sities bE: EP ERP RE Sn aes, HE 
NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 253. 
even sometimes clive to — over walls and fences, as ts flowe: 
and — are showy. The berries are said to be poisonous, though “this 
nied by some authors; bai fan it is an unsettled question, and Ps 
red appea. 
the plant should be psaheat as a da angero The twigs are used 
in medicine to increase the secretions of the | rude and skin. 
3. S. tuBero’sum, LZ. Underground shoots producing tubers ; 
interruptedly poendo pinnate, —the lobes ovate, entire ; fruit dactpalan 
rather small, greenish yellow. 
Tuperovus Soranum. Common Potato. Trish Potato. 
Fr. Pomme de terre. pings ie Kartoffel. Span. Batatin. 
Annual ; the base of the ucing tuberous oblong or roundish pedicellate 
rhizomas. 2- ms feet high, g tiie nd succulent ve fleshy, often decumbent, some- 
what pubescent. ves odd-pinnately dissected ,—the segments somewhat petiolulate, 
sometimes ea the alternate pairs ver y small. Flowers in terminal nodding corymbs, 
on a common peduncle 3-5 inches lon, Pg ae articulated, Corolla bluish-white. 
— — yellow, often slightly Ben ering. Berries globose, about half an inch in 
dia: 
Kitchen oa and fields: cultivated. Native of South America. Fl. June-July 
Fr. Septe 
Obs. This most important plant is more or less cultivated, for its escu- 
lent tubers, by every owner or occupant of land. It i am ne of the indis- 
ble il: varieties 
nsable crops for a v¢N ‘ous ubers—purple, 
Ww. have been obtained, by long ‘ 
lants. According ’ cy spepeains ee — into Eng- 
and, from Virginia, by Srr Watrer Ratetc 1586 ; into Ireland in 
1610,— where they have “ long farnished ree three-fifths to four-fifths 
of the entire food of the people” ; and into Scotland in 1728. 
** Antherslong and taper-pointed ; stem and leaves prickly. 
ss posh < oes intr Sone cee = nearly —. leaves 
mewhat sinuate-lo 
aa aabbary, aiken, wading calves aculeate ; fait ovoid or 
oval, dark purple or white, mostl = very large. 
Escutent Soanum. 
Fr. Aubergine rouge. “si indie Nachtschatten. 
Whole plant clothed with a stellated tomentum. _ Root annual. 
slender ar dichotomous, or bearing 2 flowers), ac : 
Wehes brats: spreading. Berries 3~ ee ore in diameler, 5 smooth, ; ee 
Ps phon Sieg Native of In Fl. July - lipasaad Fr. Bevan a 
Obs 
Boog toe culture has baba veral st vara, some 
of which have been describ oe aS 
nearly destitute of prickles. 
Saal metabo ce Stem suffraticnee, “branching leaves tit. 
