348 SOLANACEJE. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 
seeded capsule or berry. Placente adnate to the partition and projecting 
into the cells. Seeds campylotropous or amphitropous. Embryo mostly | 
slender and curved in fleshy albumen. — Chiefly narcotic poisons. 
Synopsis. 
$1. Fruit a berry. 
* Corolla wheel-shaped or short bell-shaped. 
+ Anthers connivent. Calyx unchanged in fruit. 
1. SOLANUM. Anthers opening by terminal pores, Berry juicy. 
2. CAPSICUM. Anthers opening lengthwise. Berry juiceless. 
+ + Anthers separate, opening lengthwise. Fruiting calyx inflated. 
3. PHYSALIS. Berry juicy. Calyx entire at the base. 
4. NICANDRA. Berry dry. Calyx 10-toothed at the base. 
* * Corolla funnel-shaped. 
5. LYCIUM. Anthers opening lengthwise. Berry juicy. Shrubs. 
$2. Fruit a capsule. 
6. DATURA. Calyx prismatic or terete, circumscissile. Capsule spiny. 
1. SOLANUM, L. NIGHTSHADE. 
Calyx 5-toothed or 5-cleft. Corolla wheel-shaped, 5-lobed, valvate, with the 
margins turned inward. Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla, = 
serted ; the filaments very short: anthers opening by 2 terminal pores, contr > 
vent. Stigma obtuse. Berry juicy, 2-celled, many-seeded. — Herbs or shrubs, n 
often armed with prickles. Leaves alternate or in pairs, Flowers opposite the p 
axils, or above them. 
* Unarmed: cymes or racemes corymbed : corolla 5-parted. 
1. S. nigrum, L. Herbaccous, mostly pubescent with simple hairs; stem 
erect, branching ; the branchlets wing-angled, and more or less toothed ; leaves 
petioled, oblong-ovate, toothed or Éntire ; flowers somewhat umbelled, drooping 
small, white; berry black. — Damp soil, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. 
July ~ Sept. — Stem 1°-3° high, diffuse. Leaves 2'-4! long, when in pair 
unequal. Corolla 4" — 6" wide. Berry 2” - 3" in diameter. Wi 
2. S. Radula, Vahl Shrubby, and very rough throughout with per d 
rigid rusty stellate hairs; leaves oblong, entire, acute, tapering into a short pe 
ole; cymes slender, long-peduncled, once or twice forking, mabyee c 
longer than the leaves; flowers small, linear in the bud ; corolla white, € QUEE 
parted, the lobes linear-lanceolate, obtuse; anthers hairy.— South Florida. — : 
Leaves 2'-3'long. Cymes 3'-4'long. Corolla 5" wide. uo m 
3. S. verbascifolium, L. Shrubby, and hoary throughout with dense — — 
soft stellate hairs; leaves large, ovate-oblong, acute at each end, entire; So 
on long and very stout peduncles, forking, compactly many-flowered ; flowers 
~obor ute in the bud; calyx-lobes ovate, acute; corolla-lobes oblong, 
: obtuse , anthers oblong, twice as long as the slender filaments ; ovary 
~ Bonth Florida. Oct- Dec. — Shrub 49-59 high. Leaves 6'- 
