140 SMILAX-SONCHtJS. 



pinnatifid ; umbels terminal, lar;5e, rayed; involucres many-leaved. 2At 

 The leaves that grow in water are bipinnatifid. Swamps. 

 linea'rt:, leafets linear, lanceolate, acutely and finely serrate; stem tall. 



SMILAX. 20—6. {Asparagi.) [From smileus, to cut ; so called from the roughness of ;ta 

 leaves and .stalk.] 

 rotundifo'lia, (green brier, wg. Ju. %.) stem prickly, sub-terete; leaves un- 

 armed, roundish-ovate, short-acuminate, cordate, 5-7 nerved ; berries sphe- 

 rical. 



SOLANUM. 5 — 1 (SolanecE.^ [From so/or, comfort, because some species give ease by their 

 narcotic quality.] 



dulcama'ra, (bitter-sweet, p-b. Ja. Ij.) stem unarmed, woody, climbing; lower 

 leaves mostly cordate, glabrous, upper ones mostly guitar-hastate ; few flow- 

 ered ; corymbs opposite to the leaves. This is the true bitter-sweet ; though 

 the Celastrus scandens is called so by some. Damp. 



ni'gruvi, (deadly night-shade, w-p-b. J. <v).) stem unarmed, erectish or erect; 

 branches angled, dentate; leaves ovate, repand, glabrous; racemes 2-ranked, 

 nodding. 1-2 f. Ex. 



tubero'sum, (potato, b-w. Ju. T^.) stem wing-angled, unarmed ; leaves inter- 

 ruptedly pinnate ; leafets entire ; flowers sub-corymbed ; roots knobbed, tu- 

 berous. Cultivated. 



lycoper"sicuvi, (love-apple, tomato, y. S. ©.) stem unarmed ; leaves pinnati- 

 fid, gashed; racemes 2-parted, leafless; fruit glabrous, torulose. Ex. 



pseudo-capsi'cuvi, (Jerusalem cherry, h.) stem woody; leaves lanceolate, re- 

 pand ; umbels sessile. Ex. 

 SOLEA. 5—1. (Cisti.^ 



con"color, (Ap. w-y. %..) stem simple, erect ; leaves wedge-form, lanceolate, 

 sessile, irregularly toothed above ; peduncles short. 2-3-flowered ; calyx 

 nearly as long as the petals ; spur none. 2-4 f. Rocks. Green violet. 



SOLIDAGO. 17—2. (CorymbifercB.) [From soK^Jo, to make firm, from its supposed virtue in 

 healing vsrounds.] 



A. Flowers one-sided; leaves luith three covihined nerves. 

 canaden'sis, (Canadian golden-rod, y. Ju. Tj..) stem downy ; leaves lanceolate, 

 serrate, rough ; racemes panicled, recurved; rays hardly longer than the 

 disk ; stem angular ; leaves sessile, three inches long, sometimes nearly 

 entire. 2-5 f. 

 gigan"tea, (giant golden-rod, y. Au. %.) stem erect, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, 

 smooth, serrate, rough-edged, obscurely 3-nerved ; racemes panicled; pe- 

 duncles rough-haired ; rays short. 4-7 f 

 laterijlo'ra, (side-flowered golden-rod, y. Au. %.) stem erect, a little hairy; 

 leaves lanceolate, slightly 3-nerved, glabrous, rough-edged ; lower ones siib- 

 serrate; racemes panicled, a little recurved, sub-secund ; flowers large, the 

 rays being much longer than the calyx ; stem striated, often purplish, pin- 

 natifid, with numerous lateral flowering branches. 2-3 f 

 B. Racemes nr flowers one-sided; leaves veiny. 

 aUitis"sima, (variable golden-rod, y. Au. %.) stem erect, rough-haired ; leave? 

 lanceolate; lower ones deeply serrate, scabrous, rugose. The panicled ra- 

 cemes are very numerous, and spread every way, so as to bring the one- 

 sided flowers upwards ; rays half as long as the calyx ; the serratures of the 

 leaves are equal and unequal ; it is hairy or villose ; and sometimes the ra- 

 cemes diverge but little. 3-6 f. 

 paf'ula, (.spread golden-rod, y. S. %..) stem erect, glabrous; leaves oval, ser- 

 rate, glabrous ; radical ones oblong-spatulate ; racemes panicled, spread- 

 ing; peduncles pubescent. Stem wand-like, angular, and striate; stem- 

 leaves sessile, about an inch long, pointed ; the radical ones resemble those 

 of the ox-eyed daisy; racemes about an inch long ; flowers rather large. 2 f. 

 C. Racemes erect, 

 bi-color, (white golden-rod, w. Au. %.) stem hairy ; leaves oval, hairy ; lower 

 ones serrate ; those on the flower branches entire, numerous, and small ; 

 scale and calyx obtuse ; racemes are short and compact ; rays white, some- 

 what numerous and shortish ; disk florets rather numerous. 2-4 f. 

 FONCHUS. 17—1. (Cori/mbifercB.) 

 olera'cevs, (sovz-thistle, y. Ju. ©•) leaves lance-oblong, clasping, slightly tooth- 



