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POTATO FAMILY 



collected on Isle Royale and is almost sure to occur on the north shore of 

 Lake Superior. 



Polemoniales Phlox Order 

 Solanaceae Potato Family 



Herbs, shrubs, or vines, with typically alternate simple often lobed 

 leaves ; flowers perfect and regular, solitary, or in clusters; sepals 5, 

 united, petals 5, united, stamens 5, on the corolla tube and alternate with 

 its lobes; ovary 2-celled, superior, fruit a berry or capsule with many 

 seeds. 



A family of about 70 genera, of world-wide distribution, but most 

 abundant in the tropics. 



Lycium L i n n e 1753 

 (Named from the country Lycia) 



Vines or shrubs, often with thorns, with alternate entire leaves; flowers 

 solitary or clustered, axillary or terminal, greenish to purple, calyx 3-5 

 lobed, persistent, corolla 5-lobed, more or less funnelform, stamens 5. 

 ovary 2-celled, becoming a globose to oblong berry. 



A genus of about 75 species, widely distributed in temperate and 

 tropical regions; 17 native species occur in western North America. 



Lycium vulgare D 11 11 a 1 1852 Matrimony Vine 



Bushy vine with slender trailing or hanging stems, 5-20 ft. long, the 

 lateral branches often reduced to thorns; leaves lanceolate to spatulate or 

 ovoid, margin entire, tip blunt or acute, base tapering into the petiole, 



