252 55. SOIANACE^. 



6. M. arven'sis (Lehm.) ; cal. half-S-eleft closed with fruit, 

 tute with spreading hooked bristles, pedicels divergent, cor.- 

 limb equalling tube concave, cor.-lobes entire, stj/le very short, 

 racemes stalked. — E. B. S. 2629. M. intermedia Link. — L. 

 oblong, acute ; lower 1. oblong-obovate, blunt. Fl. usually 

 small. A large-flowered (/3. iimbrosd) plant found in shade is 

 often taken for M. sylvatica. — Cultivated land and thickets. 



A. VI.— VIII. E. S. I. 



ii. Fugaces. Cal. of fruit not shorter than its stalk, its tube 

 with spreading hooked bristles. 



7. M. coltina (Hoifm.) ; fr.-cal. open and ventricose as long as 

 the diverging pedicels, cor.-limb shorter than exserted tube con- 

 cave, sti/le about equalling ^ cal., racemes stalked usually with 1 

 distant flower, fr.-pe'dicels spreading, hairs on the 1. straight. — 



B. B. 2558. St. 42. 11. M. hispida Koch.— Usually slender, 

 erect ; or ceespitose with prostrate branches. L. oblong, blunt ; 

 lower obovate. Fl. small, unchangeably bltie. — [M. stricta Link, 

 M. arvensis (E.) St. 42. 14, has its fr.-cal. closed, very short ad- 

 pressed fr. -pedicels, sessile racemes leafy below. Lowest fr.- 

 ped. not I as long as calyx. Probably a native of Britain.] — ■ 

 Dry banks. A. IV.V. E. S. L 



8. M. versicolor (Reich.) ; fr.-cal. closed oblong hellshaped 

 longer than the ascending pedicels, cor.-limb much shorter than 

 tube concave, style eqwilling cal., racemes stalked. — E. B. 480. 

 — St. erect, simple at the base. L. narrow, oblong, acutish ; 

 upper ones frequently opposite. Fl. small, at flrst pale yellow, 

 afterwards blue. Lobes of fr.-cal. often erect, therefore cal. not 

 truly closed. — On plants in damp places the fl. are at first white 

 and the cal. is "less deeply divided;" sometimes the whole 

 plant is yellowish and the fl. yellow.— Meadows and banks. 

 A. V. VI. E. S. I. 



Order LV. SOLANACE.^. 



Cal. inferior, 5-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, regular 

 or slightly irregular, S-cleft, deciduous, plicate in bud ; the lobes 

 imbricate or imbrioate-plicate (in Solanum valvate). Stara. 

 4 — 5, inserted on the cor., alternate with the lobes. Ovary 

 1 — 2- or imperfectly 4-celled. Fr. a berry or capsule. Seeds 

 many. Embryo usually curved, in fleshy albumen, often not in 

 the axis. — No stipules. 



Tribe I. 80LANEJE. Cor. rotate ; lobes nearly regular and 

 eciual, valvate in the bud. Anth. opening by pores. 



1. Solanum. Cor.-limb 5-cleft, refiexed. Anth. erect con- 

 nivent. Berry roundish with 2 or more cells. 



