322 SOLANACE.E. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 



* Unarmed: cymes or racemes corymbed: corollas-parted. 



1. S. nigrum, L. Herbaceous, mostly pubescent with simple hairs; 

 stem erect, branching ; the branchlets wing-angled, and often more or less 

 toothed ; leaves petioled, oblong-ovate, toothed or entire ; flowers somewhat 

 nmbellecl, drooping, small, white ; berry black. Around homesteads. July - 

 Sept. Stem l-3 high, diffuse. Leaves 2' -4' long, when in pairs, un- 

 equal. Corolla 4" - 6" wide. Berry 2" - 3" in diameter. 



2. S. Bahamense, L. Shrubby, and very rough throughout with short 

 rigid rusty stellate hairs ; leaves oblong, entire, acute, tapering into a short 

 petiole ; cymes slender, long-peduncled, once or twice forking, many-flowered, 

 longer than the leaves ; flowers small, linear in the bud ; corolla white, deeply 

 parted, the lobes linear-lanceolate, obtuse ; anthers hairy. South .Florida. 

 Leaves 2' - 3' long. Cymes 3' - 4' long. Corolla 5" wide. 



3. S. verbascifolium, L. Shrubby, and hoary throughout with dense 

 soft stellate hairs ; leaves large, ovate-oblong, acute at each end, entire ; cymes 

 on long and very stout peduncles, forking, compactly many-flowered ; flowers 

 globose-obovate in the bud ; calyx lobes ovate, acute ; corolla lobes oblong, 

 obtuse ; anthers oblong, twice as long as the slender filaments ; ovary woolly. 

 South Florida. Oct. - Dec. Shrub 4 - 5 high. Leaves 6' - 9' long. Co- 

 rolla I' wide. 



4. S. Blodgettii, Chapm. Stem shrubby ? smooth, the branches, like 

 the upper surface of the leaves, roughened with a close stellate (greenish) 

 pubescence; leaves oblong, obtuse, entire, short-petioled, hoary-tomentose be- 

 neath, like the many-flowered forking cymes; calyx small, obconical, with 

 short rounded teeth ; corolla purple ? deeply parted, 3-4 times as long as the 

 calyx, with lanceolate acute lobes ; anthers nearly sessile, linear, narrowed at 

 the apex, shorter than the style. South Florida. Leaves 3' - 4' long. 

 Flowers ^' in diameter. 



* * Prickly : flowers racemed: corolla mostly angularly lobed. 



5. S. Carolinense, L. Hirsute with stellate hairs ; stems erect ; leaves 

 ovate-oblong, angularly lobed or pinnatifid, abruptly contracted into a short 

 petiole ; the veins and petiole, like the stem, armed with straight yellow 

 prickles ; racemes simple, slender, 3 - several-flowered ; calyx lobes acumi- 

 nate. Dry waste places. June -Sept. ^ Stem 1- 1^ high. Leaves 

 3' - 5' long. Corolla 9" - 12" wide, blue or white. Berry yellow. 



6. S. aculeatissimum, Jacq. Plant beset throughout with bristly hairs 

 and stout prickles ; stem diffusely branched ; leaves ovate or oval, membrana- 

 ceous, acutely lobed or toothed; racemes lateral, slender, 2-5-flowered; co- 

 rolla lobes lanceolate, white ; berry globose, yellow. Waste places. June- 

 Sept. Stem l-2 high. Leaves 3' -6' long. Corolla 6" -9" wide, the 

 lobes recurved. 



7. S. sisymbriifolium, Lam. Glandular-villous and prickly; leaves 

 large, deeply pimiatifid, the oblong divisions lobed and toothed ; racemes 

 many-flowered; corolla 5-lobed, pale blue; berry globose, partly included 

 in the hispid calyx. Waste places, Georgia and Florida. Introduced. 

 Stem 3 - 5 high. Leaves 4' - 9' long. 



