156 SOLANACEAE. 



mew broadly oval, entire or wavy-margined, decurrent into a winged petiole: 

 peduncles 2-3 cm. long, slender, erect, but reflexed and often 5 cm. long at 

 maturity: calyx generally glabrous except the margin which is stellate-ciliate ; 

 lobes triangular: corolla 1.5-2 cm. in diameter, yellow with dark center: 

 fruiting calyx generally a little shorter than in the next following species. 

 Pinelands. 



5. P. angustifolia Xutt. Stems from slender elongate and creeping root stocks, 

 with the foliage often glabrous except the margins of the calyx-lobes or rarely 

 sparsely stellate all over when young, diffusely branched, angled: leaf -blades 

 linear or linear-oblanceolate, tapering into the petiole, entire, thickish; nerves 

 except the midrib, generally obsolete: peduncles 2-3 cm. long, filiform, gen- 

 erally erect, 4-5 cm. long and reSexed at maturity: calyx glabrous, except the 

 stellate-ciliate margins of the rounded triangular lobes: corolla about 2 cm. 

 broad, yellow and with purple center: anthers yellow: fruiting calyx 1.5-2 cm. 

 long, ovoid, obscurely angled and scarcely sunken at the base. Pinelands. 

 F. K. 



2. SOLANUM [Tourn.] L. Herbs, shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaf -blades 

 entire, toothed, or lobed. Flowers variously clustered. Calyx sometimes 

 accrescent. Corolla rotate, of various colors: lobes longer than the tube. 

 Anthers narrow, converging or united, much longer than the filaments. 



Herb*. 



Corolla mostly less than 8 mm. wide : calyx-lobes spreading at maturity : foliage 



glabrous or nearly so. 1. 8. nigrum. 



Corolla mostly over 8 mm. wide : calyx-lobe* oppressed to 



the berry : foliage pnbenilent or pubescent. 2. 8. yr.i. ,/, . 



Shrub* or trees. 



Leaf-blades velvety-tomentose beneath, unarmed. 



Corolla-lobes ovate to oval-ovate: ovary pubescent: 



berries yellow. 3. 8. cerbairtfoHum. 



Corolla-lobes linear to linear-lanceolate or lanceolate : 



ovary glabrous: berries red. 4. 8. Bloduc 1 1 \ ii. 



Leaf-blade* finely and ratber harshly pubescent beneath, 



often spiny. 5. 8. bahamente. 



1. 8. nigrum L. Herbaceous annual, 1-1- <lm. tall: leaf' Ma.lr- nvatr to 

 oblong-ovate, 2-8 cm. long, undulate or deeply repand: calyx-lobes fully 1 mm. 

 long: corolla white: lobes lanceolate to oblong- lanceolate: berries subglobose, 

 4-6 mm. in diameter. Hammocks and cultivated grounds. F. K. (Bcr., 

 Bah., Cuba, Ant.) COMMON-NIGHTSHADE. 



2. 8. gracile Link. Herbaceous annual. 1-14 dm. tall: leaf-blades ovate to 

 oblong-ovate, 2-8 cm. long, undulate or deeply repand: calyx-lobes fully 1 nun. 

 long: corolla white; lobes lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate: berries subglobose, 

 4-6 mm. in diameter. Pinelands and coastal sand-dunes. (Bah.. Cuba, Ant.) 



3. 8. verbasclfolium L. Shrub or small tree: leaf -blades oblong to oblong- 

 ovate or ovate, 10-30 cm. long, velvety-tomentose, entire: calyx-lobes ovate, 

 ciliate, obtuse: corolla white, 15-18 mm. wide; lobes ovate to oval-ovate, 

 aeutish, ciliate: anthers oblong: ovary pubescent: berries globular, 10-20 nun. 

 in diameter, yellow. Hammocks and waste places. F. K. (Bah., Cuba, Ant.) 

 POTATO-TRIE. 



4. 8. Blodgettii Chapm. Shrub with simple or sparingly branched stems, 3-18 

 dm. tall: leaf-blades oblong, often narrowly so, 5-15 cm. long, hoary-scurfy 

 and tomentulose, undulate: calyx-lobes oblong: corolla white or bluish, 14-17 

 mm. wide; lobes linear to linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse: anth.T- 

 linear: ovary glabrous: berries red, 4-6 mm. in diameter. Everglades and 

 low pinelands. F. K. (Bah.) 



5. 8. bahamense L. Shrub with much branched stem, 5-20 dm. tall: leaf- 

 blades oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 4-12 cm. long, thinly rough-pubescent, 



