NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 265" 
— than the leaves. Calyx 5-parted, aculeate. Corolla bluish- white, Berries one-fourth 
e-third of an inch in diameter. 
a rasture es and cultivated grounds—especially in the Southern States. Fl. July. Fr. 
tober. 
Obs. This i nd 
that it is almost hipeeeible to fare rid of it, when once fully fateodueail 
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to se 
will do ten. ther phi » enable themselves to know it when they mee’ 
it id cate it, promptly and. effectually, wheeme 
they find ry on on thei acts ises. 
3. CAP’SICUM, Tournef. Capsicum. 
(Greek, kapto, to bite ; from its hot or biting quality.) 
Calyx angular, 5- ne t, persistent. Corolla aS with a very 
short tube,—the limb plicate, 5—6-lobed. Stamens 5-6, exserted ; 
anthers shorter than the filaments, heart-shaped, longitudinally dehiscent. 
Berry nearly dry, inflated, polymorphous, incompletely 2 -3-celled. 
Seeds ery wes compressed, reniform 
be am Ste m herbaceous leaves ovate, acuminate, entire, 
eibrow: aac siltbir yar 
I Red ee Cnydaus Pepper. 
Fr. "Poivre d’Inde. Germ. Spanischer Pfeffer. Span. El Pimentero, 
and El Chili. 
— Stem 1-2 feet high, angular, branching above. 4 inches Bae 
deep green ; petioles 1-3 inches 3 long, semi -terete, be wri channeled gtivbes 
whe’ with *ovate- Pip von aradind lobes. Anthers white » With om of bags tone 
hollow, terete and slender, ovoid-oblong, or depressed- -globose, tier, wh or torose, 
seaaos and le cultivated. Native of South America. Fl. ar 19 Fr, Oct. 
Obs. sine for its fruit, nd much 
used as —— t. Several varieties cs (perhaps detinet spon with 
ks Sait of vor as forms—are to be met lps er one | 
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