POTATO FAMILY. Solanaceae. 
There are many kinds of Nicotiana, or Tobacco, chiefly 
American; acrid, narcotic herbs or shrubs, usually sticky- 
hairy; leaves large, toothless; corolla funnel-form or salver- 
form, with a long tube and spreading border, plaited in the 
bud; stamens with threadlike filaments and broad anthers, 
not protruding; capsule smooth, containing numerous 
small seeds. The name is in honor of Nicot, diplomat and 
author of the first French dictionary, who sent some of 
these plants to Catherine de’ Medici from Portugal in 1560. 
se A very slender, loosely-branching ever- 
Paths Tisbiation green shrub, from six to fifteen feet high, 
Nicotiana glauca With graceful, swaying branches and 
Yellow smooth, thick leaves, with a “bloom,” 
Sosa the lower leaves eight inches long. The 
Southwest : 
flowers are nearly two inches long, green- 
ish at first and then becoming a rather pretty shade of 
warm dull-yellow, and hang in graceful clusters trom the 
ends of the branches. The calyx is unequally five-toothed, 
the tube of the corolla downy on the outside; the anthers 
whitish; the ovary on a yellowish disk, with a long style 
and two-lobed stigma, and the capsu.e oblong, half an 
inch long. This was introduced into California from South 
America about fifty years ago and is now common in waste 
places and cultivated valleys. 
There are many kinds of Lycium, shrubs or woody 
vines, named for the country Lycia. 
An odd-looking desert shrub, everything 
Desert . F 
a about it so closely crowded as to give a 
L’cium Cooperi Queer bunchy and clumsy effect. It is 
be three or four feet high, with thick, dark 
aeons. 2 gray, gnarled, woody branches, crowded 
with tufts of small, dull, light green leaves, 
which are thickish, stiffish, obscurely downy and toothless, 
and mingled with close little bunches of flowers. The 
flowers are about half an inch long, with a large, yellowish, 
hairy calyx, with five lobes, a white corolla, which is 
slightly hairy outside, with five lobes and a narrow, green- 
ish tube, and pale yellow anthers, not protruding. They 
are rather pretty near by, but the appearance of the whole 
shrub is too pale to be effective. The familiar Matrimony 
Vine of old-fashioned gardens belongs to this genus. . 
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