﻿The more usual form of this plant on Nantucket is only slightly 

 pubescent, and has more or less zig-zag and wing-angled stem and 

 branches; the leaves are ovate to lanceolate, often rhombic and 

 attenuate, cuneately narrowed into rather short petioles, and 

 entire to openly low sinuate or irregularly dentate, usually with 

 acutish teeth, the lower surface minutely appressed pubsecent; 

 inflorescence subumbelliform, the flowers 26, on strigillose pedi- 

 cels; corolla white, yellowish-green at the center; calyx lobes ovate- 

 oblong to oblong, becoming 2-3 mm. long, loosely spreading or 

 recurved in fruit; anthers 1.5-2 mm. long, the filaments slightly 

 pubescent; ovary pubescent; style not protruding; berry be- 

 coming over I cm. in diameter; seeds 1.5 mm. broad. On 

 Martha's Vineyard I have collected a much smaller variety, 

 reduced and more delicate in all its parts; also a larger form, with 

 purplish-tinged flowers. 



I peregrinum sp. nov. 



Similar to Solanum nigrum, duller green, rather low, branched 

 from the base, the stem and branches slightly if at all zig-zag, 

 somewhat angled but not winged, roughish with scattered in- 

 curving hairs or, above, like the younger parts of the plant, 

 clothed with a whitened strigose pubescence ; leaves rather strongly 

 venose, thinly roughish pubescent on both surfaces with loosely 

 appressed hairs, the veins strigose; blades broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 abruptly contracted to slender petioles, sometimes slightly cordate 

 or subhastate, prevailingly deeply dentate with prominent, often 

 regular, obtuse or rounded teeth ; inflorescence corymbiform, the 

 flowers six to nine, on finally reflexed strigose pedicels ; corolla white, 

 3-4.5 mm. long, the lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, densely pubescent 

 on the outer surface, finally recurved; calyx lobes short, 1-1.5 

 mm., broadly ovate or triangular, usually only obscurely veined, 

 loosely spreading in fruit; anthers pale yellow, 2-2.5 "i^i- long, 

 the filaments bearded, i mm. or more in length; ovary densely 

 white pubescent; style slightly exserted; berry black, becoming 8 

 mm. in diameter, the seeds 2 mm. broad. 



Street sides and waste places in Nantucket where it is rather 

 more common than 5. nigrum, at least in the town; Surfside; 

 Siasconset. In full flower July 14, 1912; continues in bloom ' 

 through September. Not seen on Martha's Vineyard. Type: 

 Nantucket street, September 12, 1899, deposited in the herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden. 



