Victorian Plants. 361 



SOX.A.ZTACBAB. 



SOLANUIVX. 



1586. Annual. 



A poisonous herb, often beset with short hairlets ; leaves 

 flaccid, almost ovate or verging into a rhomboid form, 

 somewhat denticulated or sinuous ; flowers very small, 

 drooping, in lateral umbel-like cymes ; corolla white, 

 deeply cleft, its lobes acute ; anthers coherent ; fruit 

 quite small, globular, black or green outside. (Probably 



. immigrated.) S. nigrum. 



Perennial, either herbaceous or shrubby ... ... 1587 



1587. Always without any prickles ... ... ... 1588 



Usually prickly 1590 



1588. Fruit orange-colored, mostly egg-shaped. 



Shrubby, tall, glabrous ; branches cylindrical, dark-purplish ; 

 leaves distinctly stalked, often lanceolar, undivided or 

 oftener some with few entire semilanceolar elongated 

 lobes ; corolla large, five-cleft to the middle, inside violet, 

 outside often whitish ; filaments shorter than the anthers, 

 the latter disconnected ; fruit large, poisonous. 



S. aviculare. 



Fruit greenish, mostly globular ... ... ... 1589 



1589. Leaves long-lobed. 



Shrubby, finally tall, glabrous ; branches robust, green, 

 very angular ; leaves large, sessile, decurrent, often lan- 

 ceolar, undivided or oftener some with few semilanceolar 

 elongated lobes ; corolla large, violet, slightly lobed ; 

 filaments about as long as the anthers, the latter discon- 

 nected ; fruit large. Figure 103. S. vescum. 



Leaves hardly lobed. 



Somewhat shrubby, seldom tall, always glabrous, .scantily 

 branched ; leaves generally narrow-lanceolar, rather elon- 

 gated, entire or near the base short-lobed ; corolla violet 

 inside ; anthers disconnected ; fruit moderately large, 

 nodding. S. simile. 



