SOLANACE^E. (xiGHTSFIADE FAMILY.) 3A9 



4. S. Blodgettii, n. sp. Stem shruhby? smooth, the branches, like the up 

 per surface of the leaves, roughened with a close stellate (greenish) pubescence ; 

 leaves oblong, obtuse, entire, narrowed into a short petiole, hoary-tomcntose 

 beneath, like the ratlicr short-pcduncled many-flowered forking cymes ; calyx 

 small, obconical, with short rounded teeth; corolla purple ? deeply parted, 3-4 

 times as long as the calyx, with lanceolate acute lobes ; anthers nearly sessile, 

 linear, narrowed at the apex, shorter than the style. — South Florida. — Leaves 

 3' -4' long. Flowers j' in diameter. 



* * Pricldy : flowers racemed : corolla most]}/ angularly lohtd. 



.5. S. Carolinense, L. Hirsute with stellate hairs ; stems erect ; leaves 

 ovate-oblong, angularly lobcd or toothed, abruptly contracted into a short pet- 

 iole; the veins and petiole, like the stem, armed with straight yellow prickles ; 

 racemes simple, slender, 3 -several-flowered; calyx-lobes acuminate. — Var. Flo- 

 RiDANA (S. Floridanum, Dunal) is less hairy ; stems ascending from a creep- 

 ing base ; leaves narrower, sinuate-lobed or toothed, with more numerous and 

 stronger prickles. — Dry waste places, Florida to North Carolina. June- Sept. 

 U — Stem 1°- U° high. Leaves 3' -5' long. Corolla 9"- 12" wide, blue or 

 white. 



6 S. aculeatissimura, Jacq. Plant beset throughout with bristly hairs 

 and stout prickles; stem diflnsely branched; leaves petioled, ovate or oval, 

 membranaceous, acute, rounded or cordate at the base, acutely lobed or toothed ; 

 racemes lateral, slender, 2-5-flowered, shorter than the petioles; corolla-lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, white ; anthers acuminate ; berry globose, yellow. — Waste 

 places, Florida to North Carolina. Probably introduced from Mexico. June- 

 Sept. ® — Stem l°-20 high. Leaves 3' - G' long. Corolla 6" - 9" wide, the 

 lobes recurved. 



7. S. mammosum, L. Pubescent with stellate hairs, and the stem, pet- 

 ioles, and nerves of the leaves armed with stout flattened prickles ; stem stout, 

 erect ; leaves large, ovate, sinuate-lobed, slightly cordate ; racemes cymose, 

 long-pedunclcd, many-flowered ; corolla large, purple, with ovate spreading 

 lobes ; berry conical-ovate. — Road-sides, and waste ground, Florida and 

 Georgia. July -Sept. ® — Stem 2° -3° high. Leaves 6' -9' long. Co- 

 rolla Ij' wide. Anthers narrowed upward, on slender filaments. Caly.x 

 unarmed. 



8. S. hirsutum, Nutt., not of Dunal. Dwarf, hirsute ; leaves broadly 

 obovate, very obtuse, nearly entire, narrowed at the base, prickly on the midrib ; 

 racemes 3-flowered ; peduncles filiform. — Milledgeville, Georgia. — Roots pro- 

 fusely creeping. Stem a span high, beset with yellowish hairs. Calyx ycrj 

 rough. Flowers purple 1 ( * ) 



5. Pseudo-Capsicum, L., the Jkrusalem Cherry, is sometimes sponta- 

 neous near dwellings. 



S. TUBEROSUM, L., is the Irish Potato, as it is here called ; S. Melongb- 

 KA, L., the Egg-Plant; and S. Lycopjersicum, L. (Lycopersicum esculentum, 

 Mill.) the Tomato. 



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