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SPECIES T.— SO LAN UM DULCAMARA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXXX. 
Rnch. Tc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCXXXTII. Figs. 1, 2. 
'. VI Call, et (\wn\. Kxsicc. No. 160. 
Rootstock extensively creeping. Stem shrubby, flexuous, 
without thorns. Leaves stalked, ovate, the upper ones oHmi 
hastate, or with 1 or more pair of rather small pinnae below the 
large terminal lobe, which is acuminate and entire. Cymes 
corymbose, mostly opposite the leaves. Flowers numerous, droop- 
ing. Corolla 5-partite ; segments triangular-lanceolate, spreading- 
recurved. Berries drooping, oval-ovoid, pointed. 
Var. a, genidnum. 
Stem elongated, climbing. Leaves thin. 
Var. $, marlnum. 
Stem prostrate, much branched. Leaves fleshy. 
Var. a in hedges and thickets and banks of ditches. Common,, 
and generally distributed in England, more rare in Scotland, but 
reaching North to the counties of Aberdeen and Argyle. Var. /3 
on shingle by the seashore in the southern counties of England 
and the AVest of Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
A soft-wooded shrub with weak stems, supporting themselves 
on surrounding plants, 3 to 6 feet high or more. Bark of the main 
stem grey, of the branches of the year green and smooth. Leaves 
stalked, 1^ to 3 inches long, the upper ones with a pair of segments 
much smaller than the middle one, sometimes united with it so 
as to be hastate, sometimes separate so as to be bi-pinnatilid, or 
almost pinnate, and occasionally there is a second pair of segments 
below the first; all the segments connected together by a narrow 
strip or wing running down each side of the petiole from the 
terminal lobe. Corymbs stalked, many-flowered, terminal but 
apparently lateral, from the non-production of an axillary branch, 
which resembles a continuation of the main stem. Pedicels slender, 
curved, without bracts, longer than the calyx. Calyx 5-lobed ; 
lobes roundish-deltoid, obtuse. Corolla J inch across, purple, some- 
times white ; segments each with 2 green spots at the base. Anthers 
bright-yellow, with scarcely any filaments, nearly as long as the 
petals, cohering together in a tube round the style, which projects 
beyond the tube formed by the cohering anthers. Berry \ inch 
long, red, pellucid, with a very thin skin, rather pointed. Plant 
