Order 94.— NIGHTSHADES. 269 



d Stamens growing to the summit of the tube. 2\eircinherg. Neihembku'gia. 



d Stamens growing to the bottom of the tube. Matrimony. I.yc'ium. 



e Calvx 5-angled. Capsule spiny or smooth. Thorn Apple. Datu''ra. 



e Calyx terete. Stigma capitate. Herbs coarse. Tobacco. Kicotia'na. 



e Calyx terete. Stigma 2-Iobed. Delicate shrubs, f False Tamaruk. Fabia'na. 



SOLA'NUM. Nightshade. 



Calyx 5-parte(l. Corolla rotate, limb spreading, tube very short, limb 

 plaited in the bud, 5-lobed. Anthers erect, slightly united or converging, 

 each opening at top by 2 pores. Berry globular or depressed, 2-celled. 

 — Herbs or shrubs unarmed or prickly. Leaves often 2 together, a large 

 and a small one. Flowers generally lateral. May-July. 



% Plants not prickly. Anthers short, blunt. . . .a 



§ Plants prickly. Anthers long, linear, and pointed,. . .b 



a Herbs with pinnatifid leaves, shorter than the racemes. . . .1 



a Herbs with undivided leaves, longer than the racemes 2-4 



a Shrubby plants, erect or climbing. Berries red 5-7 



b Peduncles exceeding the loaves, many-flowered 8, 9 



b Peduncles shorter than the leaves, few-liowered 10, 11 



I S. tubero'sum. Potato. Segments of the leaves unequal, some very small. Co- 



rolla limb 5-angled. Tubers on the underground branches. 



2 S. nig 'rum. Black Xigldshade. Smootliish. Leaves ovate, toothed, and wavy. 



Flowers small, white, in lateral umbels. Berries black. 



3 S. nodiflo''rum. Knot-jiowereJ, N. Quite smooth. Leaves ovate, entire. 



Flowers minute, white, the stalk arising from a knot in the stem. S. 



4 S. pycnan'thum. Stem hispid. Leaves ovate-acuminate, wavy. Peduncle 2 



or 3-flowered. S. 



5 S. Dulcama'ra. Bitter-siceet. Stem fiexuous, climbing. Loaves ovate, cordate, 



¥pper ones lobed or gashed. Flowers purple, in lateral cymes, drooping. 

 (Fig. 611.) 



6 S, Pseudo-cap 'sicum. Jerusalem Cherry. A small, handsome, erect shrub, 2-4f. t 



7 S. sempervi'rens. Evergreen N. Climbing. Leaves thick, cordate, elliptic, ob- 



tuse, with a blunt cusp, very smooth and shining. Panicles terminal, f 



8 S. Carolinen'se. Horsi Settle. Leaves angular-lobed. Kacemes leafless, w. 



9 S. Virginia 'num. Virginia N. Leaves pinnatifid. Kacemes leafy. Pale. S. 

 10 S. mammo'sum. Apple of Sodom. "Woolly and prickly. Leaves roundish-ovate, 



lobed. Fruit inversely pear-shaped. Flowers violet-colored. 



II S escnlen'tum. Egg-plant. Leaves ovate, somewhat sinuate, downy. Flowers 



6-9-parted. Fruit egg-shaped, from the size of an egg to a water-melon, f 



