eet - ; 
ms = 
& DITA: MoNdOYSt4,, Bee 
7 fe oe ce) ae in atti species ieee by pairs: 
# peduncles solitary or'seyeral, one or many-flowered, above - 
Pe py athe: axill, seattered of terminal. Pubescence stellate. 
*-Sseer es. ‘1 S. nigrum, variety wirginicum. 2. ‘Duica- 
ee dha. ~* Becoming naturalized. 3. mammosumn. 4. virginia- 
‘f.4, aim. 5. carvlinense. 6. *irdflorumStem unarmed, herbace- 
oY us‘and- procumbent; leaves dentately-pinnatifid, smooth, 
segments acute, somewhat undulated, with the meen 
: i more'or less revolute; peduncles opposite’ the leaves, 2 
or 3- flowered.—Flowers smalt and white, revolute; frilit 
about the size of : a cherry, green when she Stem a Hit 
: ove apatin have some a with the Ss. Fincie : 
Fim 'of Peru and: Chi i—Hap. As a weed in and about the 
., gardens of the Mane ; 
Sleeps Near Fort Mandan. 
- "OF this last. genus: there ‘Mee no eas: En 140, pee. 
i; 5: + gigs. deséribed, besides what have been recently added , 
- ‘from New Holland and.other places. ‘Some of thespecies 
gh {+ <thave become highly mpg nt: in human econom ys such ihe 
see g 
are the Potatoe (8. gsum) introduced into Europe He 
soe + fro ~ ‘the pipe in parts | ie Pay. in the yea ee. ac- f 
ant CS Melogena) of ugena mes ca ee nee ‘ - 
$ well as in the United St: 
Lye : }) of India and the warmer parts o eri Re 
ark affording an agreeable and well known condiment; ° 
to these we may add the S. anguiwi of Madagascar, fur- 
“.> “nishing also an esculent fruit; the §. scadrum of Peru a 
Pts producing a fruit like an orange, answering the purpose *¢ 
-..‘. Of a saponaceous abstergent for washing; with the- WPege - 
& » Pseudo-capsicum of Madeira every one is- familiar: an a 
*+... elegant ‘shrub cultivated for the appearance of its fruit, = 
**+ _-* sesembling scarlet cherries. — os 
“<-  In its geographical distribution the genus Solanum is. 
as eee principally confined to the tropical parts of America, and oe 
‘ho where more abundant than in Peru and Mexico; there - 
oa are also & few « Aaa in India.and Africa, but in Ameri- . * , 
. -. \ ea there are no less than 100. With the exception then S 
mt \ of So Dulcamara. and S, nigrum this us is carte ares 
*. 7 tihdigenous to the warmer parts of amelie, extending also 
= “into Asia and pat. S. nigrum is found apparently 
Qe Bh pone gos in part of the world, in North America 
sources of the. Missouri. — 
in ther 
