230 SOLANACE.E. Solatium. 



lateral, short, few-flowered : berries smooth, becoming red or yellow. (Tropical American, spar- 

 ingly introduced as weeds on and near the coast of Southern Atlantic States, growing as annuals'.) 



S. ACDLEATISSIMUM, Jacq. Villous with scattered long and weak jointed hairs, or soon 

 nearly glabrate, beset (even to the calyx) with slender-subulate straight prickles : leaves 

 pretty large, membranaceous, ovate or slightly cordate, mostly sinuate-pinnatifid : corolla 

 white, its lobes ovate-lanceolate : berry globose : seeds very flat and thin, with a membra- 

 naceous border. Jacq. Ic. Kar. t. 41. Waste grounds, a weed near dwellings, from N. 

 Carolina to Florida and Texas. (Nat. from tropics.) 

 ) -f -t Corolla 5-cleft or angulate-5-lobed, plicate in the hud: pubescence all or partly stellate. 



-H- Indigenous perennials, a foot or two high, with deep running rootstocks : corolla violet, rarely 

 white: anthers lanceolate or linear-lanceolate: pedicels recurved or reflexed in fruit : mature 

 berries naked, merely subtended by the calyx. 



S. elseagnifolium, Cav. Silvery-canescent all over by the dense and close scurf -like 

 pubescence, composed of many-rayed stellate hairs: stems often woody at base: prickles 

 small and acicular, sometimes copious, sometimes nearly or wholly wanting: leaves lan- 

 ceolate and varying to oblong and to linear, rather obtuse, sinuate-repand or entire : 

 cymes at first terminal, short-peduncled, few-flowered: pedicels rather long: calyx 5- 

 angled, with slender lobes fully as long as the tube : corolla moderately 5-lobed, about an 

 inch in diameter ; the lobes triangular-ovate : ovary white-tomentose : berry globose, seldom 

 half an inch in diameter, yellowish, or at length black. Ic. iii. t. 243. S. leprosum, Ort. 

 Dec. ix. 115; Dunal, Sol. t. 12, a prickly and sinuate-leaved form. S. ^flavidum, Torr. in 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 227. 5. Hlndsianum, Benth. Sulph. 39. S. Texense, Engelm. & Gray, 

 PI. Lindh. i. 45. S. Raemerianum, Scheele in Linn. xxi. 707. Prairies and plains, Kansas to 

 Texas, and west to S. Arizona. (Lower Calif., Mex., Extra-trop. S. Amer.) 



S. Torreyi, Gray. Cinereous with a somewhat close furfuraceous pubescence composed 

 of about equally 9-12-rayed hairs : prickles small and subulate, scanty along the stem and 

 midribs, or sometimes nearly wanting : leaves ovate with truncate or slightly cordate base, 

 sinuately 5-7-lobed (4 to 6 inches long) ; the lobes entire or undulate, obtuse, unarmed : 

 cymes at first terminal, loose, 2-3-fid : lobes of the calyx (often 0) short-ovate with a long 

 abrupt acumination : corolla an inch and a half in diameter ; its lobes broadly ovate : 

 berry globose, an inch in diameter, yellow when mature. Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 44. S. 

 plnti/p/ii/llitm, Torr. in Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 227, not HBK. S. mammositm ? Engchn. & Gray, 

 PI. Lindh. i. 46. Prairies, &c., Kansas and Texas. Anthers 4 to 5 lines long. Flowers 

 large and handsome. 



S. Carolinense, L. Hirsute or roughish-piibescent with 4-8-rayed hairs, many of them 

 with the central division elongated: prickles stout and subulate, yellowish, copious or 

 rarely scanty: leaves oblong or sometimes ovate, obtusely sinuate-toothed or lobed or sin- 

 uate-pinnatifid : cymes or racemes simple, soon lateral, loose, few-several-flowered : lobes 

 of the calyx acuminate : corolla an inch or less in diameter, light blue or rarely white, the 

 lobes ovate: berries about half inch in diameter, globose. (Dill. Elth. t. 269; but the fig. 

 of Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 331 is dubious.) Sandy soil and waste grounds, Connecticut and S. 

 Illinois to Florida and Texas. Southward a troublesome weed in cult, grounds. Vnr. 

 Flnridanum, Chapm. Fl. 349, is a mere form with decp-lobed leaves. 



Var. hirsutum (S. liirstitum, Xutt. in Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 109, S. pumilnm, Dunal, 

 1. c.), judging from an imperfect original specimen, is a depauperate, and more hirsute 

 variety, little prickly, with leaves merely repand and tapering to the base, as in the low- 

 est leaves of S. Carnlincnsp,. S. Pled, Dunal, 1. c., may be a more developed state of the 

 same. Milledgeville, Georgia, Boykin, &c. 



H- -H- Introduced annuals or more enduring and woody in the tropics, with partly simple pubes- 

 cence: anthers lanceolate: racemose fructiferous pedicels merely spreading: berry wholly or 

 partly enveloped by the loose calyx. 



S. SISYMBRIIFOLIUM, Lam. Green, stout, villous-pubescent with simple more or less glan- 

 dular and viscid hairs, mixed on the leaves with some few-rayed stellate hairs (their middle 

 division elongated), much armed even to the calj'x with long-subulate straight prickles: 

 leaves deeply pinnatifid and the oblong lobes sinuate or even again somewhat pinnatifid : 

 flowers several or numerous in terminal or soon lateral pedunculate racemes : corolla light 

 blue or white, an inch or more in diameter, 5-lobed : lobes of the 5-parted calyx lanceolate, 

 becoming ovate-lanceolate and at length loosely and completely or incompletely surround- 

 ing the globose red berry: seed.; minutely reticulate-pitted. Dunal in DC. 1. c. S. vis- 



