A Relative of the Sunberry 



These are blossoms of a South American plant, the So- 

 lanum Jasminoides, sometimes called the potato plant. The 

 blossoms of this plant closely resemble those of the sunberrv. al- 

 though the plants are very far fromidentical in other regards. 

 The relationship between the two is not very close, but the 

 similarity of blossom gives another illustration of 

 the way in which a character mag be trans- 

 mitted and modi/led into different 

 strains of plants from a dif- 

 ferent ancestor. 



