254 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
oblong, acute, sinuate-angled and often subhastate, prickly on both sides ; 
racemes simple, loose ; fruit globose, small, orange yellow. 
Caronintan Sonanum. Horse-nettle. 
Root perennial. Stem 1 to near 2 feet high, annual but firm and almost shrubby, hollow, 
ing, armed with ) spreading prickles. Leaves 4-6 inches ,aculeate on the: 
midrib and larger nerves on both sides, clothed with a hirsute stellate pubescence 5 
petioles half an inch to an inch anda half long. Racemes lateral, opposite to and often 
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Fig, 164. The Hi ettle (Sol Carolinense). qoge 
