224 55. SOLANACEA. 
flowered plant found in shade is often taken for M. sylvatica.— 
Cultivated land and thickets. A. VI—VIII. Field Scorpion- 
grass. 
ii. Fugaces. Cal. of fruit not shorter than its stalk. 
7. M. collina (Hoffm.); cal. open and ventricose when in fruit 
as long as the diverging pedicels, tube with spreading hooked 
bristles, limb of the cor. shorter than the tube concave, style 
about 4 as long as cal., clusters stalked usually with 1 distant 
flower, hairs on the 1. straight.—£. B. 2558. St.42.11. M. his- 
pida Koch.—L. oblong, obtuse, lower obovate, with straight 
silky hairs on both sides. Fl. small, blue—[M. stricta Link, M. 
arvensis (R.) St. 42. 14. has its cal. closed in fruit with very short 
pedicels, sessile clusters leafy below. It is probably a native of 
Britain and will reward some careful observer.]—Dry banks. 
A. IV. V. 
8. M. versicolor (Ehrh.); cal. closed and oblong when in fruit 
longer than the ascending pedicels, tube with spreading hooked 
bristles, limb of the cor. shorter than the tube concave, style as 
long as cal., clusters stalked. —E. B. 480. (left fig.) St. 42. 12.— 
L. narrow, oblong, acutish, upper ones frequently opposite. Fl. 
small, at first pale yellow, afterwards blue.—In a plant inhabit- 
ing damp places the fl. are at first white and the cal. is “less deeply 
divided.”—Meadows and banks. A. V. VI. 
Order LV. SOLANACEA. 
Cal. inferior, 5- rarely 4-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, 
regular or slightly irregular, 5-cleft, deciduous, plicate in xstiva- 
tion ; estivation of lobes imbricate or imbricate-plicate (in Sola- 
num valvate). Stam. 4—5, inserted on the cor., alternate with 
the lobes. Ovary 1—2- or 4-celled. Stigma simple, rarely 
lobed. Pericarp 1—2- or 4-celled. Seeds numerous. Embryo 
usually curved, in fleshy albumen, often not in the axis—Figures 
of the genera are in G. F. G. Gam. 1. 
Tribe I. SOLANEA. Cor. rotate, lobes nearly regular and 
equal with a valvate estivation. Anth. opening by pores. 
1. Sotanum. Cor.-limb 5-cleft, refleced. Anth. erect, con- 
nivent. Berry roundish with 2 or more cells. 
Tr. Il. ATROPEA. Cor. tubular; tube plicate in bud; lobes 
slightly unequal with an imbricate zstivation. Anth. open- 
ing longitudinally at the margin. 
2. Arropa. Cor. bellshaped with 5 equal lobes. Stam. di- 
stant above. Berry globose, 2-celled. 
