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*- - *- Sepals 5 and distinct, subtended by 2 or more sepal-like bracts. 



C. compdcta, Juss. On shrubs, Ont., S. and W.; bracts (3-6) and 

 sepals round and appressed ; tube of the corolla cylindrical. 



C. glomerita, Choisy. On Golden Rods and other coarse Compositae, 

 from Ohio, W. and S.; the numerous oblong, scarious bracts closely im- 

 bricated with recurving tips ; sepals similar, shorter than the cylindra- 

 ceous tube of the corolla. 



LXXX. SOLANACKffi, NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 



Plants with rank-scented herbage (this and the fruit more 

 commonly narcotic-poisonous), colorless juice, alternate leaves 

 (but apt to be in pairs and unequal), regular flowers (on bract- 

 less pedicels) with the parts usually in fives (stamens 4 in 

 Brunfelsia, and 1 or more of them rudimentary in some other 

 genera), but the ovary mostly 2-celled, the many-seeded pla- 

 centae in the axis. The seeds have a slender, usually curved 

 embryo, in fleshy albumen. (Lessons, Figs. 50, 51.) The 

 order runs into Scrophulariaceee, which a few species approach 

 in a somewhat irregular corolla, but their stamens are as many 

 as the lobes (except Nos. 9 and 15-17) . Mostly herbs. 



Fruit a fleshy (or in No. 5, dryish") berry. 



+- Corolla wheel-shaped, lobed or parted into 5 or sometimes more divisions, plaited 

 and valvate or the margins turned inwards in the bud; the tube very short ; 

 anthers conniving around the style. 



1. LTCOPERSICUM. Like Solanum, except that the anthers are united by a membrane 



at their tips and the cells open lengthwise. Leaves pinnately compound. 



2. SOLANUM. Stamens with anthers equaling or mostly longer than the very short fila- 



ments, usually not united, the cells opening by a hole at the apex. (Lessons, Figs. 

 252, 253.) Leaves simple or pinnate. 



3. CAPSICUM. Stamens with slender filaments much longer than the short and separate 



commonly heart-shaped anthers, their cells opening lengthwise. Berry sometimes 

 dryish and inflated, then becoming 1-celled. 



+- +- Corolla between wheel-shaped and funnel-form, plaited in the bud, the border very 

 moderately if at all lobed ; anthers separate, opening lengthicise ; calyx blad- 

 dery-inflated after flowering, inclosing the globular berry. 



4. PHYSALIS. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla mostly somewhat 5-lobed. Stamens erect. Fruit 



a juicy, often edible, 2-celled berry. 



5. NICANDRA. Calyx 5-parted and angled, the divisions somewhat arrow-shaped. 



Corolla with widely-spreading border almost entire. Fruit a dryish 3-5-celled berry. 



*-*-+- Corolla bell-shaped, funnel-form, tubular, or salver- shaped ; anthers separate 

 opening lengthimse ; calyx not bladdery-inflated. 



++ Stamens normally 5 (exception sometimes in No. 8). 

 Calyx 5-parted to near the base, the lobes leafy. 



6. ATROPA. Calyx with ovate divisions, in fruit enlarging and spreading under the glo- 



bose purple berry. Corolla between bell-shaped and funnel-form, with 5 triangular- 

 ovate lobes. Stamens and style somewhat declined, slender. 



