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»n tvery pari ■.; pedicels half an inch to an inch long. Calyx-segments lincar-lau- 

 ceoibte. Corolla greenish white with a tinge of purple (sometimes bright yellow). 

 Sta lent unequal ; filaments all hairy. 



Hab Pastures, and road sides: frequent. FL June— July. Ft. August. 



Ois. The variety with yellow flowers, though very common near Philadelphia, 

 ifl cmparatively rare in Chester County. It is on the increase, however, and will 

 doubtless soon become common. This species, also, is believed to be introduced. 

 One or two others are enumerated in the U. States. 



f f Fruit a Berry. 



105. LYCIUM. L. jXutt. Gen. 147. 



[So named from Lycia ; the native country of one species.] 



CalfX short, 2 to 5-cleft. Corolla tubular ; limb mostly 5-lobed, spread 

 ing ; throat closed by the beard of the filaments. Stamens 4 or 5, ex- 

 serteil. Berry 2-celIed. Seeds several, reniform. 



Shrubs : often spiuosc, with the branches pungently terminated: leaves alter- 

 nate, sometimes fasciculate .'flowers axillary, solitary, or in pairs. Kat. Ord. 213, 

 Lindt, Solane.k. 



1. L barbahum, L. Subspinose ; branches elongated, pendulous; 

 haves lanceolate, unequal, often clustered ; calyx mostly 3-cleft. IVilld. 

 Sf. I. p. 1059. 



Barbarous Lycium. Vulg-o — Matrimony vine. Bastard Jasmine. 



Ro9t perennial. Stem 10 to 15 or 20 feet long, slender, procumbent or nodding 

 Ifnottupported, much branched; branches of a greyish ash color, long, flaccid. 

 pendUous, with Bub6pinose rudiments, or indurated points, at the axils, or base of 

 the leaves. Leaves 1 to 3 inches long, and one third of an inch to an inch wide, 

 varying from lanceolate and acute to obovate-lanceolate and obtuse, sometime* 

 linear-oblong, entire, smooth, tapering at base to a petiole about half an inch long. 

 Velar.. Us slender , about an inch long, often 2 or 4 together. Calyx about on* 

 fourth the length of the corolla, persistent,- segments mostly 3 (sometimes 2), ovate* 

 erect. Corolla greenish purple; limb 5-lobed. Stamens 5; filaments bearded 

 near the base, so as to close the throat of the corolla. Style as long as the stamen*; 

 stigma capitate. Berry oval, or ovoid, orange red when mature. 



Hab. About houses, and gardens : frequent. Fl. June— Sept. Fr* July-Oc*©. 



Obs This straggling, limber-branched, half-vine kind of shrub, has been intro- 

 duced and is so difficult to destroy, when once established, that it is something wi 

 a nuisance, in many places. There is another species in the Southern Statu. 



106. SOLANUM. L. JAitt. Cm. 196. 



[A name of obscure and uncertain etymology.] 



Calyx 5 to 10-parted, persistent. Corolla rotate, or subcampanuiate ; 

 limb plicate, mostly 5-lobed. jlnthers erect, slightly cohering, or con- 

 nivent, opening at the top by 2 pores. Berry 2 to 6-celled, sub-gl#- 

 kos-3, or depressed and torosc. Seeds numerous. 



Hcrbjceousy or fruticose: unarmed or aculeate; leaves sometimes in {airs, 

 s-'iint'limes pseudo-pinnate with a terminal odd leaflet, sometimes simple; p*di:fi- 

 < Ic8 solitary or several, one or many-flowered, extra-axillary, scattered, or i*rmi- 

 tafc A«J. Ord. 213. LinJL SoLAOTJB. 



