NICHTSHADR FAMILY 35 I 



*2. Lvciu^r, represented by L. cliinaise (The Duke of Argyll's 

 Tea-tree), an Asiatic shrub naturahsed in many places, especially 

 near the sea, straggling, with long, pendulous and sometimes 

 spinous branches; fleshy, glabrous, lanceolate leaves; purple, funnel- 

 shaped //oicen- with a short corolla-tube, green throat, and black 

 honey-guides : and red, berry -like fruit. Suggested as a substi- 

 tute for tea. — Fl. |une — August. I'erennial.i 



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3. Atropa (Deadly Nightshade), represeiited by one species, 

 A. Belladonna, a stout, branched, erect, herbaceous plant, 3 — 4 

 feet high, with runners ; leaves large, stalked** ovate, acute, gener- 

 ally in unequal pairs; lioweys solitary, axillary, drooping, bell-shaped, 

 lurid purple ; <-(7/v.v leafy, persistent ; jniit globose black, pol- 

 ished, resembhng a cherry, but for the persistent calyx.— Old 

 quarries and among ruins, especially on chalk and limestone soil ; 



