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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. LYCIUM. 
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. Barbarum. 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. Européum is a spiny shrub with linear spathulate leaves 
and pink or reddish flowers. JL. Chinénse is very near L. Bar- 
barum, but the tube of the corolla is shorter and constricted 
in the middle. 
Desfontéinia 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. Hodkert and 
D. Chilénsis are probably varieties of the same species. 
3. SOLANUM. ‘ 
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. nigrum is 
neither so common nor so showy a plant. It is an erect annual 
