168 SOLANACEAE. Vor. III. 
1. Lycopersicon Lycopérsicon (L.) 
Karst. Tomato. Love Apple. 
Cherry Tomato. Fig. 3726. 
Solanum Lycopersicum L. Sp. Pl. 185. 1753. 
L. esculentum Mill. Gard. Dict, Ed. 8. 1768. 
Lycopersicum Lycopersicum Karst. Deutsch. Fl, 
966. 1880-83. 
Viscid-pubescent, much branched, 1°-3 
high, the branches spreading. Leaves peti- 
oled, pinnately divided, 6-18’ long, the seg- 
ments stalked, the larger 7-9, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, mostly acute, dentate, lobed or 
again divided, 2’-4° long, with several or 
numerous smaller, sometimes very small ones 
interspersed; clusters several-flowered; pe- 
duncles 1-3’ long; flowers 5-8” broad ; calyx- 
segments about equalling the corolla; berry 
the well-known tomato or love-apple. 
Escaped from cultivation and _ occasionally 
spontaneous from New York and Pennsylvania 
southward. Jews’ ear. June-Sept. 
8. LYCIUM L. Sp. Pl. 191. 1753. 
Shrubs, or woody vines, often spiny, with small alternate entire leaves, commonly with 
smaller ones fascicled in their axils, and white greenish or purple, axillary or terminal, soli- 
tary or clustered flowers. Calyx campanulate, 3-5-lobed or -toothed, not enlarged in fruit, 
persistent at the base of the berry. Corolla funnelform, salverform, or campanulate, the tube 
short or slender, the limb 5-lobed (rarely 4-lobed), the lobes obtuse. Stamens 5 (rarely 4), 
exserted, or included; filaments filiform, sometimes dilated at the base; anther-sacs longi- 
tudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Berry glo- 
bose, ovoid, or oblong. [Named from the country Lycia.] 
About 75 species, widely distributed in temperate and warm regions. Besides the following, 
introduced from Europe, some 17 native species occur in the western parts of North America. Type 
species: Lycium afreum L. 
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1. Lycium halimifélium Mill. Matrimony Vine. Box-thorn. Fig. 3727. 
Lycium halimifolium Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, no. 6. 1768. 
aes so ata var. vulgare Ait. f. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 
Beran vulgare Dunal in DC. Prodr.13: Part 1,509. 1852. 
Glabrous, spiny or unarmed; stems slender, climb- 
ing or trailing, branched, 6°-25° long, the branches 
somewhat angled, the spines, when present, slender, 
about 4’ long. Leaves lanceolate, oblong, or spatu- 
late, acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed into short 
petioles, firm, 4’-13’ long, 2’-4” wide; flowers 2-5 
together in the axils, or solitary; peduncles filiform, 
spreading, 6-12” long; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, or 
obtuse, 14” long; corolla funnelform, purplish chang- 
ing to greenish, 4’-6” broad, its lobes ovate-oblong ; 
stamens slightly exserted; berry oval, orange-red. 
In thickets and waste places, escaped from gardens, 
Ontario to Virginia, Minnesota and Kansas. Introduced 
from Europe. Bastard jessamine. Jasmine. Jackson-vine. 
May-Aug. 
9. HYOSCYAMUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. Pl. 179. 1753. 
Erect coarse viscid-pubescent narcotic annual biennial or perennial herbs, with alternate 
mostly lobed or pinnatifid leaves, and large nearly regular flowers, the lower solitary in the 
axils, the upper in a more or less 1-sided spike or raceme. Calyx urn-shaped or narrowly 
campanulate, 5-cleft, striate, enlarged and enclosing the capsule in fruit. Corolla funnel- 
form, the limb somewhat oblique, 5-cleft, the lobes more or less unequal, spreading. Stamens 
declined, mostly exserted; filaments filiform; anthers oblong or ovate, their sacs longitudi- 
