596' XOTRS ON THE COMMON NIGHTSHADE, 



BeLclie; November, 1887), Kaiigiara Mines, via Bowuiug (H. J. 

 Cocks: April, 1917), Zara, via Hay (Miss E. Officer; E'ebruary, 

 1904), Louth (A. Abrahams, No. 315; September, 1910), Woy 

 Woy (E. Cheel; October, 1916); Arrara, Lake Eliza (J. L. Boor- 

 man; October, 1912) 



Victoria: liawksdale (H. B. Williaaison; Januai-y, 1902), 

 Mildura (Dr. J. B. Oleland; March, 1916). 



South Australia : near Quorn (J. H. Maiden; January, 1907). 



.Soi-ANUM PTEROCAULON Dunal. (Plates xxxi., xxxiii., a). 



(<b'. }iiyruin vu/ya.re simile caulibus exasperatis Dill., Elth. 

 p. 367, t.275, fig. 356), S. iiigrum var. virgijiicnin L., Spec, i., p. 266; 

 Willd., Spec, i., 1053; ^S'. alatum Moench, Meth., p.474 (?) ^tj?e 

 Persoon, Ench., t. 224; *S'. nigrum R.Br., Prod., p. 445, but not 

 Linn. 



This species, according to Dunal(23) and L>on{20), is a native 

 of South America, and of New Holland (Australia). It may be 

 briefly described as follows :— Plants of perennial habit or at 

 least biennial, usually upright, glabrous (or very rarely minuteh' 

 puberulous), branches more or less spreading, with distinctly 

 winged angles or margins, the winged margins minutely but dis- 

 tinctly jagged so that they appear somewhat serrulate or prickly, 

 as seen in Plate xxxiii., fig. a. Leaves glabrous, mure or les.s 

 crenate-sinuated. Flowers white, with pale yellow anthers, on 

 slender pedicels, usually in threes, or rarely four or more in the 

 raceme. Berries at first green, afterwards shiny black, smaller 

 than those of *S'. opacum and .S'. astroites. 



Specimens in the National Herbarium are from the following 

 localities :- New Holland (Banks and Solander, 1770), Broad 

 Sound (11. Brown, Iter Aust. 1802-1805), Kurnell (J. L. Boor- 

 man; April, 1906), Penshui-st (E. Cheel; May, 1911), Kensington 

 (E. Oheel; May, 1917), Neutral Bay (Dr. J. B. Oleland; March, 

 1916), Domain (J. H. Camtield; July, 1902), Parramatta (E. 

 Cheel; October, 1916), Emu Plains (F. VV. Chapman; February, 

 1915), Ashtield (E. Cheel; May, 1916), Woy Woy (E. Cheel; 

 October, 1916), Hill Top (E. Cheel; May, 1916), Wagga (E. 

 Break well; October, 1912). — Queensland : Brisbane Kiver (C. 



