150 Nightshade (Solanacece). [No. 19 



Stamens, five, inserted on the corolla and alternate 

 with its lobes, exserted. Filaments, bearded and 

 closing the throat. Anthers, opening lengthwise. 

 Style, one. Stigma, one. Seed-case, free, two-celled, 

 several-seeded. 



Leaves, two and a half to four inches, about three times as 

 long as wide, simple, alternate (or often in clusters). 

 Edge, entire, lance shape to oval, or sometimes 

 widened toward the apex, smooth. Base, tapering. 

 Apex, pointed or blunt. Stems, angled, the branches 

 sometimes spiny, and ending in a spiny point. 



Fruit, small, oval, orange-red, two-celled. Seeds, several, 

 kidney-shaped. A berry. 



Found, common in cultivation, and sparingly naturalized 

 in Pennsylvania, etc. 



A woody shrub, with long trailing or drooping branches. 

 These branches in cultivation are often trained as screens, 

 and when wild, cover walls and fences in thick tangled 

 masses. 



" But daintiest of all the multitude of dainties of pas- 

 ture, wood, and meadow, is the nectar of flowers. . . . 

 I remember how when a child, if I wished an Olympian 

 feast, I sought the flowers of the queer, ungraceful old 

 Matrimony Vine, which, for some unknown reason, gained 

 so much favor with housewives, who carefully trained it 

 over porch or trellis or against the side of the house, yet 

 were always complaining at the litter of the constantly 

 falling leaves. ... By squeezing the short tube of a 

 freshly opened flower the faded buff ones were passed 

 by a generous sweet drop was secured." ATLANTIC 

 MONTHLY, September, 1893. 



