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LYCIUM 



Lycium barbarum [so-called, but in reality Lycium 

 chinense, Mill.], misnamed the "Tea Tree" (Fig. 113). 

 Naturalised near Cambridge and elsewhere. A shrub 

 about 4 — i) feet high, formerly planted under the name 

 of Tea Tree but with no alliance to true Tea. 



Fig. 113. Lycium chinense (so-called L. bnrbarum). a, dowering 

 shoot (\). h, flower, c, fruit, d, labiate calyx, e, five-toothed calyx 

 (Dobuer and Nobbe). 



CJ CJ Snb-sknib with tinigs and branches devoid 

 of spines; leaves displaced; floivers violet- 

 blue ; bemes red. 



Solanurii Dalcaniava, L. Bittersweet. Occasionally a 

 partial twiner (see p. 222). 



