Solanum. 



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-flowered: pedicels in fruit clavate-thickened at summit: corolla nearly as the preced- 

 ing: berry globose. — Ic. iii. 30, t. 259; Dunal, 1. c. 153, with the small-leaved variety. 

 .S. Lmdlteiinerianiun, Scheele in Linn. xxi. 706. — Low grounds and thickets, W. Texas 

 (Berlandier, Lindlidmer, PrnV//i?, &c.) to Arizona ■? Coulter. (Mex.) 



++ ++ -H- Corolla angiiI:ite-5-lobed, ample and widely rotate, blue or violet, varying to white : 

 peduncles uiostiv siiort, terminal or becoming more or less lateral, thickened often as if into a 

 cupulate node at" the articulation of the slender pedicels: " berries purple," the base covered by 

 the apprcssed moderately accrescent calyx. 

 S, Xanti, Gray. Herbaceous nearly to the base, viscid-pubescent with simple hairs, or 

 glabrate : branches slender : leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, thinnish, entire or undulate- 

 repand, occasionally auriculate-lobed at the base, which is obtuse or rounded, or some of 

 the upper acute, or the larger subcordate : cyme often forked: corolla about an inch in 

 diameter. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 90, & Bot. Calif. 1. 539. — California, throughout the 

 length of the State and into the borders of Nevada: confused in collections with the fol- 

 lowing species. Calyx lobes (as in that) ovate or triangular, equalling or shorter than the 

 short and broad tube. Style much exserted. Pubescence of jointed viscid hairs, some of 

 them gland-tipped. 



Var. Wallacei, Gray, 1. c. Leaves and flowers much larger; the former sometimes 

 4 inches long, and the violet corolla fully an inch and a half in diameter: branches and 

 the forking cyme villous. — Island of Santa Catalina off San Pedro, Cahfornia, Wallace. 

 (Coulter's no. 58(3, without flowers, may be a glabrous form of this.) 

 S. umbelliferum, Esch. Woody below, tomentose-pubescent and cinereous with short 

 many-branched hairs, sometimes glabrate: flowering branchlets mostly short and leafy: 

 leaves rarely ovate and acute, commonly obovate and oblong, obtuse, entire, half inch to 

 an inch or two long, more or less acute or narrowed at base, or the lower and larger ones 

 rounded, on short petiole: umbels short-peduncled, few-scveral-flowered : corolla about 

 three-fourths inch in diameter. — Esch. in Mem. Acad. Petrop. x. 281. S. Califonncum & 

 S. fjenisloidcs, Dunal in DC. 1. c. 86 ; the latter a starved and twiggy very small-leaved form, 

 of arid soil or the dry season. — California, common from the foot-hills to the coast, pro- 

 ducing handsome blue (rarely white) flowers throughout the season. 



•i— -i— Pubescence of stellate hairs or down: cells of the anther opening only by a short terminal 

 trnnsverse slit or hole: corolla 5-prtrted, downy outside: peduncles usually terminal, erect, 

 rather long and stout, bearing a many-flowered cyme. 



S. verbascifolium, L. Shrub erect, very soft-tomcntose throughout: leaves ovate, 

 rounded at base (4 to 10 inches long), entire, very hoary beneath: corolla white, its lobes 

 ovate : ovary woolly. — Jacq. Vind. i. t. 13. — Key West, Florida; also in Mexico near the 

 Texan borders. (Tropics.) 



S. Blodgettii, Chapm. Shrub spreading, with rather slender branches, hoary with a 

 fine somewhat furfuraceous and roughish pubescence: leaves narrowly oblong, obtusish 

 at both ends (3 to 5 inches long), greenish and roughish above, soft and canescent beneath, 

 entire: cyme twice or thrice forked: pedicels as long as the flower, erect in fruit: corolla 

 white, deeply 5-parted, its lobes lanceolate (4 lines long) : ovary glabrous : berry green, turn- 

 ing red. — Fl. 349. — Key West, &c.. South Florida, Dr. Ilasler, Blodijctt, Palmer. Perhaps 

 merely an unarmed form of some normally prickl}' species, allied to S. lanceo'foUum and 

 S. iyneum. 



* * * * Perennials, or one or two introduced weeds here annuals, more or loss prickly : anthers 

 more or less elongated and tajjering at the apex; the cells opening only by a terminal lude : 

 berries in all our species glabrous. 



-I— Corolla deei)Iy 5-parted and not plaited: leaves entire : scurfy down stellate: calyx 5-toothed: 

 peduncles terminal or soon lateral: berries red. 



S. Bahamense, L. Shrubby, beset with straight and subulate tawny prickles: leaves 

 lanceolate-oblong, obtusely j)ointed or obtuse (2 to 4 inches long), sometimes repand, 

 stellate-scurfy with a minute roughish pubescence, which is denser but scarcely canescent 

 beneath: flowers racemose, on slender pedicels which are recurved in fruit: divisions 

 of the purplish or whitish corolla (3 or 4 lines long) linear with taperitig tii)s, a little hairy. 

 — Dill. Elth. t. 271, fig. 250. S. radula, Chapm., 1. c. not Vahl. — Keys of Florida, Blodgett, 

 Palmer. (W. Ind.) 



+— -I— Corolla 5-parted and not plaited: leaves siuuate-lobcd or pinnatifid: no scurf, and the 

 pubescence all of simple hnirs: calyx deeply 5-clefl: antiiers broadly lanceolate: peduncles 



