NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 713 



Alabama: Over the State ; -waste places. Flowers white, June to October ; fruit 

 ripe Aus;u8t to October. Abundant. Annual. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in Orbis totius cultis." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanum gracile Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 1 : 54. 1852. Slender Nightshade. 



Erroneously referred to S. hirsiitum by Mohr in Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 26. 1897. 



Annual, 1^ to 2 feet high, erect or decumbent at the base, stem and branches terete, 

 somewhat cinereous by the close pubescence ; leaves oblong-ovate, attenuated, cuneate 

 at the base, acutish, jiubescent and eiliate, f to H inches long, f to | inch wide, short- 

 petioled ; peduncles extra-axillary, about I inch long, spreading-retlexed in fruit; 

 }»e(licels umbellate or subumbellate, shorter than the peduncles ; flowers small ; calyx 

 Jobes short, rather obtuse ; ti laments smooth; style bearded at the base ; fruit black, 

 of a bronzy hue, i inch in diameter. 



Southern Brazil, Argentina. 



Alabama : A common ballast weed spreading over low waste places. Mobile 

 County, abundant in thickets bordering the swamps along the Mobile River. Pro- 

 ducing its fruit to perfection throughout the summer and fall. 



Type locality : "In Brasiliae provincia Rio de Janeiro * * * circa Buenos 

 Ayres * * * iu ^Montevideo * « * in Chili ad Rancagua." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanum rubrum Mill. Diet. ed. 8, no. 4. 1768. Red Nightshade. 



Solanum nodiftorum var. rithrum Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Tnd. 437. 1864. 



The form with black berries. ' 



Annual froiu a long tibrous root. Stem smoothish, muricately denticulate along 

 the angles, like the branchlets; leaves repand-denticulate or subentire, peduncles 

 erect-spreading, about ^ inch long; pedicels somewhat shorter, strongly reflexed in 

 fruit, flowers smaller than in the last with the short calyx lobes oval, obtuse. 



Tropical America. 



Louisianiau area. Western Florida. 



Alabama : Mobile County, like the last, a common and persistent ballast weed 

 slowly spreading to waysides along the river front. .June to October. 



Type locality : "The seeds * * * came from the West Indies." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanum pseudocapsicum L. Sp. PL 1 : 184. 1753. Jerusalem Cherry. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 228. 



Madeira, Azores. 



Louisianiau area. Naturalized in Florida and South Carolina. 



Alabama: Metamorphic hills. This erect low shrub appears to be well estab- 

 lished in thickets and hedge rows. Tallapoosa County, near Dadevillc Lee County, 

 Auburn {Earle iS' Inderivood). Flowers in June. Fruit globose, scarlet. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Madera." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. Icon. Rar. t. 41. 1781-1793. Spiny Nightshade. 



Solanum mammosum Ell. Sk. 1:281. 1817. Not L. ( ?) 



Chap. Fl. 349. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 230. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 298. 

 Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 442. 



West Indies, Mexico to Brazil, Ceylon. 



Louisianiau area. Texas along the coast to Florida and North Carolina. 



Alabama: Lower Pine belt to Littoral belt. Dry sandy pastures. Baldwin 

 County, shores of Fish River Bay, October 4, in fruit; berries f inch in diameter, 

 bright flame-scarlet. Infrequent. Sufl'rutescent. Springhill, Avaste ground, near 

 the hotel. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanum sisymbrifolium Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 2 : 25. 1793. 



Solanum balbisii Dunal, Hist. Solan. 232, t. 3. 1813. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 641 ; ed. 3, 322. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 230. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 298. 



Perk, Southern Brazil, Buenos Ayres. 



Louisianiau area. Naturalized from Georgia and Florida to Texas. 



Alabama : Central Prairie belt to Coast plain. Adventive from South America. 

 Waste iilaces, near dwellinjis. Montgomery, roadsides in the suburbs. Mobile 

 County, waste places aloug the bauks of the river. Flowers pale blue, May to July; 



