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•*-•<- ■>- Sepals 5 and distinct, subtended hij 2 or more sepal-like bracts. 



C. compacta, Juss. On shrubs, Ont., S. and W.; bracts (3-5) and 

 S('p:ils muiid and appressed ; tube of the corolla cyliudrical. 



C. glomerata, t^hoisy. On Golden Rods and other coarse Compositse, 

 from Ohio, W. and iS.; the numerous oblong, scarious bracts closely im- 

 bricated with recurving tips ; sepals similar, shorter than the cylindra- 

 ceous tube of the corolla. 



LXXX, SOLANACEiE, NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 



Plants with rank-scented herbage (this and the fruit more 

 commonly narcotic-poisonous), colorless juice, alternate leaves 

 (but apt to be in pairs and unequal), regular flowers (on bract- 

 less pedicels) with tli3 parts usually in fives (stamens 4 in 

 Brunfelsia, and 1 or more of them rudimentary in some other 

 genera), but the ovary mostly 2-celled, the many-seeded pla- 

 centse in the axis. The seeds have a slender, usually curved 

 embryo, in fleshy albumen. (Lessons, Figs. 50, 51.) The 

 order runs into Scrophulariacese, which a few species approach 

 in a somewhat irregular corolla, but their stamens are as many 

 as the lobes (except Nos. 9 and 15-17). Mostly herbs. 



* Fruit a fleshy (or in No. 5, dryish) berry. 



+- Corolla wheel-shaped, lobed or parted into 5 or sometimes more divisions, plaited 

 and vahKite or the margins turned inivards in the bud; tlie tube very short ; 

 antliers conniving around tlie style. 



1. LTCOPERSICUM. Like Solanuin, except that the anthers ai-e united by a membi-aue 



at their tips and the cells open lengthwise. Leaves pinnately compound. 



2. SOLA NUM. Stamens with anthers equaling or mostly longer than the very short fila- 



ments, usually not united, the cells opening by a hole at the apex. (Lessons, Figs. 

 252, 2.53.) Leaves simple or pinnate. 

 8. CAPSICUM. Stamens with slender filaments much longer than the short and separate 

 commonly heart-shaped anthers, their cells opening lengthwise. Berry sometimes 

 dryish and inflated, then becoming 1-celled. 



+- +■ Corolla between irheel-shaped and funnel-form, plaited in the bud, the border very 

 moderately if at all lobed; anthers separate, opening lengthwise; calyx blad- 

 dery-inflated after flotccring, inclosing the globular berry. 



4. PIIYSALIS. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla mostly somewhat 5-lobed. Stamens erect. Fruit 



a juicy, often edible, 2-celled berry. 

 6. NIOANDUA. Calyx o-parted and angled, the divisions somewhat arrow-shaped. 



Corolla with widely-spreading border almost entire. Fruit a dryish 3-5-celled berry. 



<- -I- -1- Corolla bell shaped, funnel form, tubular, or snlver-shaped ; anthers separate, 

 ■opening lengthwise ; calyx not bladdery-inflated. 



++ Stamens normally .') (exception sometimes in iVo. SJ. 



•= Calyx imparted to near the base, the lobes leafy. 



6. ATROP.\. Calyx with ovate divisions, in fruit enlarging and spreading under the glo-" 

 bose piirjilo berry. Corolla between bell-shaped and funnel-form, with 5 triangular- 

 ovate lobes. Stamens and stvle somewhat declined, slender. 



