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rolla not plicate: plant perennial. IV. ACULEATISSIMA. 
Perennials, ee -armed. V. CAROLINENSIA 
Shrubs or tre 
Plants E Oron VI. GLAUCA. 
Plants ee i. 
Cymes o ng peduncles: berries nodding: 
anne tapering at the apex. VII. BAHAMENSIA. 
Cymes on erect peduncles or Pa i berries 
erect: anthers blunt at the apex. IIT. VERBASCIFOLIA. 
Cymes terminal: anthers short, ellipsoid. 
Cyines lateral: anthers Jong, nearly linear. IX. TORVA. 
I. DULCAMAR 
Eo entire and ovate to lanceolate or with 2 
sal lobes or divisions: berries in drooping clusters. 1. S. Dulcamara. 
NIGRA 
Foliage glabrous or nearly so: cörolla 6-8 mm. broad: 
calyx- lobes spreading at maturity. 2. S. nigrum. 
Foliage puberulent or finely pubescent: corolla 8-10 mm. 
al es appressed to the berry. 
Stem and branches sparingly Doos pubescent. 3. S. gracile. 
Stem and branches villous-tomentos 4. S. alatum. 
III. SISYMBRIIFOLIA 
Rather coarse plant: stem, branches, leaves, and calyx MEN 
armed with flat yellow or yellowish prickles. 5. S. sisymbriifolium. 
IV. ACULEATISSIMA 
sei ace acute: corolla less than 3 em. wide, glabrous 
ith few long hairs without: “lobes lanceolate: calyx 
AA 6. S. aculeatissimum. 
un obtuse: corolla over 8 em. wide, tomentulose 
ithout; lobes deltoid: calyx tomentulose. 7. S. Melongena. 
CAROLINENS 
Foliage green or brown: uode broad: fcd stout, 
much flattened. 
Corolla 2-2.5 cm. wide: pedicels and calyx prickly: 
berry 1-1.5 cm. in diameter. 
Leaf- blades undulate or angulately lobed. 8. S. carolinense. 
Leaf-blades pinnatifid. 9. S. floridanum. 
Corola 4-5 em. wide: pedicel and calyx not prickly: 
berry 2.5-4 cm. in diameter 10. S. perplezum. 
Foliage Fives leaf-blades narrow: prickles slender, not 
flattened. 11. S. elaeagnifolium. 
VI. GLAUCA 
Corolla 11-14 mm. wide: berry mainly over 1 cm. thick: 
leaf-blades with pale margins. 12. S. Pseudo-capsicum. 
Corola 25-30 mm. wide: berry mainly less an 1 cm. 
thick: leaf-blades without distinct mar rgin 13. S. glaucum. 
VII. BAHAMENSIA 
Shrub or rarely a vine, with prickly stems and branches, 
and often with prickles on the more or less harshly 
pubescent leave 14. S. bahamense. 
VIII. VERBASCIFOLIA 
Corolla-lobes ovate to oval-ovate: ovary pubescent: berry 
yellow 15. S. verbascifolium. 
Corolla-l lobes linear linear-lanceolate or lanceolate: 
ovary glabrous: berry red. 16. S. Blodgetti. 
IX. ToR 
Corolla 15—20 mm. wide: leaf- blades NIS enin 17. S. torvum. 
Corolla 8-14 mm. wide: leaf-blades nearly sessile by 
cuneate base. 18. S. jamaicense. 
1. S. Duicamara L. Partially ee climber: leaf-blades ovate, 3-10 em. 
long, entire or with 1 or 2 basal lobes, thin: corolla white or purple, 8-10 mm 
long; lobes lanceolate to elliptic- doce ate: berry oval, 9—15 mm. lo ong.—(Brr- 
TERSWEET.)—-Roadsides, thickets, and waste- es various ‘provinces rarely 
