Var. lævigàta, Gray. Glabrous or almost so throughout, or with some very short hairs on young parts.—Neb. to Tex., and westward.
Var. hírta, Gray. A remarkable ambiguous form, with much of the hirsute-pubescence of the leaves 2–3-forked, as also are some of the abundant villous-hispid hairs of the stem.—Wet woods, Tex. to Mo., and E. Kan.
4. NICÁNDRA, Adans. Apple of Peru.
Calyx 5-parted, 5-angled, the divisions rather arrow-shaped, enlarged and bladder-like in fruit, enclosing the 3–5-celled globular dry berry. Corolla with border nearly entire. Otherwise much like Physalis.—An annual smooth herb (2–3° high), with ovate sinuate-toothed or angled leaves, and solitary pale blue flowers on axillary and terminal peduncles. (Named after the poet Nicander of Colophon.)
N. physaloìdes, Gaertn.—Waste grounds, near dwellings and old gardens. (Adv. from Peru.)
5. LÝCIUM, L. Matrimony-Vine.
Calyx 3–5-toothed or -cleft, not enlarging, persistent at the base of the berry. Corolla funnel-form or salver-shaped, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated and not plaited in the bud. Stamens 5; anthers opening lengthwise. Style slender; stigma capitate. Berry small, 2-celled. Shrubby, often spiny plants, with alternate and entire small leaves, and mostly axillary small flowers. (Named from the country, Lycia.)
L. vulgàre, Dunal. (Common M.) Shrub with long sarmentose recurved-drooping branches, smooth, sparingly if at all spiny; leaves oblong- or spatulate-lanceolate, often fascicled, narrowed into a short petiole; flowers on slender peduncles fascicled in the axils; corolla short funnel-form, greenish-purple; style and slender filaments equalling its lobes; berry oval, orange-red.—About dwellings, and escaped into waste grounds in Penn., etc. (Adv. from Eu.)
6. HYOSCỲAMUS, Tourn. Henbane.
Calyx bell-shaped or urn-shaped, 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-form, oblique, with a 5-lobed more or less unequal plaited border. Stamens declined. Capsule enclosed in the persistent calyx, 2-celled, opening transversely all round near the apex, which falls off like a lid.—Clammy-pubescent, fetid, narcotic herbs, with lurid flowers in the axils of angled or toothed leaves. (Name composed of ὕς, ὑός, a hog, and κύαμος, a bean; said to be poisonous to swine.)