WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 573 
1. Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav. Icon. Pl. 3: 22. pl. 243. 1794. TROMPILLO. 
Solanum flavidum Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 227. 1827. 
Type Locauty: ‘‘ Habitat in America calidiore.’’ 
Ranae: Kansas and Colorado to Arizona and Mexico; also in South America. 
New Mexico: Abundant except in the San Juan Valley and the higher mountains. 
Plains and valleys, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones, 
A very abundant and troublesome weed in cultivated fields of the valleys. It is 
remarkable for the length of its roots. Ordinarily the flowers are violet, but they 
vary to blue and very frequently white. The berries are used by the native people as 
a substitute for rennet in curdling milk. 
2. Solanum jamesii Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 227. 1827. 
Tyre Locauiry: ‘The station was not recorded but is probably on the Arkansa,”? 
RanGE: Colorado to Arizona and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Las Vegas; Santa Fe; Pecos; Pajarito Park; west of Grants Station; 
Zuni Reservation; Magdalena Mountains; Mangas Springs; Mogollon Mountains; 
Animas Creek; White Mountains; Alamogordo. Plains and low hills, Lower Sonoran 
to the Transition Zone. 
3. Solanum fendleri A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. IT. 22: 285. 1856. Witp porato. 
Solanum tuberosum boreale A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 21: 227. 1878. 
Typr Locautry: ‘In the northern part of New Mexico.’’ Type collected by Fend- 
ler in 1847. 
Rance: New Mexico and Arizona to Mexico. 
New Mexico: Gallinas Canyon; Mogollon Mountains; Organ Mountains; White 
and Sacramento mountains; Hanover Mountain. Damp shaded slopes, in the Tran- 
sition Zone. 
4. Solanum triflorum Nutt. Gen. Pl. 1: 128. 1818. 
Type LocAuity: ‘‘As a weed in and about the gardens of the Mandans and Minita- 
ries, and in no other situations. Near Fort Mandan.” 
Rance: British America to New Mexico. 
New Mextco: Common, except along the lower Pecos Valley. Plains, especially 
about prairie dog towns, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
65. Solanum interius Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 31: 641. 1905. 
BLACK NIGHTSHADE. 
Type Locatity: Middle Loup River, near Mullen, Nebraska. 
Rance: Nebraska and Colorado to Texas and California. 
New Mexico: Raton; Chiz; Santa Rita; Middle Fork of the Gila; Cliff; Kings- 
ton; Mesilla Valley; Dog Spring; Organ Mountains; White Mountains. Shaded 
slopes, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 
A common weed in cultivated and waste ground, especially along irrigating ditches. 
6. Solanum douglasii Dunal in DC. Prodr. 18': 48. 1852. 
Solanum nigrum douglasit A. Gray in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 538. 1876. 
Type Locauiry: ‘‘In Nova California.”’ 
Rance: Southern California to western New Mexico and southward. 
New Mexico: Santa Rita (Holzinger). 
7. Solanum villosum Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. no. 2. 1768. 
Type Locauity: Barbados. 
Ranae: British Columbia and Wyoming to Mexico and the West Indies; intro- 
duced in the eastern United States. 
New Mexico: Las Vegas Hot Springs (Rose & Fitch 17585). 
