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*2. Lycium, represented by L. chinense (The Duke of Argyll's 

 Tea-tree), an Asiatic shrub naturalised in many places, especially 

 near the sea, straggling, with long, pendulous and sometimes 

 spinous branches; fleshy, glabrous, lanceolate leaves; purple, funnel- 

 shaped flowers with a short corolla-tube, green throat, and black 

 honey-guides ; and red, berrj-like fruit. Suggested as a substi- 

 tute for tea. — Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



Atropa belladonxa {Deadly Nightshade, D7va!e). 



3. Atropa (Deadly Nightshade), represented by one species, 

 A. Belladonna, a stout, branched, erect, herbaceous plant, 3 — 4 

 feet high, with runners ; leaves large, stalked, ovate, acute, gener- 

 ally in unequal pairs; flowers solitary, axillary, drooping, bell-shaped, 

 lurid purple ; calyx leafy, persistent ; fruit globose black, pol- 

 ished, resembling a cherry, but for the persistent calyx. — Old 

 quarries and among ruins, especially on chalk and limestone soil ; 



