496 SOLANACE^E CUSCUTA 



depressed-globose, capped with the marcescent corolla. On shrubs and 

 tall herbs, eastern Oregon to the Eastern States. 



C. Callfornica Choisy Cusc. 183. Stems capillary, low : flowers rath- 

 er small and delicate, in loose cymes: lobes of the calyx acute: corolla 

 gamopetalous, campanulate its lanceolate-subulate lobes as long as the 

 campanulate tube or longer : scales none, or rudimentary : styles slender, 

 longer than the ovary : capsule depressed-globose. On Eriogonum etc. 

 southern Oregon to California. 



C. salina Engelm. Bot. Cal. i, 536. Stems slender, low: flowers white 

 delicate, short- pedicelled or clustered: calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 as long as the shallow-campanulate tube of the corolla : lobes of the corolla 

 ovate, acute, denticulate; scales fringed, mostly shorter than the tube, 

 sometimes incomplete : filaments about as long as the oval anthers : style 

 equalling or shorter than the ovary: capsule pointed, mostly 1-seeded, 

 surrounded by the marcescent corolla. In saline or brackish marshes 

 along the coast, Brit. Columbia to California. 



ORDER LXVII SOLANACE.E Pers. Syst. i, 214. 



Herbs shrubs or even trees with alternate or rarely opposite 

 leaves without stipules, watery juice and perfect regular or 

 nearly regular 4-5-inerous flowers in variously modified cymes; 

 the pedicels either not accompanied by bracts, or not in their 

 axils. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous. Corolla rotate, campan- 

 late, funnelform, salverform or tubular, mostly 5-lobed, the 

 lobes induplicate-valvate or plicate in the bud. Stamens as 

 many as lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, inserted 

 on the tube of the corolla : anthers 2-celled, dehiscent at the apex 

 or longitudinally. Ovary entire, normally 2-celled, with the 

 placentae in the axis, many-ovuled, surmounted by an undivided 

 style: stigmas entire or sometimes bilamellar. Ovules anatro- 

 pous. Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds numerous, the testa 

 sometimes roughened. Embryo terete, spirally curved or nearly 

 straight, in fleshy albumen, the cotyledons rarely much broad- 

 er than the radicle. 



TRIBE i Corolla mostly short, with the limb plicate or valvate 

 in the bud. Stamens all perfect. Fruit berry-like, at least not 

 dehiscent, sometimes nearly dry. 



1 Solannm Calyx little or not at all enlarged in fruit : anthers longer 



than their filaments, connivent into a cone, or slightly connate; the 

 cells opening at the apex, or sometimes longitudinally. 



2 Phy salis Calyx usually much enlarged in fruit : anthers unconnected 



and not connivent. 



TRIBE n Corolla mostly long with the limb either plicate or 

 imbricate in the bud. Stamens all perfect. Fruit a capsule. 



8 DATUKA Calyx prismatic or tubular, 5-tootbed, in ours at length cir- 

 cumscissile near the base: fruit a 4-valved mostly prickly capsule. 



TRIBE in Corolla usually long, with the limb mduplicate-im- 

 bricate in the bud. Stamens all perfect. Fruit in ours capsular. 



