduncles,- recurved in fruit; calyx 

 prickl.v. with 5 lanceolate lobes; corolla with a 

 spreading o-lobed limb, .sprinkled with stellate hairs 

 and a verv short tube ; berry large, depressed- 

 globtilar, at first white with green stripes, yellow when 

 ripe; pulp acrid. 



