94 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
the same county; possibly also in Hertfordshire. Mr. Varenne, in 
a letter dated December 28th, 1S(>5, writes to me : — " I have not 
met with Cuscuta Hassiaca since the notice of its discovery ap- 
peared in the ' Phytologist.' " The plant cannot, therefore, be 
considered as permanently established in Britain. 
ORDER XLIX.— S OLANACEiS. 
Herbs or nndershrubs, more rarely shrubs, with alternate 
leaves, often with fascicles of smaller leaves in their axils ; stipules 
none. Flowers perfect, regular or nearly so, generally solitary 
or in cymes, never in true racemes. Calyx free from the ovary, 
persistent (the apical portion sometimes deciduous), 5- rarely 
1-toothcd, cleft, or partite. Corolla hypogynous, monopetalous, 
rotate, salver-shaped, funnel-shaped, bell-shaped, or clavate, 
regular or nearly regular, with the limb 5- rarely 4-lobed ; seg- 
ments with valvate, plicate, or imbricated aestivation. Stamens 
inserted in the tube of the corolla, alternate with the lobes 
and equalling them in number (i.e. 5 or 4), equal or nearly 
equal in length. Ovary 2-celled, rarely 3- to 5-cclled, with the 
placenta in the centre; style single; stigma generally entire; 
ovules numerous in each cell. Fruit a 2-, 3-, or 1-celled berry, or 
a capsule with 2, 4, rarely 3 or 5 or more cells. Seeds numerous; 
embryo minute, usually curved, in fleshy albumen. 
GENUS I.—S OLANUM. Linn. 
Calyx of 5- (rarely 10-) partite segments, persistent, but 
not accrescent after flowering. Corolla regular, rotate, or rarely 
campanulate ; tube very short; the limb 5- (rarely 10-) partite; 
segments valvate in aestivation. Stamens 5 (very rarely more), 
inserted in the throat of the corolla, exserted; filaments very 
short; anthers connivent and coherent, each one opening by 2 pores 
al the apex. Fruit a berry, with 2 (or rarely more) cells. Seeds 
numerous, sub-reniform. 
Plants of various habit, with the flowers frequently extra- 
axillary, commonly white or violet, rarely yellow. 
"he derivation of the name of this genus of plants is from solor, 1 case, because 
oi its Btupefying power, 
