CLASSIFICATION OF ANGIOSPERMS, 



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/. SOLANACE.F: OR POTATO FA^IILY.— The family 

 includes herbs, shrubs, trees, and vines, which are most abundant 

 in tropical regions. The leaves are alternate and vary from entire 



to dissected. The flowers are mostly regular, except in hyos- 

 cyamus. The stamens are adnate to the corolla tube the anthers 

 connivent, and the pollen-sacs apically or longitudmally dehiscent 

 The fruit is a berry or capsule in which the sepals mostly persist 



