348 SOLANACE^. (nightshade family.) 



seeded capsule or berry. Placentae adnate to the partition and projecting 

 into the cells. Seeds campylotropous or amphitropous. Embryo mostly 

 blender and curved in fleshy albumen. — Chiefly narcotic poisons. 



Synopsis. 



§.1. Fruit a berry. 



* Corolla wheel-shaped or short hell-shaped. 



4- Anthers connivent. Calyx uDchanged in fruit. 



1. SOLANUM. Anthers opening by terminal pores. Berry juicy. 



2. CAPSICUM. Anthers opening lengthwise. Berry juiceless. 



■(- -1- Anthers separate, opening lengthwise. Fruiting calyx inflated. 



3. PHYSALIS. E rry juicy. Calyx entire at the base. 



4. NICANDRA. Berry dry. Calyx 10-toothed at the base. 



* * Corolla funnel-shaped. 



5. LYCIUM. Anthers opening lengthwise. Berry juicy. Shrubs. 



§ 2. Fruit a capsule. 



6. DATURA. Calyx prismatic or terete, circumscissile. Capsule spiny. 



1. SOLANUM, L. Nightshade. 



Calyx 5-toothed or 5-cleft. Corolla wheel-shaped, 5-lobed, valvate, with the 

 margins turned inward. Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla, ex- 

 serted ; the filaments very short : anthers opening by 2 terminal pores, conni- 

 vent. Stigma obtuse. Berry juicy, 2-celled, many-seeded. — Herbs or shrubs, 

 often armed with pricliles. Leaves alternate or in pairs. Flowers opposite the 

 axils, or above them. 



# Ukqmiied: cymes or racemes carymbed : corolla 5-paiied. 



1. S. nigrum, L. Herbaceous, mostly pubescent with simple hairs ; stem 

 erect, branching ; the branchlets wing-angled, and more or less toothed ; leaves 

 petioled, oblong-ovate, toothed or entire ; flowers somewhat umbelled, drooping, 

 small, white; berry black. — Damp soil, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. 

 July -Sept. — Stem l°-3° high, diffuse. Leaves 2' -4' long, when in pairs, 

 unequal. Corolla 4" -6" wide. Berry 2" -3" in diameter. 



2. S. Radula, Vahl. Shrubby, and very rough throughout with short 

 rigid rusty stellate hairs ; leaves oblong, entire, acute, tapering into a short peti- 

 ole; cymes slender, long-peduncled, once or twice forking, many-flowered, 

 longer than the loaves ; flowers small, linear in the bud ; coioUa white, deeply 

 parted, the lobes linear-lanceolate, obtuse ; anthers hairy. — South Florida. — 

 Leaves 2' -3' long. Cymes 3' - 4' long. Corolla 5" wide. 



3. S. verbaseifolium, L. Shrubby, and hoary throughout with dense 

 soft stellate hairs ; leaves large, ovate-oblong, acute at each end, entire ; cymes 

 on long and veiy stout peduncles, forking,. compactly many-flowered ; flowers 

 globose-obovate in the bud; calyx-lobes ovate, acute; corolla-lobes oblong, 

 obtuse , anthers oblong, twice as long as the slender filaments ; ovary woolly. — 

 South Florida. Oct. - Dec. — Shrub 4° - 5° high. Leaves 6' - 9' long. Co- 

 rolla J' wide 



