108 AUT. BOT, 



ad Kentucky — usualy mistaken for S. Virg, but 

 smooth smaller, fl. white small, berries pisiform. 



757, Sol. virginicum L. usually bl^ndedwith 

 S. carolinian. by our botanists,nearer to J^. obH- 

 quatum, leaves obliqual angular pubescent,stem 

 leaves and cahx subspinose, ilowers racemose. 



758, Sol. bidentatum Raf. caule herb. teres 

 inermis, fol. ovatis vel subcord. acutis integris 

 vel basi bidentatis tenuis levigatis, nmbeHs sepe 

 Sfloris — SiciUa, Itaha, and nean to S. patulum of 

 India. 



759, Sol. bonariense L very near S. virg. 

 obHq. and carol. leaves obHqual. but a shrub. 

 Paraguay. 



760, Sol. coagulans Vahl. Arabia, Egypt. t 



761, Sol. pseudocapsicum L. Azores,Maderd, 

 forming a subg. Minoti by caHx and coroUa 

 5parted anthers distinct, 



762, Sol. pilosum Raf. acul. albo piloso hir- 

 suto, fol. obUquis ovatobl. glaucis acutis, sinuato 

 pinnatif. lobis dentatis acutis, cymis peduncula- 

 tis paucifl. — South America, sent me as Sol. de- 

 currens (no such name,) near my S. dimidia^ 

 tqm, but very hairy, leaves small uncial, flowers 

 5 or 6 vcry large, calix 5fid, iobes of coroUa uni- 

 nerve patent acute, stamens as jn 753, hardly 

 porose. 



763, PARMENTIERA Raf. diff; Solanum, 

 cal. 5fid. coroUa .51oba, stam. 5 antheris ellipt. 

 2Ioc. intus dehiscens non porosis, stylo elongato, 

 stig. capit. bacca 21oc. tuberosa^ jol. pinnatis, 



Jl, corymbosis — this G. for the Potato was pro- 

 posed 100 years ago in France, it has since 

 been blendcd with Lycopersicon difiering by 6 

 to 9 stamens, berry multilocular. 



Parmentiera edulis Raf. Sol. tuberosum O. 

 fol. interrupte pinnatis, foliolis ovatis acum. in- 



