236 SOLANACE^E. Phi/salis. 



-H- -H- Pubescence stellular or branching, at least on the calyx, &c. : leaves all or most of them 

 cordate or ovate with abrupt base : corolla usually with darker eye : anthers occasionally with a 

 tinge of blue: fruiting calyx globose-ovate. 



P. Fendleri, Gray, 1. c. Pruinose-puberulent ; the pubescence microscopically minute 

 and partly simple, partly branched or stellular, sometimes a little glandular : stems a span 

 to a foot high from a deep tuberous stock, slender, much branched : leaves small (an inch 

 or less long), from deltoid-ovate or slightly cordate to ovate-lanceolate, and from repand- 

 undulate to coarsely sinuate-toothed, mostly acute : pedicels shorter than the flower : corolla 

 half an inch in diameter. P. inollis, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound., in part. Rocks and plains, 

 New Mexico, Fendler, Thurber, Wright, Biyelow, Parry. Also S. Colorado. 



P. mollis, Nutt. Softly cinereous-tomentose or canescent throughout with stellate or 

 many-branched woolly hairs : steins a span to a foot or more high : leaves varying from 

 ovate (or some of the lower obovate) to rounded-cordate, mostly obtuse, angulate-toothed 

 or repand (an inch or two long), on slender petioles : pedicels usually filiform and equalling 

 the petiole : corolla half to three-fourths inch in diameter : fruiting calyx an inch or more 

 long. Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, v. 194 ; Torr. 1. c., in part ; Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. x. 66. P. toinentosa, Dunal in DC. 1. c. ? not Walt. Thickets and banks of streams, 

 Arkansas (Nuttull, &c.) and Texas. (Mex.) Sometimes very white-woolly (as in coll. 

 E. Hall) ; but passing into 



Var. cinerascens, Gray, 1. c. Greenish ; the pubescence much shorter and less 

 dense, the hairs less compound : leaves roundish, rarely at all cordate, some of the lower 

 with cuneate base : pedicels sometimes shorter. P. Pennsylcanica, var. cinerascens, Dunal 

 in DC. 1. c. 435. Indian Territory (Palnn-r) and through Texas (Drummond, Schott, E. Hall, 

 &c.) to Mexico. Berlandier collected it at Matamoras. 



-M- -H- -H- Pubescence stellular, or simple and somewhat rigid, or nearly none : leaves from oval 

 to lanceolate-linear and tapering into the petiole, or in the tirst species'occasionally subcordate: 

 style commonly clavate. 



P. viscosa, L. Cinereous or when young almost canescent with short and soft stellular or 

 2-3-forked pubescence : stems ascending or spreading from slender creeping subterranean 

 shoots, a foot or two long : leaves ovate or oval, varying to oblong and obovate, entire or 

 undulate (1^ too inches long): pedicels about the length of the petioles: corolla two- 

 thirds to three-fourths inch in diameter, greenish-yellow with a more or less dark throat : 

 fruiting calyx globose-ovate, an inch or more long: berry yellow or orange. Dill. Elth. 

 t. 10 ; Jacq. Vind. t. ISO ; Michx. Fl. i. 149 ; Gray, 1. c. P. Pennsijh-anica, L. Spec. ed. 2, 

 1670, but not from Pennsylvania or near it. P. toinentosa, Walt. Car. 99. P. mar it i inn, 

 M. A. Curtis in Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, vii. 407. P. Jacgui/ii, Link, Enum. Berol. ; Duual, 1. c. 

 P. Walter/, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 112. In sands on and near coast, Virginia 

 (L.), N. Carolina to Florida. (Buenos Ayres, &c.) Specific name from the viscous berry. 



Var. spathulsefolia, Gray, 1. c. Leaves spatulate or oblong-lanceolate, gradually 

 tapering into the petiole. P. pultesce.m, Engelm. & Gray, PI. Lindh. i. 19. P. lanr.eolata, 

 var. spat/iulti'foliti, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. I.e. Sea beaches, Florida and Texas. Glabrate 

 forms approach the next. 



P. angustifolia, Nutt. Bright green, very minutely stellular-pubescent when young, 

 or glabrous from the first, except a fine soft stellular pubescence on the margins of the 

 leaves, or at least on the calyx-lobes : stems erect or ascending from filiform running 

 shoots, a span to a foot or more high: leaves from oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate to 

 linear, tapering into a very short petiole (l^-3 inches long) : corolla three-fourths inch 

 in diameter when expanded : flowering calyx broadly campanulate and 3 or 4 lines long, 

 the subglobose fruiting calyx seldom an inch long. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 112 ; Gray, 

 1. c. Sandy coast and Keys of W. Florida. 



P. lanceolata, MicllX. More or less hirsute-pubescent with short and stiff (or on the 

 stem often longer and somewhat villous-hispid) tapering hairs, most of which are simple, 

 a few 2-3-forkrd, varying to nearly glabrous : stems a span to a foot high from rather 

 stout subterranean shoots, angled, somewhat rigid : leaves pale green, varying from oblong- 

 ovate to narrowly lanceolate, and from sparingly angulate-few-toothed to undulate or 

 entire, mostly acute at base or tapering into a short petiole : corolla ochroleucous with 

 more or less dark eye, two-thirds to three-fourths of an inch in diameter : calyx (4 or 5 

 lines long) commonly hirsute, in fruit conical-ovate with sunken pyramidal base, 1 to lj 



