Class V. Order I. 



forms moss-like tufts among the rocks, beautifully spangled in 

 July with showy white flowers. Perennial. 



88. SOLANUM. 



SOLANUM DULCAMAHA. L. Bittersiveet, Woody Nightshade. 

 Stem shrubby, flexuous, without thorns ; upper 

 leaves hastate ; clusters cymose. Sm. 



Bigelow, Medical Botany, PI. xviii. 



Stein woody, climbing upon fences and bushes. Lower leaves 

 heart shaped, entire ; upper ones ovate, furnished with two ears 

 at the base giving them a hastate form. Clusters on the sides 

 and ends of the stem, on branching and spreading stalks, droop- 

 ing. Flowers with five acute, spreading or reflexed, purple seg- 

 ments. Anthers forming a yellow tube projecting from the 

 flower. Berries oval, bright red. This plant is common in low 

 grounds, by the side of brooks, &,c. As a medicinal article it 

 holds a place in most dispensatories July. 



SOLANUM NIGRUM. L*. Black Nightshade. 



Stem herbaceous, without thorns ; Leaves ovate, 

 bluntly toothed and waved. Umbels lateral, droop- 

 ing. Sm. 



Much more ordinary in its appearance than the last. Stem 

 erect, branching, angular and sometimes winged. Leaves ovate 

 alternate. The umbels come out from the sides of the stem, re- 

 mote from the leaves. They consist of drooping white flowers, 

 with yellow anthers. Berries round, black. This variety was 

 probably imported from Europe. It grows among rubbish, and 

 has the aspect and reputation of a poisonous plant. 



89. SAMOLUS. 



SAMOLUS VALERANDI. L. Water Pimpernel. 



Leaves obtuse, raceme many flowered, pedicels 

 bracteolate. 



A smooth plant about a foot high. Stem erect, round. Leaves 

 alternate, subsessile, obovate, obtuse, entire, those of the root 

 petioled. Racemes terminal, many flowered. Pedicels often 

 two together, one flowered, geniculate, with a small lanceolate 



