SOLAXACBAB 227 



about an inch long; calyx^cgmentt short; corolla white, with ovate-oblong spread. 

 ing lobes. Berry hollow, terete and slender, ovoid-oblong, or depressed-globost'i 

 angular or torose, usually red when mature. 

 2lab. Gardens. Nat. of S. America. Fl. July. Fr. Octo. 



Obs. Cultivated for its fruit, which is powerfully stimulant, 

 and much used as a condiment. 



329. IVrCOPER'SICUM, Tournef. 



[Gr. Lykos, a wolf, and Persikon, a peach ; having reference to the fruit.] 

 Calyx 5- to 10-parted, spreading, persistent. Corolla rotate ; border 

 plicate, 5- to 10-lobed. Stamens 6 or 6, exserted; anthers oblong- 

 conical, cohering by an elongated membrane at summit, opening on 

 the inner side. Berry 2- or 3-celled ; seeds reniform, pulpy -villous. 

 Leaves odd-pinnately dissected ; flowers in lateral racemose clusters. 



1. L. KSCUL&VTUM, Milhr. Leaves interruptedly pseudo-pinnate, 

 the leaflets lance-ovate, incised-serrate, petiolulate ; fruit mostly 

 depressed, orbicular and torose. 

 Solanum Lycopersicum. L. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 137. 

 ESCULENT LYCOPERSICUM. Tomato. Love-apple. 



Annual ; greyish-green, viscid-pubescent, and rather fetid. Stem 2 to, 4 feet long, 

 branching, straggling and procumbent unless supported, flowers yellow. 

 Berries 1 to 3 or 4 inches in diameter (sometimes globular and smaller), usually 

 red, or reddish-orange, when mature. 

 Halt. Gardens. Nat. of Spanish America. FL June. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. Well known, and extensively cultivated for its fruit, which 

 is used as a vegetable sauce. 



** Anthers opening by terminal pores. 



330. SOL,A v JVU!tt, L. 



[A name of uncertain derivation, and obscure meaning.] 

 Calyx mostly 5-parted, spreading, persistent. Corolla rotate; 

 border plicate, usually 5-lobed. Stamens exserted, often slightly 

 cohering. Berry mostly 2-celled. Leaves various; flowers mostly 

 in pedunculate cymose clusters. 



2 1. Stem and leaves unarmed. 



1. S. TUBERO V SUM, L. Rhizomas tuberous, oblong, or roundish; 

 leaves interruptedly pseudo-pinnate, the leaflets ovate, entire; 

 fruit globular, rather small, greenish-yellow. 

 TUBEROUS SOLANUM. Common Potato. Irish Potato. 



Stem herbaceous and annual, 2 to 3 feet high, simple, angular, thickish, finally 

 decumbent, the base and roots producing numerous fleshy rhizomas. Flowers 

 in terminal nodding cymes, on a common peduncle 3 to 5 inches in length; pedicels 

 articulated; corolla bluish-white; berries about half an inch in diameter. 

 /ZoA. Gardens, and fields. Nat. of S. America. Fl. June. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. This most important plant is known, and cultivated for its 

 esculent tuberous rhizomas, by every occupant of land. It has be- 

 come one of the indispensable crops, for a family. Long culture 

 lias, of course, produced tubers of various color and quality. 

 BBYAST (in his Flora Piaetetica, 1783,) says, "the com- 



