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calyx-lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute. Lucas county, 

 (a waif.) 



2. Solanum carolinense L. Horse-nettle. Stellate-pubes- 

 cent with 4 to <S rayed hairs, erect, branched, prickly. Leaves 

 oblong or ovate, repand, lobed or pinnatifid; flowers cymose- 

 racemose with pedicels recurved in tmit; petals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, about half the length of 

 the corolla, persistent at the base of the berry; berries orange-yel- 

 low, glabrous. General. 



.3. Solanum tuberosum L. Potato. Plant erect, finely 

 pubescent. Leaves pinnate, made up of several ovate leaflets 

 and some minute ones inter-mixed; flowers blue or white, arranged 

 in cymes; sepals about half the length of the petals; berries round, 

 green. Franklin, Ottawa, Erie, Tuskarawas, Hocking, Monroe. 



4. Solanum dulcamara L. Bitter-sweet. Perennial; stem 

 climbing, somewhat woody below. Leaves ovate or hastate; 

 petioled, acute or acuminate, entire, 3-lobed, or 3-divided with the 

 terminal segment the largest; flowers blue, purple or white in 

 compound lateral cymes; corolla 5-lobed, petals triangular-lanceo- 

 late, sepals short, oblong, obtuse, persistent at the base of the berry; 

 berry oval or globose, red. General in northern Ohio as far south 

 as Clark, Licking and Jefferson counties; also in Meigs county. 



5. Solanum nigrum L. Black Nightshade. Annual, glab- 

 rous or slight!}' pubescent, about 15 inches high. Leaves ovate, 

 petioled, more or less inequilateral, acute, acuminate at the apex; 

 flowers broad, 3 to 10 on an umbel; calyx-lobes much shorter than 

 the corolla, persistent at the base of the berry; berries glabrous, 

 globose. General and abundant. 



6. Solanum rostratum Dun. Buffalo-bur. Densely pubes- 

 cent with 5 to S rayed hairs and covered with yellow subulate 

 prickles. Leaves ovate or oval in outline, irregularly pinnately 

 5 to 7 lobed or 1 to 2 pinnatifid; flowers in lateral racemes; pedi- 

 cels erect both in flower and fruit; calyx densely prickly, entirely 

 covering the berry. FrankHn, Marion, Ottawa, Cuyahoga, Sum- 

 mit, Lake. From the west. 



Lycopersicon Mill. 



Annual, or rarely perennial, coarse herbs with 1 to 2 pinnately 

 divided leaves and flowers in lateral irregular racemose cymes 

 opposite the leaves. Corolla rotate, the tube short, the limb 5- 

 cleft rarely 6-clcft, plicate; calyx 5-parted rarely (i-parted. 



1. Lycopersicon lycopersicon (L). Karst. Tomato. Viscid- 

 pubescent, much branched, one to several feet high. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute, dentate, lobed or 

 again divided with several or numerous small leaflets, sepals about 

 equalling the petals. Rather general as an csca])e. 



Date of Publication, January 23, 1914. 



