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sea. It is extremely variaWe in the form and size of the leaves, as well as in the degree of 

 puhescence.^^ Being a hardy^ suffruticose species, and hearing a profusion of handsome blue 

 flowers throughout the season^ it deserves a place in our gardens. 



SoLANUM LiNDHEiMEKiANUM, Scheele 171 Linucea^ 21.^. 766. S. triquetrum, B. Dunal^ L c. p, 154. 

 Sandy and shady places, central and western Texas, and along the Rio Grande, from the 

 mouth of the Pecos, downward ; flowering throughout the season. (No. 1591 and No. 536, the 

 latter a narrow-leaved form, Wright; No. 481, Lindheimer ; No. 154 and lilQ ^ Berlandier,) 

 Variable in the size and breadth of the leaves, as well as in the length of the auricles. This 



is, perhaps, too near S. triquetrum. Dr. Engelmann formerly distributed the plant under the 

 manuscript name of S. dulcamaroides, but he published no description of it. 



SoLANUM EL^AGXiroLiUM, Cav. Ic. t. 243; Bunalj L c. p. 290. S. flav;dum, Torr. in Ann. Lye, 

 N. Torky 2, p. 227. S. Texense, Engelm. & Gray^ PL Lindli. 1, p. 19. S. Eoemerianum, 

 Scheele in Linnoea. 21, p. 767. S. Hindsianum, Benth. Bof. Sidph. p. 39? Texas and New 

 Mexico, esx)ecially along the Eio Granda and westward to California. (No. 1590, Wright. 

 No. 659, 665 and 2069, BerlandierJ) S. Texense differs only in being destitute of prickles ; 

 but intermediate forms are common. Dr* Gregg, who found this plant in all the Mexican 



States that he visited, remarks, in his notes, that the natives, who call the plant Trompillo^ use 

 the fruit for curdling milk, and likewise as a sudorific and sternutatory. 



SoLANCM ROSTRATUM, Dundl^ JSolan. p. 234, <& in DC. Prodr. I. c. S. heterandrum, Pursh^ FL 

 2yp. 731, t. 7. S. Bejariense, Moricand; Dunal^ L c. Androcera lobata, Nutt. Gen. 1, p. 129. 

 Nycterium lobatum. Sweet. N. luteum, Bonn; Torr. Z. c. Common in Texas and New Mexico, 

 extending westward through the neighboring Mexican States. Perhaps not distinct from S. 



cornutum. 



Sola:kum citrullteolium, A. Braun in Ind, Sem. H. Frih. 1849^ fide A. DC, Prodr. 13, pars 1, 

 2). 682. S. heterodoxum, Jacq. Eel. PI. Par. 2, t. 103. Plains near Puerto de Paysano and 

 near the Limpio ; July — September ; Bigelow. Flowers large, violet, an inch in diameter. The 

 last three species belong to a remarkable group (Cryptocarpum, Dunaly) which Nuttall regarded 

 as a proper genus, (Androcera.) It is chiefly distinguished by the fruit being completely 

 inclosed in enlarged tube of the calyx. 



Solanum heterodoxum, Du7ialy I. c. p. 331? On the Kio Grande, below Presido del Norte j 

 Auf^ust ; Parrj. Corallitas, Chihuahua ; Thiirher. Differs from the last in the excessively 

 hispid stem and branches, and in the much smaller flowers. 



SoLANXjM VERBAsciEOLiUM, Linn. Sp. p. 263; Dunalj I. c. p. 114. Near Monterey, Neuvo 

 Leon * Dr Edwards^ Dr. Gregg. Between Victoria and Tamaulipas ; Berlandier^ No. 806. A 

 tall suffruticose species ; common in the warmer parts of America and Asia. Dr. G-regg says 

 that the Mexicans call it Yerba de San Pedro^ and that they use the plant made into a poultice 



as an application to ulcers and boils. 



LLUM, DunaL I. c. v. 421. "Western Mexico 



common, 

 cific name 



Mexicans 



The spe- 



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from 



uteiflorum, Dunalj I. 

 March — October. (N 



Wright,) Dr. James 



single fructiferous calyx. We have, however, from the valley of the Rio Grande, numerous 

 specimens of what is clearly the same species in a mature state, and which is the same as No. 



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