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 8. Solanum Dulcamara L. 



POTATO FAMILY. 



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Nightshade. Blue Bindweed. Fellonwort. 

 Bittersweet. (Fig. 3218.) 



Solanum Dulcamara L> Sp. PI. 185. 1753. 



Perennial, pubescent with simple hairs or gla- 

 brate, stem climbing or straggling, somewhat 

 woody below, branched, 2-8 long. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate or hastate in outline, 2 / -4 / long, 

 \'-7.y 2 ' wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 usually slightly cordate at the base, some of 

 them entire, some with a lobe on one side near 

 the base, some deeply 3-lobed or 3-divided, with 

 the terminal segment much the largest; cymes 

 compound, lateral; pedicels slender, articulated 

 at the base, spreading or drooping; flowers blue, 

 purple, or white, 5 // -7 // broad; calyx-lobes short, 

 oblong, obtuse, persistent at the base of the 

 berry; corolla deeply 5-cleft, its lobes triangular- 

 lanceolate, acuminate; berry oval or globose, red. 



In waste places or in moist thickets, sometimes 

 appearing as if indigenous, New Brunswick to Min- 

 nesota, south to New Jersey, Pennsylvania and 

 Kansas. May- Sept. Old names are Woody Night- 

 shade, Poison-flower, Poison- or Snake-berry. Nat- 

 uralized from Europe. Native also of Asia. 



Solanum triquetrum Cav., a Texan and Mexican nearly glabrous herb, scarcely climbing, with 

 somewhat ridged stems, 3-lobed deltoid-cordate or hastate leaves, lateral few-flowered cymes and 

 globose red berries, is reported from Kansas. 



7. LYCOPERSICON Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 7. 1759. 



Annual, or rarely perennial, coarse branching or feebly climbing herbs, with 1-2-pinnately 

 divided leaves, and lateral irregular raceme-like cymes of small yellowish flowers opposite 

 the leaves. Calyx 5-parted, or rarely 6-parted, the segments linear or lanceolate. Corolla 

 rotate, the tube very short, the limb 5-cleft or rarely 6-cleft, plicate. Stamens 5 (rarely 6), 

 inserted on the throat of the corolla; filaments very short; anthers elongated, connate or 

 connivent, introrsely longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-3-celled; style simple; stigma small, 

 capitate. Berry in the wild plants globose or pyriform, much modified in cultivation, the calyx 

 persistent at its base. [Greek, wolf-peach. ] 

 About 4 species, natives of South America- 



i. Lycopersicon Lycopersicon 



(L. ) Karst. Tomato. Love Apple. 



Cherry Tomato. (Fig. 3219.) 



Solatium Lycopersicum 1,. Sp. PI. 185. 1753. 

 L. esculentum Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8. 1768. 

 Lycopersicum Lycopersicum Karst. Deutsch. 



Fl. 966. 1880-83. 



Viscid-pubescent, much branched, i- 

 3 high, the branches spreading. Leaves 

 petioled, pinnately divided, 6 / -i8 / long, 

 the segments stalked, the larger 7-9, ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute, dentate, 

 lobed or again divided, 2 / -4 / long, with 

 several or numerous smaller, sometimes 

 very small ones interspersed; clusters sev- 

 eral-flowered; peduncles i / -3 / long; flow- 

 ers 5 // -8 // broad; calyx-segments about 

 equalling the corolla; berry the well- 

 known tomato or love-apple. 



Escaped from cultivation and occasionally 

 spontaneous from southern New York and 

 Pennsylvania southward. June-Sept. 



8. LYCIUM L. Sp. PI. 191. 1753. 



Shrubs, or woody vines, often spin}-, with small alternate entire leaves, commonly with 

 smaller ones fascicled in their axils, and white greenish or purple, axillary or terminal, soli- 



