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POTATO FAMILY. 



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Solanum Dulcamara 



Nightshade. Blue Bindweed. Fellonwort. 

 Bittersweet. (Fig. 3218.) 



Solanum Diilcamaya X,. Sp. PI. 185. 1753. 



Perennial, pubescent with simple hairs or gla- 

 brate, stem climbing or straggling, somewhat 

 woody below, branched, 2°-S° long. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate or hastate in outline, 2'-4' long, 

 i'-2li' wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 usuall}' slight!}' cordate at the base, some of 

 them entire, some with a lobe on one side near 

 the base, some deeply 3-lobed or 3-divided, with 

 the terminal segment miich the largest; cymes 

 compound, lateral; pedicels slender, articulated 

 at the base, spreading or drooping; flowers blue, 

 purple, or white, 5"-"]" broad; calyx-lobes short, 

 oblong, obtuse, persistent at the base of the 

 berrj-; corolla deeplj- 5-cleft, its lobes triangular- 

 lanceolate, acuminate; berr}- oval or globose, red. 



In waste places or in moist thickets, sometimes ' 

 appearing as if indigenous. New Brunswick to Min- 

 nesota, south to New Jersey, Pennsj-Ivania and 

 Kansas. May-Sept. Old names are Woody Night- 

 shade, Poison-flower, Poison- or Snake-berry. Nat- 

 uralized from Europe. Native also of Asia. 



Solanum triquetrum Cav., a Texan and Mexican nearly glabrous herb, scarcely climbing, with 

 somewhat ridged stems, 3-lobed deltoid-cordate or hastate leaves, lateral few-flowered cymes and 

 globose red berries, is reported from Kansas. 



7. LYCOPERSICON Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 7. 1759. 

 Annual, or rarely perennial, coarse branching or feebly climbing herbs, with 1-2-pinnately 

 divided leaves, and lateral irregular raceme-like cymes of small yellowish flowers opposite 

 the leaves. Calyx 5-parted, or rarely 6-parted, the segments linear or lanceolate. Corolla 

 rotate, the tube very short, the limb 5-cleft or rarely 6-cleft, plicate. Stamens 5 (rarely 6), 

 inserted on the throat of the corolla; filaments very short; anthers elongated, connate or 

 connivent, introrsely longitudinallj' dehiscent. Ovary 2-3-celled; style simple; stigma small, 

 capitate. Berry in the wild plants globose or pyriforni, much modified in cultivation, the calyx 

 persistent at its base. [Greek, wolf-peach. ] 

 About 4 species, natives of South America. 



I. Lycopersicon Lycopersicon 



(L. )Karst. Tomato. Love Apple. 

 Cherry Tomato. (Fig. 3219.) 



Solanum Lvcopetsicum L. Sp. PI. 1S5. 1753. 

 L. esculenlum Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8. 1768. 

 Lycopersicum Lycopersiciim Karst. Deutsch. 

 Fl. 966. iSSo-83. 



Viscid-pubescent, much branched, i°- 

 3° high, the branches spreading. Leaves 

 petioled, pinnately divided, e'-iS' long, 

 the segments stalked, the larger 7-9, ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute, dentate, 

 lobed or again divided, 2.'-\' long, with 

 several or numerous smaller, sometimes 

 very small ones interspersed; clusters sev- 

 eral-flowered; peduncles i'-3' long; flow- 

 ers 5"-S" broad; calyx-segments about 

 equalling the corolla; berry the well- 

 known tomato or love-apple. 



Escaped from cultivation and occasionally 

 spontaneous from sfnilhern New York and 

 Pennsylvania southward. June-Sept. 



8. LYCIUM L. Sp. PL 191. 1753. 

 Shrubs, or woody vines, often spiny, with small alternate entire leaves, commonly with 

 smaller ones fascicled in their axils, and white greenish or purple, axillary or terminal, soli- 



