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37. SOLAN ACE^ 



Pasture and waste places. — 

 Oct.-Apl. — Mediterranean re- 

 gion and South Africa. 



<Si. nigrum, L. (Black Night- 

 shade), an anniial with small 

 Avhite. almost umbellate flow- 

 ers and small black berries, 

 is cosmopolitan, and believed 

 t-o be indigenous. 



.Si. cinereum, R. Br., re- 

 .sembling S. sodomfVAvm in 

 flowers and leaves, except 

 that the latter are white- 

 tomentose below, with weaker 

 spines and smaller globular 

 vellow berries, a native of 

 New South Wales, has ap- 

 peared near Burnside. 



2. Physalis. L, 



(Greek physa, a bladder; 



alluding to the fruiting 



calyx.) 



Solanum sodomaeum. 



Physalis peruviana. 



1. Phys£iiis peruvi- 

 ana, L. Cape Gnnxchrrri/. 

 Downy herbaceous perennial; 

 leaves in pairs but not really 

 opposite, petiolate, oval-acu- 

 minate, cordate at base, 

 sinuate-tootlied or almost en- 

 tire; Howors solitary, axillary, 

 drooping; fruiting calyx en- 

 larged and i)ladderv, enclo.sing 

 tlie fruit and with 5 connivont 

 teeth : corolla broadly cam- 

 painilate, pale - yellow, with 

 6 purple spots neaj- the base; 

 berry globular, yellow. edil)le. 



Beside creeks near Norman- 

 ville and Yankalilla. — Sept.- 

 Jan. — South America ; brought 

 to S.ydney in early colonial 

 davs from the Cape of (Jood 

 Hope. 



1. Lycium^ 



.3. I>YC1 



onso. 



ch in < 





JM, L. 



^Iill. (including L. — i "M? ; / t( »'o 

 ji ivi j^. .iii ij i/MJij.-ni. .... Bi/xthoni. (ilabrous shrub; 



somewhat spiny, with h)ng, greyish, flexible, often drooping 

 branches and numerous .short branchlets ending in a stout 



