ORD. XII. Solanacee, seu Luride. 237 
SOLANUM NIGRUM. GARDEN NIGHTSHADE. 
SYNONYMA. Solanum. Pharm. Dale. 170. Rutty. 489. 
Bergius. 140. Murray. v. i. 497. Lewis. 608. ° Solanum offici- 
narum. Bauh. Pin. 166. Solanum vulgare. Park. Theat. S46. 
Solanum hortense. Gerard. Emac. 339. Ray. Syn. 254. Hist. 
672. Solanum nigrum. Hall. Helv.n. 579. Hudson. Flor. Ang. 
78. With. Bot. Arr. 236. Flor. Dan. 460. Curt. Flor. Lond. 
ii, 16. eA 
Pentandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Pl. 251. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor_rotata,” Anthere subcoatitee;-apice poro gemino 
dehiscentes.. Bacca 2-locularis. : 
Sp. Ch. SS. caule inermi herbaceo, fol. ovatis dentato-angulatis, ra= 
cemis distichis nutantibus. 
ROOT annual, branched, whitish, hung with numerous small 
fibres. Stalk above a foot in height, alternately branched, formed. 
into angles by a foliaceous membrane, swelled at the base of each 
branch, rough, and of a dingy purple colour. Leaves on footstalks, 
alternate, irregularly ovate, sinuated, or indentated, and clothed 
with soft hairs. Flowers in a species of umbel, upon a common 
lateral flower stalk. Calyx divided into five small short permanent 
segments. Corolla separated into five segments, which are oval, 
pointed, spreading, and of a whitish colour. Filaments five, short, 
downy, terminated by yellow oblong contiguous anther. Germen 
roundish, supporting a tapering Mosray style, furnished with a 
‘round stigma. Fruit a round two-eelled berry, changing from a 
green to a black colour, and containing several kidney-shaped 
yellowish seeds. 
It is common about rubbish, dunghills, and in neglected gardens, 
producing its flowers during all the summer months, 
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