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WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 



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oblong, acute, sinuate-angled and often subhastate, prickly on both sides ; 

 racemes simple, loose ; fruit globose, small, orange yellow. 

 CAROLINIAN SOLANUM. Horse-nettle. 



Root perennial. Stem 1 to near 2 feet high, annual but firm and almost afcrubby, hollow, 

 branching, armed with sharp spreading prickles. Leaves 4-6 inches long, aculeate on the 

 midrib and larger nerves on both sides, clothed with a hirsute stellate pubescence ; 

 petioles half an inch to an inch and a half long. Racemes lateral, opposite to and often 



FIG. 164. The Horse-nettle (Solannm Carolinense). 



