520 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Range: California to Iowa, New York, and Florida. 

 Specimens examined: North Yakimn, Henderson 2496. 



2. Physalis ixocarpa Brot.; Hornein. llort. Hafn. Siippl. 26. 1819. 

 Type locality: "llahitat unknown." Probably originally from Mexico. 

 Specimens examined: Near Bingen, Sulsdorf 2284. 



SOLANUM. 



Perennial ; climbing vine ; leaves 3-lobed or 3-di vided 2. S. dulcamara. 



Annuals; erect or prostrate. 



Plant armed with prickles; flowers yellow; leaves pinnatilid 1. .S'. ro.stratirn. 



Plant not prickly. 



Stems prostrate ; leaves deeply pinnatifid 3. >S. (rijiorum . 



.Stems erect; leaves ovate, repand or entire 4. iS'. nigrum. 



1. Solanum rostratum Dunal, Sol. 231. 1813. 

 Type locality: " In liorto Monspeliensi fultum." 

 Eange: Colorado and Nebraska to Texas. 



Specimens examined: Walla Walla, Piper, August 13, 1897 (mtroduced). 



2. Solanum dulcamara L. Sp. PI. 1: 185. 1753. Bittersweet. 

 Type locality: European. 



Specimens examined: Parker, Z>?/?in, August 8, 1901; North Yakima, Watt, August, 

 1895; Piper 1889; IJock Lake, Lake d- Hull 583; Spokane, K'eagcr 545, Selah \ alley, 

 Cotton 882. 



3. Solanum triflorum Nutt. Gen. 1: 128. 1818.- 



Type locality: " Near Fort Mandan." Collected by Nuttall. 

 Range: Washington to Saskatchewan and New Mexico. 



Specimens examined: Columbia River, Henderson 2495; Ellensburg, Wfnted. July, 

 1897; North Yakima, Piper 1806. 

 Zonal distribution: Upper Sonoran. 



4. Solanum nigrum L. Sp. PI. 1: 186. 1753. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Orbis totius cultis." 

 Range: Temperate North America. 



Specimens examined: Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, LyaU in 1859; Tacoma, Flett 

 67; west Klickitat County, Sulsdorf 1480, 2317, 2318; North Yakima, Piper 1787, Ophir, 

 Elmer 525; Wawawai, Elmer, June, 1897; Squaw Creek, Cotton 871. 



Zonal distribution: Upper Sonoran and Transition. 



DATURA. 



Flowers white; prickles of the fruit unequal, the lower shorter \. D. stramonium. 



^'lowers purplish , prickles of the fruit e(|ual 2. D tatula 



1. Datura stramonium L Sp. Pi 1: 179 1753 Jimson weed. 

 Type locality: "IIal)itat in America, nunc vulgaris per Europp.m ' 



Reported in Suksdorf's list, but we have seen no Washington specimens. 



2. Datura tatula L Sp Pled 2. 1:256 1762 

 Type locality. Unknown 



Specimens examined. Pullman, Piper, September 8, 1894; near Wawawai, Piper in 

 1902. 



