SOLANACEAE. . 335 
Lycium. Matrimony Vine. 
(Family Solanaceae). 
Spreading or (often high) 
scrambling shrubs with spinescent 
twigs: deciduous. Twigs slender, 
5-angled, glabrous, often whitish 
or short striate: pith moderate, 
spongy. Buds small and incon- 
spicuously multiple, or develop- 
ing. into very dwarf aggregates, 
subglobose, indistinctly scaly. Leaf- 
scars alternate, crescent-shaped, 
small, somewhat raised: bundle- 
trace 1: stipule-scars lacking. 
Winter-character references: — 
Lycium chinense. Shirasawa, 235. 
L. halimifolium (L. barbarum of 
common usage; L. vulgare). Bose- 
mann, 51; Schneider, f: 83. 
The bushy southwestern ly- 
ciums, in common with condalias, 
ceanothuses, etc. enter into the 
composition of chaparral. 
. Intricately branched bushes of the Southwest. 2. 
Loosely branched, sometimes scrambling. 3. 
. Twigs straight, gray. L. californicum. 
Twigs zig-zag, buff. L. parviflorum. 
. Wide-spreading or scrambling. (1). L. chinense. 
Bushy, with moderate shoots. 4. 
. Twigs red-brown, with fissured gray surface. L. pallidum. 
Twigs pale. 5. 
. Axils slightly hairy. (Garrambullo). L. Torreyi. 
Without hairs in the axils. 6. 
. Cultivated everywhere. (Matrimony vine). L. halimifolium. 
Wild, in the South. L. carolinianum. 
