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BOTANY AND PHARMACOGNOSY. 



Solanum carolinense (Horse nettle) is a perennial herb having 

 numerous yellow prickles on the branches and leaves. The leaves 

 are oblong or ovate, irregularly lobed (Fig. 176a). The flowers 



Fig. 176a. Horse nettle {Solannm carolinense) showing the prickly, repand 

 or lobed. leaves and the small globular berries. 



are white or light blue and occur in lateral cymes. The fruit is 

 an orange-yellow, glabrous berry. The plant is common in waste 

 places in Canada and the United States east of the Mississippi. 



