AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS 
XVI. 
Tue Nat. Ord. SoLANACE2 comprises, in our 
Flora, the two species of Nightshade, Solanum, 
together with the Henbane, the Thorn-apple, 
and the almost celebrated Atropfa Belladonna, 
Deadly Nightshade. 
There is also the straggling shrub often seen 
on cottage fronts, improperly called “Tea- 
tree”; it is the Willow-leafed Lycium, Z. 
Barbarum, a production of Southern Europe ; 
flowers star-like and purplish; its shoots are 
often many feet or even yards long. 
The flowers of these plants are usually 
pentamerous, having their parts respectively 
in fives; they are frequently star-like, as in 
the two species of Solanum, Nightshade, and 
the Potato, which is a good example; but 
sometimes bell-shaped, as in AZ¢vofa, Deadly 
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