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mens broadly oval, entire or wavy-margined, decurrent into a winged petiole: 

 peduncles 2-3 cm. long, slender, erect, but reflexed and often 5 cm. long at 

 maturity: calyx generally glabrous except the margin which is stellate-ciliate ; 

 lobes triangular: corolla 1.5-2 cm. in diameter, yellow with dark center: 

 fruiting calyx generally a little shorter than in the next following species. — 

 Pinelands. 



5. P. angustifolia Nutt. Stems from slender elongate and creeping rootstocks, 

 with the foliage often glabrous except the margins of the calyx-lobes or rarely 

 sparsely stellate all over when young, diffusely branched, angled: leaf -blades 

 linear or linear-oblanceolate, tapering into the petiole, entire, thickish; nerves 

 except the midrib, generally obsolete: peduncles 2-3 cm. long, filiform, gen- 

 erally erect, 4-5 cm. long and reflexed at maturity: calyx glabrous, except the 

 stellate-ciliate margins of the rounded triangular lobes: corolla about 2 cm. 

 broad, yellow and with purple center: anthers yellow: fruiting calyx 1.5-2 cm. 

 long, ovoid, obscurely angled and scarcely sunken at the base. — Pinelands, — 

 F. K. 



2. SOLANUM [Tourn.] L. Herbs, shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaf-blades 

 entire, toothed, or lobed. Flowers variously clustered. Calyx sometimes 

 accrescent. Corolla rotate, of various colors: lobes longer than the tube. 

 Anthers narrow, converging or united, much longer than the filaments. 



Herbs. 



Corolla mostly less than 8 mm. wide : calyx-lobes spreading at maturity : foliage 



glabrous or" nearly so. 1. 8. nigrum. 



Corolla mostly over 8 mm. wide : calyx-lobes appressed to 



the berry : "foliage puberulent or pubescent. 2. 8. gracile. 



Shrubs or trees. 



Leaf-blades velvety-tomentose beneath, unarmed. 



Corolla-lobes ovate to oval-ovate : ovary pubescent : 



berries yellow. 3. 8. vcrhascifoliiim. 



Corolla-lobes linear to linear-lanceolate or lanceolate : 



ovary glabrous : berries red. 4. 8. Blodgettii. 



Leaf-blades finely and rather harshly pubescent beneath, 



often spiny. 5. 8. hahamcnse. 



1. S. nigrum L. Herbaceous annual, 1-12 dm. tall: leaf-blades ovate to 

 oblong-ovate, 2-8 cm. long, undulate or deeply repand: calyx-lobes fully 1 mm. 

 long: corolla white: lobes lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate: berries subglobose, 

 4-6 mm. in diameter. — Hammocks and cultivated grounds. — F. K. {Ber., 

 Bah., Cuba, Ant.) — Common-nightshade. 



2. S. gracile Link. Herbaceous annual, 1-14 dm. tall: leaf-blades ovate to 

 oblong-ovate, 2-8 cm. long, undulate or deeply repand: calyx-lolies fully 1 mm. 

 long: corolla Avhite; lobes lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate: berries subglobose, 

 4-6 mm. in diameter. — Pinelands and coastal sand-dunes. — {Bah., Cuba, Ant.) 



3. S. verbascifolium L. Shrub or small tree: leaf -blades oblong to oblong- 

 ovate or ovate, 10-30 cm. long, velvety-tomentose, entire: calyx-lobes ovate, 

 eiliate, obtuse: corolla white, 15-18 mm. wide; lobes ovate to oval-ovate, 

 acutish, eiliate: anthers oblong: ovary pubescent: berries globular, 10-20 mm. 

 in diameter, yellow. — Hammocks and waste places. — F. K. (Bah., Cuba, Ant.) 



POTATO-TKEE. 



4. S. Blodgettii Chapm. Shrub with simple or sparingly branched stems, 3-18 

 dm. tall: leaf -blades oblong, often narrowly so, 5-15 cm. long, hoary-scurfy 

 and tomentulose, undulate: calyx-lobes oblong: corolla white or bluish, 14-17 

 mm. wide; lobes linear to linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse: anthers 

 linear: ovary glabrous: berries red, 4-6 mm. in diameter. — Everglades and 

 low pinelands. — F. K. (Bah.) 



5. S. bahamense L. Shrub with much-branched stem, 5-20 dm. tall: leaf- 

 blades oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 4-12 cm. long, thinly rough-pubescent, 



