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produced in great profusion in May or June. This charming 

 little shrub is a native of South Chili, and will, therefore, need 

 protection in very severe weather, even in the South of England. 



2. LtCIUM. 



Deciduous climbing or trailing often spiny shrubs. Leaves 

 simple, entire. Flowers small. Calyx tubular, 5 - lobed. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens 5. Fruit baccate, enclosed 

 in the calyx-tube. The species are from the Mediterranean 

 region, Cape of Good Hope, Eastern Asia, and tropical America. 

 A classical name applied to a thorny shrub. 



1. L. Bdrbarum. Box Thorn or Tea Tree. This is the 

 shrub so commonly seen covering cottage porches with long 

 slender flexible shoots, small linear-lanceolate or oblong entire 

 leaves, and small lilac or violet flowers followed by scarlet or 

 orange berries. 



L. Europceum is a spiny shrub with linear spathulate leaves 

 and pink or reddish flowers. L. Chinense is very near L. Bdr- 

 barum, but the tube of the corolla is shorter and constricted 

 in the middle. 



Desfontdinia spinosa is a shrub of disputed affinity, with 

 alternate coriaceous spinose - dentate Holly -like leaves and 

 scarlet and yellow trumpet-shaped pendent flowers. It is a 

 native of Chili, and therefore rather tender. D. Hook&ri and 

 D. Chilensis are probably varieties of the same species. 



3. SOLiNTJM. 



This genus includes more than half of the species belonging 

 to the order. They are rare in temperate climates, but abound 

 in the tropics and especially in tropical America. They vary 

 from small annuals to trees of considerable size. Leaves 

 various. Flowers in terminal or extra-axillary cymes. Corolla 

 rotate or campanulate. Stamens 5 ; anthers large, connivent, 

 opening by terminal pores. Fruit a many-seeded berry. The 

 derivation of the name has not been satisfactorily explained. 

 There are two species found in this country, at least in the 

 southern portion. S. Dulcamara, Bitter Sweet, a perennial of 

 trailing or climbing habit with long flexuous stems, ovate-cordate 

 often lobed leaves, and large clusters of purple flowers with 

 yellow conspicuous anthers succeeded by scarlet berries. There 

 is a variety of this with variegated foliage. S. nlgrum is 

 neither so common nor so showy a plant. It is an erect annual 



