224 GAMOPETALOUS EXOGENS 



ORDER LXX. SOLANA^CEAE. 



Mostly herbs ; with a watery juice ; leaves alternate, without stipules ; flowers regular, 

 chiefly pentamerous and pentandrous, on bractless pedicels; coroUa plicate, or 

 infolded-valvate in the bud; stamens inserted in to the corolla, as many as its lobes, 

 and alternate with them; fruit a many -seed berry, or capsule; seeds with fleshy 

 albumen. 



An Order affording many powerful narcotics, and stimulants, as well as some 

 valuable esculents ; several of which are here enumerated. 



f Corolla tubular, or funnel-form ; stamens separate. 

 * Fruit a berry. 



323. I,Y V CIUM, L. 



[Named from Lycia, in Asia Minor; the native place of one species.] 

 Calyx irregularly 2- or 3- to 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla tubular- 

 funnel-form; border mostly 5-lobed, spreading. Stamens usually 

 exserted; filaments bearded. Berry 2-celled. Seeds reniform. 

 Shrubby vines : leaves entire ; peduncles extra-axillary, solitary, or 

 in pairs. 



1. L. Bdrbarum, L. Somewhat spinose ; branches elongated, flaccid 

 and dependent; leaves oblong-lanceolate, often clustered; calyx 

 mostly 3-cleft. 

 BARBARIAN LYCIUM. Bastard Jasmine. Matrimony-Vine. 



Perennial. Stem 10 to 15 or 20 feet long, slender, much branched, with indura- 

 ted points, or spinose rudiments, at the axils or base of the leaves. Leaves 1 to 3 

 inches long, tapering at base to a petiole about half an inch in length. Peduncles 

 about an inch long, slender, often 2 or 4 together; corolla greenish-purple; berry 

 oval, orange-red when mature. 

 Hal. About houses. Nat. of Northern Asia. Fl. June. Fr. July. 



Obs. This straggling half-vine kind of shrub is partially natu- 

 ralized in many places ; and being rather difficult to get rid of, 

 when once established, is often something of a nuisance. 



* * Fruit a capsule. 



324. WICOTIA V ]VA, L. 



[Named after John Nicot ; who is said to have introduced it into France.] 

 Calyx ventricose-tubular, persistent. Corolla tubular, with the 

 border spreading, plicately 5-lobed. Stamens included. Stigma 

 capitate. Capsule covered by the calyx, septicidally 2-valved at 

 apex, often finally loculicidal. Seeds minute, very numerous. 

 Mostly clammy-pubescent annuals : leaves entire, often large ; flow- 

 ers paniculate. 



1. N. TABXCUM, L. Leaves lance-ovate, acute or acuminate, sessile 

 and decurrent; corolla-lobes acuminate, the throat inflated. , 

 TOBAGO NIGOTIANA. Tobacco. Common Tobacco. 



Stem 4 to 6 feet high, stout, finally almost woody at base, paniculately branched 

 at summit. Leaves 1 to 2 feet long, smaller as they ascend. Calyx about % the 

 length of the corolla, the segments lanceolate, erect. Corolla about 2 inches long, 

 the border rose-colored, tube pale greenish-yellow. Capsule, ovoid, sulcate on 

 each side ; seeds reniform, rugose. 

 Hob. Gardens, and lots. Nat. of Southern America. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



