Family SOLANACEA# 113 
3. Lithospermum canescens (Michx.) Lehm. Hoary Puccoon. 
Low prairies in the eastern part of the state. Emerson; Lincoln; 
Plainview; Walton; Weeping Water. 
4, Lithospermum linearifolium Goldie. 
Common on plains and low prairies all over the state. Anselmo; 
Box Butte county; Fairbury; Lincoln; Perkins county; Pine Ridge; 
Thedford. 
9. Onosmodium. 774. 
Plants 4-6 dm. tall; leaves 4-8 cm. long, less than 1.8 cm. wide; 
nutlets not constricted at the base. 1. O. occidentale. 
Plants 10-12 dm. tall; leaves 8-10 cm. long, over 1.8 cm. wide; nut- 
lets with a neck or constriction at the base. 2. O. hispidissimum. 
1. Onosmodium occidentale Mackenzie. Western False Gromwell. 
Common on prairies over most of the state. Beatrice; Broken Bow; 
Emerson; Kearney county; Lincoln; Sheridan county; Thedford. 
2. Onosmodium hispidissimum Mackenzie. 
In the eastern part of the state. Collected by Hayden near old 
Council Bluffs. 
10. Echium. 776. 
1. Echium vulgare L. Blueweed. 
Introduced but not common. Bazile Mills; Lancaster county; Ne- 
hawka; Plainview. 
5. SOLANACEZ. 
Potato Family. 
Fruit a berry. 
Calyx inclosing the fruit. 
Calyx inflated and bladder-like in fruit; plant not prickly. 
1. Physalis. ~ 
Calyx not inflated, closely investing the fruit. 2. Solanum. 
Calyx not inclosing the fruit. 
Herbs. 2. Solanum. 
Shrubs. 3. Lycium. 
Fruit a large prickly capsule. 4. Datura. 
1. Physalis. 809. 
Ground-cherries. 
Leaves tapering to the narrow base. 
Base of fruiting calyx sunken; berry red or purple; corolla with 
purple dots or purple throat. 
Leaves 6-10 cm. long; fruiting calyx 10-angled, finally often 
filled or burst by the large berry. 1. P. subglabrata. 
Leaves 3-6 em. long; fruiting calyx 5-angled. 5. P. virginiana. 
Base of fruiting calyx not sunken; berry yellow; corolla with a 
brown center; leaves generally entire. 
Glabrous; leaves narrowly lanceolate. 2. P. longifolia. 
Sparingly hirsute; leaves broader. 4. P. lanceolata. 
Leaves rounded or cordate at the base. 
Glabrous or nearly so; fruiting calyx large, deeply sunken at the 
base. 3. P. macrophysa. 
Densely pubescent, more or less viscid. 
