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SOLANUM 



are white, purple or yellow. The species are herbs in 

 temperate climates, but in warm countries many of 

 them are shrubby and some are small trees. Many of 

 them are climbers. It is impracticable to distribute the 

 few cultivated species into the various botanical groups 

 of a great genus, and the following species are there- 

 fore assembled on a purely horticultural plan. 



ually by means of thickened or tuberous underground 

 stems, glabrous or pubescent-hirsute: Ivs. unequally 

 pmnate, 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 

 Andesof 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. boreaie, Gray (S. Flndhrl, Gray). Plant usu- 

 allj smaller as ilso the tubers, which are about K in. 

 in diam and send off long, creeping subterranean 

 stolons mterposul Itt- one or two or even none- 

 corolla iii^l 1 "Mts s (_olo to Mex -Apparently only 

 anoithw il \t i in t the species 



2 Magha s lil lit I) \R-niN Potato More slender 

 and ert t tli m s t il k \um and nearly or quite gla- 

 brous Itts usuUly smaller the interposed ones few 

 and very small tls smaller than those of S hiherosum, 

 white, slender pediceled m loose, long forked cymes' 

 tubers small (2 in or less long), globose or oblong, soft 

 and watery Coast region of Chile B M 67>() -Some- 

 tinies cult as a curiosity It has been thought by some 

 to be the original of the Potato, but this is 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 J&mesu, Torr Low and slender, 12-18 in tall un- 

 der cultivation, the small angular branches gHbrous or 



jommg so hs oblong in geneiil outline, the 

 rachis narrow winged, the Ifts 5-<) with no in- 



terposed small ones 

 long m shape f 

 deeply clett and t 

 nent tubers few 

 in diametei with 

 \ Mex ind \ii 

 . ult as a cunosil 

 to be eaten 



imall 

 null white the corolla 



' 1 1 I 1 I ^t iiid promi- 

 ' 1 I 1 I 1 m or less 



I Alts of Colo., 



I Mill- Sometimes 

 Iht tubers do not appear 



aviculare, 13. 

 azurettm, 21. 

 boreale, 1. 

 Capsicastmm, 9. 

 coccineum, l.Z 

 depressum, 6. 

 esculentum, 6. 

 Fmdleri, 1. 

 erandlfloruni. 20. 

 Guaiemalejise, 5. 

 Hendersoni. 10. 

 Indicum, 14. 

 insanum, 6. 

 integrifolium, 7. 

 Jamesii. 3. 

 jasminoides, 20. 



Magha 2 

 magmficutn 22 

 mirgmatum 17. 

 Melougena 6 



nanum 8 

 nigrum 4 

 ovigerum 6 

 Pseudo Capsicum, 



8. 

 pyraeanthum, 16. 

 Rantonnetii. 11. 

 Rantonnei, 11. 



m muricatu 



lobustum IS 

 Se-jforthiinuni 2 

 serpeiitinum b 

 Texanum. 7. 

 Torreyi, 15. 

 tuberosum, 1, 

 umbeltatum, 12. 

 umbelliferum, 12. 

 variegatum, 1, 9, 2 

 venustum, 21. 

 Warscewiezii, 19. 



19. 



A. Species bearing undergroimd tubers: Ivs. pinnate. 



(See Baker, Journ. Linn. Soo. 21, for account of 



the tuberiferous Solauums. ) 



1. tuberdstun, Linn. Potato. Figs. 1929, 1930; 2336. 



Low. weak-stemmed, much-branched perennial with 



tender, herbaceous tops, and perpetuating itself asex- 



AA Species gtoun (or collected) fn, the edible 

 fiuiti, lis bimple 

 4 nigrum, Linn Black Nightshade. Mo- 

 RELLE ot the Fiench Annual, 1-2 ft , branch- 

 inj glabious or nearly so Ivs simple ind en- 

 tii ^ ite to cuneate o^ate pointed, long- 



I tl white small, in few fld tlusters, 

 I li I mg fr globulai bl u'k, size 

 I - \ \\i Ifsprt id weed\ pi int In the 

 I ' ' 1 1 Img to Hansen, the plant is 



< tti n ( illed stubbleberry as it volunteers 

 treely in wheat stubble, and the fruit is much 

 used there for pies and preserves Hansen tinds 

 that the plants withstand considerable frost. 

 In warm countries, according to Vilnioriii, the 

 leaves are sometimes eaten as spinach is, "and 

 "' apparently without any injurious result, al- 



though the plant belongs to the dangerous fam- 

 ily of the Solanaceae." The writer has grown the plant 

 from French seeds, but he does not know that it is in 

 the American trade. The species is exceedingly vari- 

 able Gray thinks that the species should include 

 "many and perhaps most of 50 and more species of 

 Dunal in the Prodromus, weeds or weedy plants, widely 

 diffused over the world, especially in the warmer por- 

 tions." 



5. muric4tum. Ait. (S. GuatemaUnse, Kort.). Pepino. 

 Melon Pear. Melon Shrub. Pig. 2337. Erect bushy 

 herb or subshrub, not spiny, glabrous or nearly so: Ivs. 

 long and narrow, mostly oblong-lanceolate, tapering to 

 the petiole and also to the nearly or quite obtuse point, 

 the margin wholly entire or somewhat undulate: fls. 

 rather small, bright blue, deeply 5-Iobed, inclined or 

 nodding in a long-stalked forking cluster: fr. long- 

 ovoid or egg-shaped, long-stalked, yellow overlaid with 

 sti'fii,-': riri.1 «plrv«hes of violet-purple, in cult, specimens 



^-'' '" ' "■'' srcdlrss. Tnip. Anier., at temperate 



'i 1. :.:17::. li.r. in. ;!:309._This plant at- 



" 1' iiti..iL in tliis country about ten years 



a^M- li :i|:[i. ai , to liaye been introduced into the United 



