74 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



Order LIX.— SOLANACEiE. 



Flowers regular, in axillary or supra-axillary cymes; 

 calyx 5 -cleft, persistent, often enlarged in fruit; corolla 

 5-lobed ; stamens 5, epipetalous ; ovary 2- or incompletely 

 4-celIed ; seeds small, very numerous ; fruit a berry or 

 capsule. A large order, chiefly tropical, with very 

 poisonous properties ; no alpine species. 



I. SOLANUM, Tourn. 



Flowers solitary or in cymes ; corolla rotate ; anthers 

 connate, opening by terminal pores ; fruit a 2-celled berry. 



6'. Dulcamara, L., Bitter-Sweet ; flowers violet, with 

 large yellow anthers, in cymes opposite the leaves, stem 

 weak, scrambling, berry red; hedges, common. S. 

 nigrum, L. (including miniatum, Bernh., and humile, 

 Mill.), an annual weed with small white flowers, and 

 black, yellow, or red berry. 5. villosum, Lam. ; flowers 

 larger, white, leaves pubescent, berry greenish-yellow; 

 cultivated land. 



2. Physalis, L. 



Flowers solitary; corolla rotate; calyx enlarged after 

 flowering, and enveloping the 2-celled berry as a bladder. 



P. Alkekengi, L., Winter Cherry; flowers pendant, 

 solitary or in pairs, dirty white, envelope of berry at 

 length red ; hedges ; Switzerland, Jura, Pyrenees. 



3. Atropa, L. 



Flowers large, solitary or few, campanulate; stamens 

 distinct ; fruit a 2-celled berry ; leaves entire. 



