290 SUMMER FLOWERS. 



almost prickly lobes; corolla lurid-yellow, with purplish 

 veins. Waste, stony places, roadsides, etc. Fl. July. 



(210) Solanum. 



S. Dulcamara : stem shrubby at the base, with straggling 

 branches; leaves stalked, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, broadly 

 cordate at the base, entire, or sometimes with an additional 

 smaller segment on one or both sides, glabrous or downy; 

 flowers small, purple, with yellow anthers, in loose cymes, on 

 lateral peduncles shorter than the leaves ; berries small, ovoid, 

 red. Bitter-sweet. Hedges and thickets. FL June, July. 



S. nigrum: annual; stems erect, about a foot high, with 

 spreading branches, glabrous or nearly so; leaves stalked, 

 ovate with coarse angular teeth ; flowers small, white, in con- 

 tracted cymes on short, lateral peduncles ; berries small, glo- 

 bular, black. A common weed of cultivation. FL June to 

 September. 



(211) Atropa. DEADLY NIGHTSHADE. 



A. Belladonna : stems stout, erect, branching, glabrous or 

 slightly downy, three feet high ; leaves stalked, large, ovate, 

 entire, with a smaller one usually proceeding from the same 

 point ; flowers solitary, in the forks of the stem, and in the 

 axils of the leaves, lurid purple ; berry large, globular, shining 

 black, surrounded by the leafy calyx-lobes. Dwale. Waste 

 stony places. FL June to August. 



(212) Echium. VIPER'S BUQLOSS. 



E. vulgare : biennial ; stems erect, 1-2 feet high, with stiff, 

 almost prickly hairs ; leaves lanceolate, stalked, those of the 



