106 NIGHTSHADES. 
outside, in thinner styles and filaments, the latter not shorter 
than the anthers, in more acute teeth of the calyx and in almost 
spherical transparently green (not orange-colored and mostly 
eggshaped) berries with larger seeds. 
Fie. XLIX. 
Fig. XLIX.—(Solanum vescum).—Flowering and fruit- 
ing branchlet, 
S. vescum, so 
called on  ac- 
count of its 
berries _—_ being 
used for food by 
the Aborigines, 
, is not quite so 
tall and woody 
as 8. aviculare ; 
both may grow 
intermixed, but 
oftener one may 
occupy one tract 
of the country, 
while the other 
predominates in 
adjoining ~—re- 
gions. These 
twoafforda good 
opportunity to 
contrast specific 
differences. The 
similarity of 
both to each 
other forbids to 
recommend the 
fruit of the Gun- 
yang as edible, 
although the To- 
mato (Solanum 
Lycopersicum) 
of South Ame- 
rica, the Egg- 
