SOLANACEAE. 



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4. Physalis peruviana L. CAPE 

 GOOSEBERRY. (Fig. 362.) Perennial 

 by rootstocks, velvety-pubescent, 

 branched, 2- high. Leaves thin, 

 flaccid, broadly ovate, 2' !' long, 

 acuminate at the apex, cordate or 

 subcordate at the base, the petioles 

 half as long as the blades or less; 

 peduncles A' long or less, recurved in 

 fruit ; corolla about 8" broad, yellow, 

 with a 'lark purplish eye; anthers 

 violet ; fruiting calyx l'-14' long, 

 ovoid, scarcely angled. [P. edulis 

 of Lefroy.] 



Waste grounds, escaped from culti- 

 vation, and locally naturalized. Native 

 of South America. Flowers in spring 

 and summer. 



Physalis lanceolata Michx., of the central and southern United States, a 

 perennial species with spatulate or oblanceolate leaves, and yellowish corolla 

 with a dark eye, given as Bermudian on the authority of Lane, is probably 

 erroneously recorded. 



3. SOLANUM [Tourn.] L. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, often stellate-pubescent, some species climbing. 

 Flowers cymose, umbelliform, paniculate, or racemose. Calyx eampanulate or 

 rotate, mostly 5-toothed or 5-eleft. Corolla rotate, the limb plaited, 5-angled or 

 5-lobed, the tube very short. Stamens inserted on the throat of the corolla; 

 filaments short ; anthers linear or oblong, acute or acuminate, connate or eon- 

 nivent into a cone, each sac dehiscent by a terminal pore, or sometimes by a 

 short introrse terminal slit, or sometimes also longitudinally. Ovary usually 2- 

 celled; stigma small. Berry mostly globose, the calyx either persistent at its 

 base or enclosing it. [Name, according to Wittstean, from solamen, quieting.] 

 About 1000 species, of wide geographic distribution. Type species: Solanum 

 nigrum L. 



Plant unarmed ; berries small, black. 



Plant copiously armed with yellow prickles ; berries large, 

 scarlet. 



1. 8. nigrum. 



2. 8. aculeatissimum. 



