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55. SOLANACE.S. 
exserted tube concave, style about equalling i cal., racemes 
stalked usually with 1 distant flower, fr.-pedicels spreading, 
hairs on the 1. straight. — E. B. 2558. St. 42. 11. M. hispida 
(Schlecht.), M. arveims (Hill em. Lehm.). — Usually slender, 
erect ; or csespitose with prostrate branches. L. oblong, 
blunt ; lower obovate. Fl. small, unchangeably blue. — /3. 
Mittenii (Baker). Fl. pale, lowest bracteate. — [J/, stricta 
(Link.), J/. arvensi.< (Hill em. Rchb.) St. 42. 14, has its fr.-cal. 
closed, very short adpressed fr.-pedicels, sessile racemes leafy 
below. Lowest fr.-ped. not ^ as long as calyx. Probably a 
native of Britain.]— Dry ban&. A. IV. V. E. S. I. 
8. M. versicolor (Sm.) ; fr.-cal. closed oblong bellshaped 
longer than the ascending pedicels, cor.-limb much shorter than 
tube concave, sti/le equalling cal., racemes stalked. — E. B. 480. 
— St. erect, simple at the base. L. narrow, oblong, acutish ; 
upper ones frequently opposite. Fl. small, at first paJ.e yellow, 
aftervards blue. Lobes of fr.-cal. often erect, therefore cal. 
not truly closed. — On plants in damp places the fl. are at first 
white and the cal. is " less deeply divided : sometimes the fl. 
are all yellow, J/. Balbisiana (Jord.). — Meadows and banks. 
A. V. VI. E. S. I. 
Order LV. SOLANACE.E. 
Cal. inferior, 5-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, regular 
or slightly irregular, 5-cleft, deciduous, plicate in bud : the 
lobes imbricate or imbricate-plicate (in Solanum valvate). 
Stam. 4 — 5, inserted on the cor., alternate with the lobes. 
Ovary 1 — 2- or imperfectly 4-celled. Fr. a berry or capsule. 
Seeds many. Embrj'o usually curved, in fleshy albumen, 
often not in the axis. — Xo stipules. 
Tribe I. SOLANE^E. Cor. rotate ; lobes nearly regular and 
equal, valvate in the bud. Anth. opening by pores. 
1. Solanum. Cor.-limb 5-cleft, rejlexed. Anth. erect con- 
nivent. Berry roundish with 2 or more cells. 
Tr. II. ATROPE.E. Cor. tubular; tube plicate in bud; 
lobes slightly unei[ual, imbricate in the bud. Anth. 
opening longitudinally at the margin. 
2. Atrop.s. Co/'. 6e//.*/('/;je(i with 5 equal lobes. Cal. 5-parted, 
patent and dilated with fruit. Stam. included. Fr. a glo- 
bose 2-celled berry. 
