NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 713 



ALABAMA: Over the State ; waste places. Flowers white, June, to October ; fruit 

 ripe August to October. Abundant. Annual. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in Orbis totius cultis." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanura gracile Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 1 : 54. 1852. SLENDER NIGHTSHADE. 



Erroneously referred to S. hirsulum by Mohr in Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 26. 1897. 



Annual, 1 to 2 feet high, erect or decumbent at the base, stem and branches terete, 

 somewhat cinereous by the close pubescence; leaves oblong-ovate, attenuated, cuneate 

 at the base, acutish, pubescent and ciliate, f to 1| inches long, f to | inch wide, short- 

 petioled; peduncles extra-axillary, about inch long, spreading-reflexed in fruit; 

 pedicels umbellate or subumbellate, shorter than the peduncles ; flowers small ; calyx 

 lobes short, rather obtuse; filaments smooth; style bearded at the base; fruit black, 

 of a bronzy hue, i inch in diameter. 



SOUTHERN BRAZIL, ARGENTINA. 



ALABAMA: A common ballast weed spreading over low waste places. Mobile 

 County, abundant in thickets bordering the swamps along the Mobile River. Pro- 

 ducing its fruit to perfection throughout the summer and fall. 



Type locality : " In Brasiliae provincia Rio de Janeiro * circa Buenos 



Ayres * * * in Montevideo * * * in Chiliad Rancagua." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanum rubrum Mill. Diet. ed. 8, no. 4. 1768. RED NIGHTSHADE. 



Solanum nodiflorum var. rubruin Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 437. 1864. 



The form with black berries. 



Annual from a long fibrous root. Stem smoothish, muricately denticulate along 

 the angles, like the branchlets; leaves repand-denticulate or subentire, peduncles 

 erect-spreading, about inch long ; pedicels somewhat shorter, strongly reflexed in 

 fruit, flowers smaller than in the last with the short calyx lobes oval, obtuse. 



TROPICAL AMERICA. 



Louisianian area. Western Florida. 



ALABAMA : Mobile County, like the last, a common and persistent ballast weed 

 slowly spreading to waysides along the river front. June to October. 



Type locality: "The seeds * * * came from the West Indies." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanum pseudocapsicum L.Sp. PI. 1:184. 1753. JERUSALEM CHERRY. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 228. 



MADEIRA, AZORES. 



Louisianian area. Naturalized in Florida and South Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. This erect low shrub appears to be well estab- 

 lished in thickets and hedge rows. Tallapoosa County, near Dadeville. Lee County, 

 Auburn (Earle <)' Underwood). Flowers in June. Fruit globose, scarlet. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Madera." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. Icon. Rar. t. 41. 1781-1793. SPINY NIGHTSHADE. 



Solanum mammosum Ell. Sk. 1 :281. 1817. Not L. ( ?) 



Chap. Fl. 349. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 230. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 298. 

 Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 442. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL, CEYLON. 



Louisianian area. Texas along the coast to Florida and North Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt to Littoral belt. Dry sandy pastures. Baldwin 

 County, shores of Fish River Bay, October 4, in fruit; berries f inch in diameter, 

 bright flame-scarlet. Infrequent. Suffrutescent. Springhill, waste ground, near 

 the hotel. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solanum sisymbrifolium Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 2 : 2,5. 1793. 



Solanum balbisii Dunal, Hist. Solan. 232, t. 3. 1813. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 641 ; ed. 3, 322. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2. pt. 1 : 230. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 298. 



PERU, SOUTHERN BRAZIL, BUENOS AYRES. 



Louisianian area. Naturalized from Georgia and Florida to Texas. 



ALABAMA : Central Prairie belt to Coast plain. Adventive from South America. 

 Waste places, near dwellings. Montgomery, roadsides in the suburbs. Mobile 

 County, waste places along the banks of the river. Flowers pale blue, May to July; 



