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calyx armed -uith stout prickles, about one-third as long as the corolla, its 

 lobes ovatej acute; corolla "VA'hite, about 12 mm. broad; anthers ovate-lanceo- 

 late; berry globose, scarlet, glabrous, 1-2 em. in diameter. 



Waste and cultivated ground. Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence. Eleu- 

 thera and Cat Island ; recorded from Green Turtle Cay : — southern ITnited States ; 

 Bermuda ; ^Yest Indies and continental tropical America. Cockroach Berry. 



2. Solanum nigrum L. Sp. PI. 186. 1753. 



Solanum nodiflorum Dunal, Hist. Sol. 151. 1813. Not Jacq. 1793. 

 Solanum americanum Mill. Gard. Diet, ed, 8, no. 5. 1768. 

 Solanum purpuratum Bitter, Eepert. 12: 85. 1913. 



Annual, glabrous, or somewhat pubescent with simple hairs, 3-8 dm. high. 

 Leaves ovate, petioled, more or less inequilateral, 2-8 cm. long, thin, acute, 

 acuminate or acutish at the apex; peduncles lateral, umbellately 3-10-flowered; 

 pedicels 6-14 mm. long; flowers 8-10 mm. broad; calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 much shorter than the corolla, persistent at the base of the berry; filaments 

 somewhat pubescent; anthers obtuse; berries glabrous, globose, 8-10 mm. in 

 diameter, blacky on nodding peduncles. 



Waste and cultivated grounds, throughout the archipelago from Great Bahama 

 to Watling's, East Caicos, Grand Turk and Inagua : — all temperate and tropical 

 regions of both hemispheres. Consists of many races differing in length of pedicels 

 and size of flowers, the leaves varying from entire to coarsely toothed. Recorded by 

 Hitchcock as Solanum nigrum oleraceum ; by Small as Solanum gracile Link. Black 

 Nightshade. Ixk-berry. Gooma-bdsh. 



3. Solanum bahamense L. Sp. PI. 188. 1753. 



Solanum haJiamense lanceolatum Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 440. 1861. 

 Solanum suharmatum Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 240. 1809. 



A prickly or unarmed shrub, 2 m. high or less, the twigs, leaves and 

 inflorescence stellate ]3uberulent, the prickles slender. Leaves oblong to lanceo- 

 late, 4-12 cm. long, slender-petioled, acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed or 

 obtuse and often oblique at the base, the margin entire or somewhat undulate, 

 the veins rather distant; peduncles lateral, longer than the petioles; inflores- 

 cence racemiform, sometimes forked, few-several-flowered; pedicels blender, 

 thickened upward, 6-12 mm. long, nodding in fruit; calyx 1.5 mm. long, its 

 lobes ovate; corolla blue, rarely white, 10-15 mm. broad; berry red, globose, 

 6-8 mm, in diameter. 



White-lands and scrub-lands throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great 

 Bahama through the Biminis and Andros to Grand Turk Islands, Ambergris Cay and 

 Inagua :— Florida : Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Jamaica. Consists of many races, unarmed 

 or very prickly, with the leaves entire or toothed, and the flowers and fruits varying 

 considerably in size. Recorded by DoUey and by Hitchcock as Solanum ignaeum L. 

 Bahama Solanum. Canker-berry. 



4. Solanum verbascifolium L. Sp. PI. 184. 1753. 



A stellate-tomentulose unarmed shrub, 1-3 m. high, rarely forming a 

 small tree up to 10 m. high, with a trunk up to 1.5 dm. in diameter. Leaves 

 ovate to elliptic, rarely obovate, 1-3 dm. long, entire or very slightly repand, 

 acute, acuminate or obtuse at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, the 

 stout petioles 7 cm. long or less ; cymes terminal, several-many-flowered, long- 

 peduncled; pedicels stout, 6-12 mm. long; calyx 5-7 mm. long, densely stel- 

 late, its lobes triangular-ovate; corolla white, 10-15 mm. wide, its lobes ovate- 

 oblong; berry subglobose, 1-2 cm. in diameter, yellow. 



Waste places, scrub-lands, coppices and old fields, throughout the archipelago 

 from Great Bahama, Abaco and Andros to Mariguana and Dellis' Cay (Caicos) : — 

 Florida : West Indies : Mexico and Central America ; Old World tropics. Mullein- 

 leaved Solanum. Wild Tobacco. Sal\-e-bush. 



