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4. S. Blodgettii, n. sp. Stem shrubby? smooth, the branches, like the up- 

 per surface of the leaves, roughened with a close stellate (greenish) pubescence ; 

 leaves oblong, obtuse, entire, narrowed into a short petiole, hoary-tomentose 

 beneath, like the rather short-peduncled many-flowered forking cymes ; calyx 

 small, obconical, with short rounded teeth ; corolla purple ? deeply parted, 3-4 

 times as long as the calyx, with lanceolate acute lobes ; anthers nearly sessile, 

 linear, narrowed at the apex, shorter than the style. South Florida. Leaves 

 3' - 4' long. Flowers ' in diameter. 



* * Prickly: flowers racemed: corolla mostly angularly lobed. j 



5. S. Carolinense, L. Hirsute with stellate hairs ; stems erect ; leaves 

 ovate-oblong, angularly lobed or toothed, abruptly contracted into a short pet- 

 iole ; the veins and petiole, like the stem, armed with straight yellow prickles ; 

 racemes simple, slender, 3 - several-flowered ; calyx-lobes acuminate. Var. FLO- 

 BIDANA (S. Floridana, Dunal) is less hairy; stems ascending from a creeping 

 base ; leaves narrower, sinuate-lobed or toothed, with more numerous and 

 stronger prickles. Dry waste places, Florida to North Carolina. June - Sept. 

 If. Stem 1 - 1| high. Leaves 3' - 5' long. Corolla 9" - 12" wide, blue or 

 white. 



6. S. aculeatissimum, Jacq. Plant beset throughout with bristly hairs 

 and stout prickles ; stem diffusely branched ; leaves petioled, ovate or oval, 

 membranaceous, acute, rounded or cordate at the base, acutely lobed or toothed ; 

 racemes lateral, slender, 2 - 5-flowered, shorter than the petioles ; corolla-lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, white ; anthers acuminate ; berry globose, yellow. Waste 

 places, Florida to North Carolina. Probably introduced from Mexico. June - 

 Sept. CD Stem 1 - 2 high. Leaves 3' - 6' long. Corolla 6" - 9" wide, the 

 lobes recurved. i 



7. S. mammosum, L. Pubescent with stellate hairs, and the stem, pet- 

 ioles, and nerves of the leaves armed with stout flattened prickles ; stem stout, 

 erect; leaves large, ovate, sinuate-lobed, slightly cordate; racemes cymose, 

 long-peduncled, many-flowered; corolla large, purple, with ovate spreading 

 lobes ; berry conical-ovate. Koad-sides, and waste ground, Florida and 

 Georgia. July -Sept. Stem 2 -3 high. Leaves 6' -9' long. Co- 

 rolla 1^' wide. Anthers narrowed upward, on slender filaments. Calyx 

 unarmed. 



8. S. hiTSUtum, Nutt, not of Dunal. Dwarf, hirsute; leaves broadly 

 obovate, very obtuse, nearly entire, narrowed at the base, prickly on the midrib ; 

 racemes 3-flowered ; peduncles filiform. Milledgeville, Georgia. Roots pro- 

 fusely creeping. Stem a span high, beset with yellowish hairs. Calyx very 

 rough. Flowers purple 1 ( * ) 



S. PSEUDO-CAPSICUM, L., the JERUSALEM CHERRY, is sometimes sponta- 

 neous near dwellings. 



S. TUBEROSUM, L., is the IRISH POTATO, as it is here called ; S. MELONGE- 

 NA, L., the EGG-PLANT ; and S. LYCOPERSICUM, L. (Lycopersicum esculentum, 

 Mill.) the TOMATO. 



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