352 Solanaceae 



less so and broader; corolla 2-4 cm. broad, deep violet; style 

 glabrate or villous below ; fruit dark purple. 

 Santa Catalina Island. 



7. S. rostratum Dunal. Annual, erect, branching, 1-3 dm. 

 high, pubescent with long yellowish stellate hairs and armed 

 with long straight prickles; leaves pinnatifid; calyx densely 

 prickly, its lobes narrow, nearly half the length of the corolla and 

 enclosing the fruit; corolla about 2 cm. broad, yellow; anthers 

 linear-lanceolate, the lowest much longer and larger, with an 

 incurved beak. 



Occasional in waste places and along roadsides. Inglewood; Soldiers 

 Home; Santa Monica. Native of Texas. 



3. LYCIUM L. BOX-THORN. 



Shrubby, often spiny plants, with small alternate 

 entire leaves, and white, greenish or purple axillary or 

 terminal solitary or clustered flowers. Calyx campanu- 

 late, 3-5-lobed or 3-5-too.thed, not enlarged in fruit, per- 

 sistent at the base of the berry. Corolla funnelform, 

 salver-shaped or campanulate, the limb 5-lobed, the 

 lobes obtuse. Stamens 5 ; filaments filiform, sometimes 

 dilated at the base ; anther-sacs longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform ; stigma capitate or 

 2-lobed. Berry globose to oblong. 



1. L. Californicum Nutt. Glabrous ; stems slender, much 

 branched, about 6-12 dm. high; leaves thickish, 2-6 mm. long, 

 obovate or spatulate to nearly linear ; pedicels often nearly obso- 

 lete; corolla white, its tube about 3 mm. long, included in the 

 campanulate 4-toothed calyx, its limb rotate, 4-parted, scarcely 

 4 mm. broad. 



On bluffs near the sea. Redondo; Long Beach; Laguna. First collected 

 by Nuttall at San Diego. 



2. L. Richii Gray. Stem slender ; leaves narrowly spatulate, 

 2-4 cm. long; flowers short-pedicelled, 8-10 mm. long; calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate, nearly or quite equaling the corolla-tube ; corolla- 

 lobes oval, slightly exceeding the tube. 



A Mexican species reported from Santa Catalina Island. 



