CATALOGUE. 207 



Cuscuta (Clistogrammica) decora, Choisy, Engelm. — In the Gila 

 Valley on a low, spiny, rhamaceous shrub. Eothrock (326), 1874. A 

 large form, the same as the one from California. ' 



SOLANACE^. 



Solanum nigrum, L., var. Douglasii, Gray (S. Douglasii, Dunal, in 

 DC. Prod, xiii, p. 48). — Glabrous or even tomentose-puberulent leaves 

 (sometimes in California specimens thickish, on short petioles) deeply and 

 irregularly crenate; flowers 6" in diameter. — Camp Grant, Ariz. (388). 



Var. Dillenii, Gray (or near it, fide Professor Gray). (8. Dillenii, 

 Dunal, DC. Prod, xiii, p. 47.) — Slightly puberulent; leaves entire or nearly 

 so, acute, attenuate into a petiole, 2-3 J' long and one-third as wide ; flowers 

 umbellate, erect; short filaments more or less -hairy; fruit reflexed; style 

 hairy, especially at base, and geniculate toward the capitate stigma; flowers 

 4" in diameter. — Camp Lowell, Ariz. (707). Very slender and straggling 

 herb. Probably the same as S. nodiflorum of the Mex. Bound. Survey. 



Solanum Jamesii, Torr. (in Ann. Lye. K Y. 2, p. 227, and Gray in Sill. 

 Jour. n. ser. 22, p. 284). — Glabrous, or with a few longish hairs; leaves oval; 

 leaflets 7-11, decreasing and becoming distant toward the base, slightly de- 

 current; calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, half as long as the corolla; filaments 

 smooth; style smooth, moderately thickened upwardly; stigma slightly two - 

 lobed and capitate; inner valve of the anthers so conspicuously shorter 

 than the outer as to make the anthers (seen from the extremity) almost 

 bilabiate ; racemes extra-axillary, 4-5-flowered. — Loew, Arizona (158 a). 



Solanum triflorum, Nutt. — Herbaceous or a little woody at base, 

 unarmed, much branched, somewhat chaffy-hairy; leaves petioled, lanceo- 

 late to oval, deeply sinuate, or runcinate-lobed; calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 somewhat hairy; flower 4" in diameter, whitish; fruit 6" in diameter, 

 smooth, dark, reflexed. — South Park and Colorado Springs, Colorado (88). 



Solanum rostratum, Dunal. — A well-marked, prickly species, with 

 a slightly irregular, yellow corolla, one anther larger than the rest, and 

 prolonged into a somewhat curved beak, the prickly calyx inclosing the 

 fruit. — Arizona, Loew. 



Solanum el^eagnifolium, Cav. — Stems and midribs usually with short 



