376 SOLANACE^E. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 



(P. viscosa, Gray, Man., not L.) Light or sandy soils, Ont. and Minn, to 

 Fla. and Tex. Var. AMB* GUA, Gray, is a coarse and very villous form with 

 violet anthers. Wise., and westward. 



1- 1- -i- Perennials, mostly low, not viscid ; pubescence stellate or simple or nearly 

 none ; anthers almost always yellow. 



6. P. visc6sa, L. Cinereous or when young almost canescent with short 

 stellate or 2- 3-forked pubescence ; stems ascending or spreading from slender 

 creeping subterranean shoots ; leaves ovate or oval, varying to oblong and obo- 

 vate, entire or undulate ; corolla greenish-yellow, with a more or less dark eye ; 

 fruiting calyx globose-ovate; berry yellow or orange. In sands on and near 

 the coast, Va. to N. C. and Fla. 



7. P. lanceolata, Michx. More or less hirsute-pubescent with short stiff 

 mostly simple hairs, varying to nearly glabrous ; stems from rather stout sub- 

 terranean shoots, angled, somewhat rigid ; leaves oblong-ovate to narrowly lanceo- 

 late, sparingly angulate-toothed to undulate or entire ; corolla ochroleucous, 

 with a more or less dark eye; calyx commonly hirsute, in fruit pyramidal-ovate 

 (1 - H' long) ; berry reddish. (P. Pennsylvania, Gray, Man., in part ; not L.) 

 Dry open ground, Penn. to 111., Minn., and south and westward. 



Var. Isevigata, Gray. Glabrous or almost so throughout, or with some 

 very short hairs on young parts. Neb. to Tex., and westward. 



Var. hirta, Gray. A remarkable ambiguous form, with much of the hir 

 sute-pubescence of the leaves 2 - 3-forked, as also are some of the abundant 

 villous-hispid hairs of the stem. Wet woods, Tex. to Mo., and E. Kan. 



4. NICANDBA, Adans. APPLE OF PERU. 



Calyx 5-parted, 5-angled, the divisions rather arrow-shaped, enlarged and 

 bladder-like in fruit, enclosing the 3 - 5-celled globular dry berry. Corolla 

 with border nearly entire. Otherwise much Tike Physalis. An annual 

 smooth herb (2-3 high), with ovate sinuate toothed or angled leaves, and 

 solitary pale blue flowers on axillary and terminal peduncles. (Named after 

 the poet Nicander of Colophon.) 



N. pHYSALolDES, Gaertn. Waste grounds, near dwellings and old gar- 

 dens. (Adv. from Peru.) 



6. LYCIUM, L. MATRIMONY-VINE. 



Calyx 3 - 5-toothed or -cleft, not enlarging, persistent at the base of the berry. 

 Corolla funnel-form or salver-shaped, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated and not 

 plaited in the bud. Stamens 5 ; anthers opening lengthwise. Style slender ; 

 stigma capitate. Berry small, 2-celled. Shrubby, often spiny plants, with 

 alternate and entire small leaves, and mostly axillary small flowers. (Named 

 from the country, Lycia.) 



L. VULGARE, Dunal. ( COMMON M. ) Shrub with long sarmentose recurved- 

 drooping branches, smooth, sparingly if at all spiny ; leaves oblong- or spatu- 

 late-lanceolate, often fascicled, narrowed into a short petiole ; flowers on slender 

 peduncles fascicled in the axils ; corolla short funnel-form, greenish-purple ; 

 style and slender filaments equalling its lobes ; berry oval, orange-red. About 

 dwellings, and escaped into waste grounds in Penn., etc. (Adv. from Eu.) 



6. HYOSCYAMUS, Tourn. HENBANE. 



Calyx bell-shaped or urn-shaped, 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-form, oblique, with 

 a 5-lobed more or less unequal plaited border. Stamens declined. Capsule 



