496 SOLANACE.E cuscuta 



depressed-globose, capped with the marcescent corolla. On shrubs and, 

 tall herbs, eastern Oregon to the Eastern States. 



C. Californica Choisy Cusc. 183. Stems capillary, low: flowers rath- 

 er small and delicate, in loose cymes : lobes of the calyx acute : corolla 

 gamopetalous, campanulate its lanceolate-subulate lobes as long as the 

 campanulate tube or longer : scales none, or rudimentary : styles slender, 

 longer than the ovary : capsule depressed-globose. On Eriogonum etc. 

 southern Oregon to California. 



C. salina Engelm. Bot. Cal. i, 536. Stems slender, low: flowers white 

 delicate, short- pedicelled or clustered: calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 as long as the shallow-campanulate tube of the corolla : lobes of the corolla 

 ovate, acute, denticulate; scales fringed, mostly shorter than the tube, 

 sometimes incomplete : filaments about as long as the oval anthers : style 

 equalling or shorter than the ovary: capsule pointed, mostly 1-seeded, 

 surrounded by the marcescent corolla. In saline or brackish marshes 

 along the coast, Brit. Columbia to California. 



Order LXVII SOLANACE^ Pers. Syst. i, 214. 



Herbs shrubs or even trees with alternate or rarely opposite 

 leaves without stipules, watery juice and perfect regular or 

 nearly regular 4-5-inerous flowers in variously modified cymes; 

 the pedicels either not accompanied by bracts, or not in their 

 axils. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous. Corolla rotate, campan- 

 late, funnelform, salverform or tubular, mostly 5-lobed, the 

 lobes induplicate-valvate or plicate in the bud. Stamens as 

 many as lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, inserted 

 on the tube of the corolla : anthers 2-celled, dehiscent at the apex 

 or longitudinally. Ovary entire, normally 2-celled, with the 

 placentae in the axis, many-ovuled, surmounted by an undivided 

 style : stigmas entire or sometimes bilamellar. Ovules anatro- 

 pous. Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds numerous, the testa 

 sometimes roughened. Embryo terete, spirally curved or nearly 

 straight, in fleshy albumen, the cotyledons rarely much broad- 

 er than the radicle. 



Tribe i Corolla mostly short, with the limb plicate or valvate 

 in the bud. Stamens all peifect. Fruit berry-like, at least not 

 dehiscent, sometimes nearly dry. 



1 Solanum Calyx little or not at all enlarged in fruit: anthers longer 



than their filaments, connivent into a cone, or slightly connate; the 

 cells opening at the apex, or sometimes longitudinally. 



2 Physalis Calyx usually much enlarged in fruit : anthers unconnected 



and not connivent. 



Tribe ii Corolla mostly long with the limb either plicate or 

 imbricate in the bud. Stamens all perfect. Fruit a capsule. 



8 Datura Calyx prismatic or tubular, 5-tootbed, in ours at length cir- 

 cumscissile near the base: fruit a 4-valved mostly prickly capsule. 



Tribe hi Corolla usually long, with the limb induplicate-im- 

 bricate in the bud. Stamens all perfect. Fruit in ours capsular. 



