1678 



purple or yellow. The species are herbs in 



temperate climates 

 them are shrubby and 

 them are climbers. It 

 few cultivated .species 

 of a great genu-s, ami 

 fore assembled 



)untries many of 



11 trees. Many of 



•■' distribute the 



"'tunical groups 



, I ries are there- 



SOLANUM 



ually by means of thickened or tuberous underground 

 stems, glabrous or pubescent-hirsute: Ivs. unequally 

 pinnate, the 5-9 oblong-ovate Ifts. interposed with much 

 smaller ones: fls. lilac or white, in long-stemmed 

 dichotomous clusters, the corolla prominently lobed: fr. 

 a small globular yellow berry, usually not produced in 

 the highly developed modern varieties. Temperate 

 Andes of Chile and adjacent regions. — See Po/a/o. There 

 is a form with yellow-blotched Ivs. (known as var. va- 

 riegatum) sometimes cult, for ornament. 



Var. boreile, Gray (.S'. Ffti.ll^ri. (irayt. Plant usu- 

 ally smaller, as also llic lulji-rs. wliich :iic iiliunt ' .. in. 



stolons: interposi-,! lit-, ..n. cr- rwn mi- ,\.n n'lur: 

 corolla angled. Mts.. s. ('..I... i.. .Mi-x. -.Vpi.un ntly nnly 



northward < 



M4gUa, Sclil, 



Ifts 



spec 



•bt. 



and very small: Hs. Miialln t li;iii il, — .r .s, i ni,, ,-... h ,„, 

 white, slender-pcili.. I' il. ;:i ,,,,,: 



tubers small (2 in. o] h -- ,,ft 



and watery. Coast n'i;i..n <.i i nm, l; il '., i. ->..iim-- 

 times cult, as a cui-iusitj. Il Iimk lu-t-n iIkhi^'Ih, liy some 

 to be till- original of the Totato, but this i.s now given 

 up. Darwin describes the plant in his "Naturalist's 

 Voyage." As grown by the writer, the plant has given 

 little promise in the production of tubers, for the 

 tubers are small and soft 



3 Jimesu, Torr Low and slender 12-18 in tall un 

 der cultivation the small angular branches glabrous or 



1 t H „1 1 nl u h 11 1 1 in or less 

 - withstanding fiost Mts of Colo , 

 nd Ariz B M 6766 — Isometimes 

 < uriosity The tubers do not appear 



(o» 



oUected) fo, the edible 



simple 



Black Nightshadl Mo 



ih Annual 1-2 ft branch 



•irlyso Ivs simple and en 



iieate ov ite pointed long 



the pedl ill | 



(if a pel — \ I 



Dakotas, 



often calk I -~ 



freely in w 1 



used then t i | 



that the i 1 



In warm u n 



apparent^ witlu 

 though the nlant 1 

 of the SoUnacea" Tl 



man\ md perhaps must I 

 Dun^l in the Prodromus w 1 

 diffused o\er the world evpei lallj 



A Species heaiinq ^indeiqrouiiil t il ei\ h \ piiiiiiili 



(See Baker Journ Linn Soi 21 foi account nt 



the tubeiiftious Solanunis ) 



1 tuberdsum, Lmn Potato Fi„'s 1920 19'!0 2336 



LoH weak -.tenmied much lirani bed perennial with 



tender. Iicili.ireims tops, and perpetuating itself asex- 



m Old r r ( .. 1 I 



streiks in 1 | I 1 



4-6 m l()n„ in I I 1 1 V 



elevations d P "ill (.( Ill i llll-Tlnsili 



tracted some attention in this country about ten 



ago. It appears to have been introduced into the I 



