232 55. SOLANACE^E. 



A 



ii. Fugaces. Col. of fruit not shorter than its stalk. 



7. M. collina (Hoffm.); fr.-cal. open and ventricose as long 

 as the diverging pedicels, tube with spreading hooked bristles, 

 cor. -limb shorter than tube concave, style about equalling \ cal., 

 clusters stalked usually with 1 distant flower, hairs on the 1. 

 straight. E. B. 2558. St. 42. 11. M. hispida Koch. Usually 

 slender, erect ; or caespitose with prostrate branches. L. oblong, 

 obtuse, lower obovate, with straight silky hairs on both sides. 

 Fl. small, blue. [M . stricta Link, M. arvensis (R.) St. 42. 14. 

 has its fr.-cal. closed, very short pedicels, sessile clusters leafy 

 below. Probably a native of Britain.] Dry banks. A. IV. V. 



8. M. versicolor (Ehrh.); fr.-cal. closed and oblong longer 

 than the ascending pedicels, tube with spreading hooked bristles, 

 cor.-limb shorter than tube concave, style equalling cal., clusters 

 stalked. E. B. 480. (left fig.) St. 42. 12. L. narrow, oblong, 

 acutish ; upper ones frequently opposite. Fl. small, at first pale 

 yellow, afterwards blue. On plants inhabiting damp places the 

 fl. are at first white and the cal. is "less deeply divided.'* Mea- 

 dows and banks. A. V. VI. 



Order LV. SOLANACE^E. 



Cal. inferior, 5- rarely 4 -parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, 

 regular or slightly irregular, 5-cleft, deciduous, plicate in aestiva- 

 tion ; aestivation of lobes imbricate or imbricate-plicate (in Sola- 

 num valvate). Stam. 4 5, inserted on the cor., alternate with 

 the lobes. Ovary 1 2- or 4-celled. Stigma simple, rarely 

 lobed. Pericarp 1 2- or 4-celled. Seeds many. Embryo 

 usually curved, in fleshy albumen, often not in the axis. Figures 

 of the genera are in G. F. G. Gam. i. 



Tribe I. SOLANEJE. Cor. rotate, lobes nearly regular and 

 equal with a valvate aestivation. Anth. opening by pores. 



1. SOLANUM. Cor.-limb 5-cleft, reflexed. Anth. erect, con- 

 nivent. Berry roundish with 2 or more cells. 



Tr. II. ATROPEJE. Cor. tubular; tube plicate in bud; lobes 

 slightly unequal with an imbricate aestivation. Anth. open- 

 ing longitudinally at the margin. 



2. ATROPA. Cor. bellshaped with 5 equal lobes. Stam. di- 

 stant above. Berry globose, 2-celled. 



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

 5 unequal obtuse lobes. Stigma capitate. Caps. 2-celled, 

 ventricose below, furrowed, opening transversely by a con- 

 vex lid. 



