SoLANUM PYRACANTHUM. 6. ORANGE-THORNED 
_ NIGHT-SHADE. . 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
x * 
| 3 Cor. rotata. ‘Anthere subcoalite, apice poro gemito 
 dehiscentes. Bacca bilocularis. 
, Specific Character and ‘Synonyms. | 
*  Sotanum pyracanthum ; caule aculeato fruticoso, foliis one 
! longis angustis- sinuato-pinnatifidis tomentosis acu- 
= rae aculeis rectis subcoccineis. Duna Solanum p. — 
Sotanum pyracanthos ; caule aculeato suffruticoso,, foliis 
oblongis acutis sinuato-pinnatifidis tomentosis, aculeis 
rectis subcoccineis. Lam. ill. gen. n. 2364. Potrét m 
Encycl. Bot. 4. p.299. Persoon Syn. 1. p.229. 
SoLanum pyracantha. Smith Exot. Bot. 2. p. 9. t. 64. Willd. 
Enum. p. 238. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.1. p.4038. 
Sotantm pyracanthon. Jacq. Hort. Schenb. 4. p. 36. t. 470. 
(2.) pedunculis calycibusque spinosis. : 
(8.) pedunculis calyctbusque inermibus. 
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’ Donat, in his mono of the renus SOLANUM, re- 
marks, that the ered i at alysis OF SoLanuM pyra- 
| canthum, are sometimes very thorny, and at other times 
_ Quite without thorns. In our plant 
d, the common pedi ne S.C 
Smaller, with reflexed petals, wi 
ether not much resembling ped pa 
botany of Sir Jamns E.,Surri, but more like that of Jac- 
big in his Hortus Scheenbrunensis. We have, however, 
fry little doubt but that it is one of the various appear- 
alices of = onuee ieee Nightshade. a A small 
