332 SS. Dulcamara.' 26. SOLANE^. PL ex. cor. 



|3. hirsuta. Leaves rough with hairs. 



Solanutn lignogum, seu dulcamara marina, Raii Syn. 265, 2. 



Sea-coastSj Ray, Hudson. 



VII. 89. SOLANUM. Pliny. Nightshade. 



Calyx 5-parted ; corolla rotate, 5-lobes ; lobes naked at 

 bottom ; anthers 5, oblong, opening at their tip by 2 pores; 

 stigma blunt; Isrry smooth, fleshy. 2-celled, many-seeded; 

 seeds smooth; corculum spiral. — Stem shrubby or herba- 

 ceous ; leaves simple, sometimes pinnate with an odd one, 

 in many doubly ; peduncles solitary or many; one or many- 

 flowered ; extra-axillary, or scattered or terminal. 



a. Stem herbaceous, not armed; leaves sinuate or lohed ; 

 racemes forked, rather imihelled or panicled, drooping, extra- 



foliaceous ; peduncles short ; fiowers small, white, or light 

 violet ; lerry small, globular. Maurella. 



1 . Solanum nigrum. Black nightshade. 

 Stem angular ; leaves ovate, toothed, angular, bald ; 



berries black. 



Solanum vulgare, Raii Syn. 265, 4 ; Park. 346. 

 Solanum hortense, Ger. em. 339, 1. 

 Solanum nigrum, Lin. S. P. 266. 

 Solanum humile, Salisb. Prod. 134. 

 Garden nightshade. Morell. Petty morell. 



Dunghills and gardens; annual; June to September. 



Hoot much branched; stem spreading; leaves petioled; 

 fiowers smell like musk. — Leaves applied externally abate 

 inflammation ; internally, 1 or 2 grs. infused in boil- 

 ing water, and taken at bedtime, occasions a copious per- 

 spiration, are diuretic, and generally purge the next day. 



2. Solanum villosum. Villous nightshade. 

 Stem round, villous at top ; leaves ovate, angulate, rather 



villous ; berries yellow. 



Solanum nigrum /3, Huds. FL Angl. 93. 

 Solanum villosum, De Cand. Fl. Fr. 



Dunghills and cultivated grounds ; annual; July. 



b. Leaves pinnately cut ivilh an odd lobe ; lobes not cut ; 



racemes corymbose, terminal. 



?>. Solanum tuberosum. Tuberous nightshade. 



Root bearing tubers ; stem herbaceous, not armed ; seg- 

 ments of the leaves unequal, alternate; pedicells jointed; 

 corolla 5-ani2:uhir. 



