Genus 6. 



POTATO FAMILY. 



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8. Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam. Viscid 

 Nightshade. Fig. 3724. 



Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam. 111. 2: 



1/93- 



Annual, branched, 2-4 high, villous-pubescent 

 with long viscid hairs and armed all over with bright 

 yellow prickles. Leaves thin, deeply pinnatifid into 

 oblong toothed or sinuate lobes; flowers li'-li' 

 broad, light blue or white; stamens and style nearly- 

 erect; anthers all equal, yellow; corolla slightly 

 irregular, its lobes deltoid or ovate-deltoid, acute or 

 obtusish; fruit included in the accrescent calyx 

 which has a prickly tube and thinnish lobes. 



In waste places and on ballast, especially about sea- 

 ports, from Massachusetts to the Gulf States. Intro- 

 duced from tropical America. June-Sept. 



9. Solanum Dulcamara L. 



Fellenwort. 



Climbing or Bitter Nightshade. Blue Bindweed. 

 Bittersweet. Dogwood. Fig. 3725. 



Solanum Dulcamara L. Sp. PI. 185. 1753. 



Perennial, pubescent with simple hairs or gla- 

 brate, stem climbing or straggling, somewhat 

 woody below, branched, 2-8 long. Leaves peti- 

 oled, ovate or hastate in outline, 2'~4' long, l'-2i' 

 wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, usually 

 slightly cordate at the base, some of them entire, 

 some with a lobe on one side near the base, some 

 deeply 3-lobed or 3-divided, with the terminal 

 segment much the largest; cymes compound, lat- 

 eral; pedicels slender, articulated at the base, 

 spreading or drooping ; flowers blue, purple or 

 white, s"-y" broad ; calyx-lobes short, oblong, 

 obtuse, persistent at the base of the berry; corolla 

 deeply 5-cleft, its lobes triangular-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate; berry oval or globose, red. 



Tn waste places or in moist thickets, sometimes 

 appearing as if indigenous, Nova Scotia to Minne- 

 sota, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and 

 Kansas. May-Sept. Woody nightshade. Poison- 

 flower. Poison- or snake-berry. Scarlet berry. Natu- 

 ralized from Europe. Native also of Asia. 



Solanum triquetrum Cav., a Texan and Mexican nearly glabrous herb, scarcely climbing, with 

 somewhat ridged stems, 3-lobed deltoid-cordate or hastate leaves, lateral few-flowered cymes and 

 globose red berries, is reported from Kansas. 



Solanum Melongena L., the egg-plant, with blue or purplish flowers, and an ovoid or obovoid 

 berry up to 6' long, is occasionally found in waste grounds. It is native of Asia, 

 species: Lycium afrum L. 



7. LYCOPERSICON Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. 



Annual, or rarely perennial, coarse branching or feebly climbing herbs, with 1-2-pinnately 

 divided leaves, and lateral irregular raceme-like cymes of small yellowish flowers opposite 

 the leaves. Calyx 5-parted, or rarely 6-parted, the segments linear or lanceolate. Corolla 

 rotate, the tube very short, the limb 5-cleft or rarely 6-cleft, plicate. Stamens 5 (rarely 6), 

 inserted on the throat of the corolla; filaments very short; anthers elongated, connate or 

 connivent, introrsely longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-3-celled ; style simple; stigma small, 

 capitate. Berry in the wild plants globose or pyriform, much modified in cultivation, the 

 calyx persistent at its base. [Greek, wolf-peach.] 



About 4 species, natives of North America, the following typical. 



