CHAP. LXXXIV, 



■SOLANA^CE^. LY'CIUM. 



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1107 



S. hetCweutn Cav., Bot. Rep., t. 411., is a native of South America, from which country it was in- 

 troduced into Britain in 180.3. It forms a splendid shrub, 10 rt. or I'i ft. high, and produces egg-shaped 

 fruit, of a deep crimson colour. The fruit are about the size and shape of magnum bonum plums, 

 and hang down in clusters of three or four together. {Card. Mag., vol. ii. p. 105.) A plant of this 

 species in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, in 1818, produced leaves nearly a foot in length, and half a 

 foot in breadth ; giving out, when handled, an odour resembling that of the bruised wood of S. Dul- 

 camara. This species resembles, in its free habit of growth, 

 I?rugraans;a suaveolens ; and it is observed by a correspondent 

 of the Gardener's Magazine, that it is likely to thrive and flower 

 under the same treatment as that plant. The same writer adds, 

 " did the plants of S. iet^ceum, when planted out, produce only 

 a copious clothing of such leaves, they would, in themselves, be 

 striking, and impart an additional tropical feature to the British 

 flower-garden." {Ibid., p. 155.) Theplantsof this species in the 

 Bristol Nursery are said to be somewhat different from that 

 figured in the Botanical Repository. (Ibid., p. 269.) 



S. angiildtum R. et .S., Dun. .Sol , 2. 95. t. 1., is a native of 

 Lima, introduced in 18^. It has large angulated prickly leaves, 

 with purple veins and petioles. Preserved through the winter 

 in a stove, and turned out in the spring, it makes a splendid 

 appearance in the flower border. 



S. 7narginutitm W., Bot. Mag., t. 1928., is a native of Africa, 

 and forms an evergreen shrub, 4 ft. or 5 ft. high., striking from 

 the mealy whiteness of its leaves. 



S. Pseudo-Ciipsicum L., Capsicum yimbmum Plinii Gerard, 

 is a native of Madeira, an old inhabitant of our green-houses. 

 It grows 4fl. or 5tt. high, and produces red, or yellowish fruit, 

 about the size of cherries. Gerard says, " it is a rare and pleasant 

 plane, kept in pots and tubs in green-houses during the extremity 

 of winter, and set abroad in March and April." 



S. sodbmeum L., the apple of Sodom, is a native of different 

 parts of Africa, and also of Sicily, and the south of Italy. It is 

 a shrub, with numerous short and thick branches, armed with 

 many spines. The leaves are above 4 in. long, and 2 in. broad. 

 The flowers are blue, and the berries yellow, as large as walnuts. 

 It abounds, along with .Spartium infestum Presl, on the coast 

 of Calabria, and at the foot of Mount Etna. [Cump. Bot. Mag., 

 1. p. 9o.) 



S. Ugustrinum Lodd. Bot. Cab., t 19fS3., and ourjig. 1107., is 

 a native of Chili, introduced by Mr. Gumming in "1831, and 

 flowering in a sheltered border from May to September. It is a 

 free-growing shrub, readily propagated by cuttings ; and judging 

 from the plant in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, from which our 

 figure was taken, we should think it tolerably hardy, 



Genus II. 



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LY'CIUM L. The Box Thorn. Lin. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. 



Identifix:ation. Lin. Gen., 1262.; Lam. Ill, t. 112. ; H. B. et Kunth Nov. Gen. Amer., 3. p. 50. ; 

 Lindl Nat. Syst. Bot., 2d edit., p. 295. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 457. 



Sunonunies. Jasminoides Niss. in Act. Gall., 1711, Mich. Gen., 224. t. 105. ; Matrimony Vine, 

 Amer. • Lycien, Fr. ; Bocksdorn, Ger. One species, L. barbarum, is commonly called the Duke 

 of Argyll's tea tree, from the circumstance of a tea plant [Thia viridis) having been sent to the 

 Duke of Argyll at the same time as this plant, and the labels having been accidentally changed. 



Derivatioji. Derived from Lycia, in Asia Minor ; hence the lukion of Dioscorides ; a name given by 

 him to a thorny shrub, which was supposed by Dr. Sibthorp to have been the flhamnusinfectbrius, 

 but which Mr. Roylc, with greater probability, regards as identical with a species of Berbcris, 

 which he has denominated Berbcris Xycium. 



Description, Sfc. Thorny rambling shrubs, in general producing long slender 

 shoots, and assuming the character of climbers. Natives of Europe, Asia, 

 Africa and America. Hedges may be formed of the first nine sorts. 



± 1. L. EUROP^^UM L. The European Box Thorn. 



Identification. Lin. Syst., 228. ; Mant., p. 47. ; WiUd. Enum., 1. p. 24& ; Sibth. et Smith Fl. Grsc, 



t 2.')6. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 458. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 18.36. 

 Synont/mes. L. .falicifblium Mill. Diet., No. 3., Mich. Gen., p. 224. t. 105. f. 1., Mill. Icon., t. 171. 



f 2. ; Jasminoides aculeatum Micfi. 

 Engravings. Mich. Gen., t. 105. f. 1. ; Mill. Icon., 1. 171. f. 2. ; and our Jig. 1108. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Branches erect, loose. Buds spinescent. Leaves fascicled, 

 obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, or spathulate, bent obliquely. Flowers twin or 

 solitary. Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens exserted, but shorter than the 

 limb. Calyx 5-cleft, ruptured at the side. Corollas pale violet, reticulated 

 with red veins ; tube greenish. (Z>on's Mill., iv. p. 458.) A rambling 



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