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3. HYOSCYAMUS. Cor. funnelshaped with a short tube and 

 5 unequal blunt lobes. Stigma capitate. Fr. a dry 2-celled 

 caps., ventricose below, farrowed, opening transversely by a 

 convex lid. 



[LYCIUM. Cal. small and adpressed to base of fruit. Cor. 

 funnelshaped with a short tube and 5 equal patent lobes. 

 Stam. exserted. Fr. a 2-celled berry.] 



4. DATURA. Cor. funnelshaped, angular, 5-lobed. Cal. de^ 

 ciduous. Stigma 2-lobed. Caps. 4-valved, ivith 2 partially 

 bipartite cells. 



Tribe I. Solanea. 

 1. SOLA'NUM Linn. Nightshade. 



1. S. nigrum (L.) ; st. herbaceous with tubercled angles, 1. ovate 

 bluntly dentate or wavy, fl. drooping. St. I. 4. Umbel from 

 the intermediate spaces between the leaves. L. attenuate below. 

 El. white. Fr.-stalks thickened upwards. Berries globular. 

 St. a foot or more high. a ; hairs incurved upwards, 1. sinuate, 

 berry black. Sy. E. B. 931. [3. s. ochroleucum (Bast.) ; 1. sinuate- 

 dentate, berries yellowish-green.] y. S. miniatum (Bernh.) ; angles 

 of the st. with prominent tubercles, 1. sinuate- dentate more deeply 

 toothed, pubescence patent, berries scarlet. Sy. E. B. 932. It 

 may be distinct. Waste ground, y. Kent, Jersey, [&c.~]. 

 A. VII. X. Black Nightshade. E. S. I. - 



2. 8. Dulcamara (L.) ; st. shrubby, zigzag, 1. cordate-ovate, 

 upper 1. hastate auricled, fl. drooping. E. B. 565. St. 18. 3. 

 Corymb opposite to leaves. Fl. purple with 2 green spots at 

 the base of each segment. Berries ovate, red [rarely greenish- 

 yellow]. St. climbing to the height of 12 14 feet, nearly round, 

 almost glabrous throughout, or (S. littorale Kaab) st. and 1. 

 downy with patent hairs. ft. marinum (Bab.) ; branches of the 

 present year and 1. fleshy and usually clothed with hairs incurved 

 upwards, st. angular prostrate diffuse much branched, 1. nearly 

 all cordate not hastate. S. lignosum seu Dulcamara marina 

 Ray 265. Woods and hedges, common, ft. Pebbly sea-beach. 

 Sh. VI. VII. Bittersweet. E.S.I. 



Tribe II. Atropea. 



2. AT'ROPA Linn. Deadly Nightshade. Dwale. 

 1. A. Belladon'na (L.); st. herbaceous, 1. broadly ovate- 



