35PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
S O L A N U M. Common Nightshade. 
The cup is monophyilous, femiquinquifid, eredh, acute, 
and remains till the fruit be ripe. 1 he flower is mo- 
nopetalous and wheel-fliaped, having a very fnort tube. 
The limb is iemiquinquind, patent and plicated, with 
broad acute fegments. 1 he five fllaments are Tubulated 
and very fmall, with oblong connivent antherai, opening 
in the apices by two pores. Thegermen is roundifh, 
having a thread-like ftyle longer than the fliarnina and an 
acute fligma. I'he fruit is a roundifli, fmpoth, bilocular 
' berry with a convex fleflry receptacle, having many 
roundifh feeds in the pulp. 
Nigrum. Nightjhade wdth an herbaceous unarmed 
flalk, oval, angular indented leaves, and nodding um- 
bels. An. June and July. 
Dulcamara. fVoody Nightjhade with a fhrubby flexible, 
unarmed flalk, the upper leaves fpearfhaped, and bun- 
ches of flowers at the top of the ilalk. In hedges that 
have a moifl fituation. Per. June and July. 
ILLECEBRUM. Verticillate Knot-Grass. 
The cup is pentaphyllous and quinquangular, the 
leaves coloured and acuminated, the apices Handing off 
one another and remaining till the fruit be ripe. The 
flve capillary fllaments are within the cup, having Am- 
ple antherte.' The germen is oval, acute, ending in a 
fliort, bifid ftyle, having a Ample, obtufe ftigma. The 
feed velTel is 'a roundiili capfule, acurninated on both 
fides, having five valves and one cell, covered in the cup, 
containing one roundifh feed, acute on both fides and 
very large. 
Verticillaium. Knot-Grafs with naked, verticillate 
flovyers and procumbent ftalks. In moift meadows and 
paftures about Penzance in Cornwall. R. Sy. Per. July^ 
G L A U X. Sea Milkwort, or Black Salt-wort. 
There is no cup, un’efs you reckon the flower a cup, 
which confifts of one quinquepartite, campanulated, eredl 
petal 
