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NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 713 
ALABAMA: Over the State; waste places. Flowers white, June to October; fruit 
ripe August to October. Abundant. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Hab, in Orbis totius cultis.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
Solanum gracile Dunal in DC. Prodr.13, pt.1: 54, 1852, SLENDER NIGHTSHADE, 
Erroneously referred to S. hirsutum by Mohr in Bull. Torr, Club, 24:26, 1897, 
Annual, 14 to 2 feet high, erect or decumbent at the base, stem and branches terete, 
somewhat cinereous by the close pubescence; leaves oblong-ovate, attenuated, cuneate 
at the base, acutish, pubescent and ciliate, } to 1} inches long, $ to 4 inch wide, short- 
petioled; peduncles extra-axillary, about 4 inch long, spreading-retlexed in fruit; 
pedicels umbellate or subumbellate, shorter than the peduncles; flowers small; calyx 
lobes short, rather obtuse; filaments smooth; style bearded at the base; fruit black, 
of a bronzy hue, $ inch in diameter. 
SOUTHERN BRAZIL, ARGENTINA. 
ALABAMA: A common ballast weed spreading over low waste places. Mobile 
County, abundant in thickets bordering the swamps along the Mobile River. Pro- 
ducing its fruit to perfection throughout the summer and fall, 
Type locality: “In Brasiliae provincia Rio de Janeiro * ~~ * — cirea Buenos 
Ayres * * * in Montevideo * * * in Chiliad Rancagua,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Llerb. Mohr. 
Solanum rubrum Mill. Dict. ed.&, no. 4. 1768. RED NIGHTSHADE, 
Solanum nodiflorum var. rubrum Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 437. 1864. 
The form with black berries. 
Annual from a long fibrous root. Stem smoothish, muricately denticulate along 
the angles, like the branchlets; leaves repand-denticulate or subentire, peduncles 
ereet-spreading, about $ inch long; pedicels somewhat shorter, strongly reflexed in 
fruit, flowers smaller than in the last with the short calyx lobes oval, obtuse. 
TROPICAL AMERICA. 
Louisianian area. Western Florida. 
ALABAMA: Mobile County, like the last, a common and persistent ballast weed 
slowly spreading to waysides along the river front, June to October, 
Type locality: “The seeds * * * came from the West Indies.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Solanum pseudocapsicum L. Sp. Pl. 1:184. 1753, JERUSALEM CIIERRY. 
Gray, Syn. Fl.N. A. 2, pt. 1: 228, 
MADEIRA, AZOREs, 
Louisianian area, Naturalized in Florida and South Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. This erect low shrub appears to be well estab- 
lished in thickets and hedge rows. Tallapoosa County, near Dadeville. Lee County, 
Auburn (arle §° Underwood). Flowers in June. Fruit globose, scarlet. 
Type locality: “ Hab. in Madera.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Solanum aculeatissimum Jacy. Icon. Rar, ¢, 47, 1781-17938. Spiny NIGHTSHADE, 
Solanum mammosum Ell. Sk, 1:281. 1817, Not L. (7?) 
Chap. F1.349, Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1: 230, Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2: 298. 
Griseb. FI]. Brit, W. Ind. 442. 
West INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL, CEYLON. 
Louisianian area. ‘Texas along the coast to Florida and North Carolina, 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt to Littoral belt. Dry sandy pastures. Baldwin 
County, shores of Fish River Bay, October 4, in fruit; berries } inch in diameter, 
bright flame-scarlet. Infrequent. Suffrutescent. Springhill, waste ground, near 
the hotel. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Solanum sisymbrifolium Lam. Tabl. Encyel. 2:25, 1793. 
Solanum balbisii Dunal, Hist. Solan. 232, t. 5, 18138, 
Chap. Fl. Suppl. 641; ed. 3,322. Gray, Syn. Fl N. A. 2, pt. 1:2580, Coulter, Contr. 
Nat. Herb. 2: 298. 
PERU, SOUTHERN BRAZIL, BUENOS AYRES, 
Louisianian area, Naturalized from Georgia and Florida to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie belt to Coast plain. Adventive from South America. 
Waste places, near dwellings. Montgomery, roadsides in the suburbs. Mobile 
County, waste places along the banks of the river, Flowers pale blue, May to July; 
