ORDER 94. NIGHTSHADES. 283 



d Stamens growing to the summit of the tube. Eeircmberg . NEIREMBER'GIA. 



4 Stamens growing to the bottom of the tube. Matrimony. LYC'IUM. 



e Calyx 5-angled. Capsule spiny or smooth. Thorn Apple. DATU'RA 



e Calyx terete. Stigma capitate. Herbs coarse. Tobacco. NICOTIA'NA, 



e Calyx terete. Stigina 2-lobed. Delicate shrubs, t Fake Tamarisk. FABIA 'si. 



SOL A' NUM. Nightshade. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, limb spreading, tube very short, litnl 

 plaited in the bud, 5-lobed. Anthers erect, slightly united or converging, 

 each opening at top by 2 pores. Berry globular or depressed, 2-celled. 

 Herbs or shrubs unarmed or prickly. Leaves often 2 together, a large 

 and a small one. Flowers generally lateral. May-July. 



Plants not prickly. Anthers short, blunt a 



Plants prickly. Anthers long, linear, and pointed. . . .b 



a Herbs with pinnatifid leaves, shorter than the racemes....! 

 a Herbs with undivided leaves, longer than the racemes.... 2-4 

 a Shrubby plants, erect or climbing. Berries red. . . .5-7 



b Peduncles exceeding the leaves, many-flowered.. ..8, 9 

 b Peduncles shorter than the leaves, few-flowered 10, 11 



I S. tubero'sum. Potato. Segments of the leaves unequal, some very small. Co- 



rolla limb 5-angled. Tubers on the underground branches. . 

 2 S. nig'rnm. Black Nightshade. Smoothish. Leaves ovate, toothed, and wavy. 



Flowers small, white, in lateral umbels. Berries black. 

 8 S. nodiflo'ram. Knot-flowered N. Quite smooth. Leaves ovate, entire. 



Flowers minute, white, the stalk arising from a knot in the stem. S. 

 4 S. pycnan'thnm. Stem hispid. Leaves ovate-acuminate, wavy. Peduncle 2 



or 3-flowered. 8. 



5 S. Dulcama'ra. Sitter-sweet. Stem flexuous, climbing. Leaves ovate, cordate, 



upper ones lobed or gashed. Flowers purple, in lateral cymes, drooping. 

 (Fig. 611.) 



6 S. Pseudo-cap 'sicum. Jerusalem, Cherry. A small, handsome, erect shrub, 2-4f. \ 



7 S. sempervi'rens. Evergreen N. Climbing. Leaves thick, cordate, elliptic, oh- 



tuse, with a blunt cusp, very smooth and shining. Panicles termii.al. T 



8 S. Carolinen'se. Horst Kettle. Leaves angnlar-lobed. Racemes leafless, w. 



9 S Virginia'nnm. Virginia ^V. Leaves pinnatifld. Racemes leafy. Pale. S. 

 10 S. mammo'sum. Apple of Sodom. Woolly and prickly. Leaves roundish-ovate, 



lobed. Fruit inversely pear-shaped. Flowers violet-colored. 



II S esculen'itum. Egg-plant. Leaves ovate, somewhat sinuate, downy. Flowfrs 



6-9-parted. Fruit egg-shaped, from the size of an egg to a water-ii.elon. f 



