472 BOTANY. 



rower, acute or acuminate, erect or spreading; scales wanting or more or less developed ; capsule envel- 

 oped in the corolla. — Quite variable. See page 273. 



• ' Sepals united ; ovary and capsule witli the walla thickened above, more or less conic, 

 (a.) Flowers subsessile, paniculate-glomerate ; withered corolla capping the 1-2-seeded capsule. 



10. C. 8UBINCLUSA, Dur. & Hilg. Flowers 2-3" long, forming large clusters ; calyx deeply cleft, the 

 lobes acutish, imbricate ; corolla-lobes ovate, acute, shorter than the slender tube ; scales oblong, deeply 

 fringed ; styles slender ; ovary 2-pointed ; capsule oval. — S. and Central California. 



(6.) Flowers pedicelled, in rather loose paniculate cymes, often, becoming crowded ; corolla-lobes 

 acute or rarely obtuse, Inflesed ; styles unequal ; capsule enveloped in the corolla. 



11. C. DECORA, Chois. Flowers 1" long or more, white, often papillose ; calyx-lobes ovate or lanceo- 

 late, acute ; corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate ; scales large, broad-oval ; styles usually stout. — Variable. 

 Florida and from Illinois to Texas, the Indian Territory, New Mexico and Sonora. 



12. C. I.VFLKXA, Eug. Flowers 1" long, like the last but with deeper suboylindric mostly 4-parted 

 corollas, at last only capping the capsule ; lobes erect ; scales minute ; styles divaricate. — Virginia to 

 Georgia ; Illinois to Arkansas, Kansas and the Upper Missouri. 



(c.) Inflorescence as in the last ; corolla-lobes obtuse, not incurved ; withered corolla surrounding 

 the base of the capsule. 



13. C. 6RO^ro VII, Will d. Flowers 1:J-1|" long ; corolla-tube deeply carapanulate, lobes ilat, spread- 

 ing ; scales large, oval, much fringed. — Variable. Canada to Florida and west to Missouri, Arkansas and 

 Texas. Var. (?) cukta, Eng. With very short bifid or truncate appressed scales ; corolla capping the 

 large oval capsule. — N. W. America. 



14. C. KOSTEATA, Shutt. Near the last ; flowers 2-3" long, wider ; scales rather small, deeply 

 fringed ; ovary elongated, bottle-shaped ; capsule, with the elongated 2-pointed beak, 2^-3" long.— Mary- 

 laud to S. Carolina. 



* ' ' Sepals free, similar to the surrounding sterile bracts, imbricate ; ovary and capsule more or less 

 conic, thickened and fleshy at the apex ; capsule capped with the corolla. 

 (a.) Flowers pedicelled, loosely panicled. 



15. C. CUSPIDATA, Eng. Flowers about 2" long ; upper bracts and the sepals ovate or orbicular, cus- 

 pidate or obtuse. — From Texas and New Mexico to the Platte. 



(J.) Flowers closely sessile, crowded in compact often continuous clusters. 



16. C. 8QUAMATA, Eng. Stems filiform, orange-yellow; clusters 2-12-flowered; flowers 2i" long; 

 the 2-5 membranous bracts broad-ovate, cuspidate, appressed ; sepals longer, more obtuse ; scales ovate, 

 fimbriate ; styles capillary, exserted ; capsule ovate, apiculate, 1-2-seeded. — W. Texas. 



17. C. GLOMEKATA, Chois. Clusters in two parallel continuous spiral lines, 6-10" thick; flowers 

 2i-3" long, often sterile ; bracts numerous, squarrose ; corolla-lobes obtuse.— From Ohio to Kansas and 

 southward to W. Texas ; mostly on Composite, 



18. C. COMPACTA, Juss. Mostly on shrubs ; fruiting clusters often 1-2' in diameter; bracts (3-5) and 

 sepals appressed, orbicular,— From N. New York to Georgia and Alabama, and the Var. adpeessa west- 

 ward to Missouri and Texas. 



§ 3. MONOGYNELLA, Eng. Styles united nearly to the apex, (or entirely,) thick and compressed ; 

 stigmas capitate ; anthers sessiie, (or nearly so ;) capsule regularly circumscissile, usually 2-8eeded.— 

 Stems thick, growing on woody plants ; flowers sessile or short-pedicelled, bracteate, spicate-panl- 

 cled ; capsule capped witli the withered corolla. 



19. C. exaltata, Eng. Lobes of the globose calyx nearly distinct, orbicular, concave, imbricate, 

 verrucose in the middle, equaling the cylindric corolla-tube ; corolla-lobes orbicular, imbricate, much 

 shorter than the tube, erect or subspreading; anthers cordate-orbicular; scales 2-parted, dentate, short.— 

 Flowers 2" long ; capsule 3-5" long ; seeds IJ" long or more. W. Texas and Mexico. 



LYCIUM. 



The North American species, as arranged by Dr, Gray in the Proc. Amer. Acad., Vol. VI, pp. 45-48 

 (1862,) with the addition of the more recent species. 



} 1. Flowers large ; corolla funnelform-tubular, 9-10" long, greenish : calyx loosely campanulate, 

 5-cleft at least to the middle, with subfoliaoeous spreading lobes ; anthers deoiduously mucronate. 

 Glabrous. 



