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Convolvulus sepium, L., Calystegia sepium, B. Brown. (Gray's 



Manual.) (Hedge Bindweed.) 



Commonly climbing over bushes in damp places. Often cultivated. 



Quite variable in the color of the flowers. 

 Convolvulus spithameeus, L., Calystegia spithamaja, Pursh. 



(Gray's Manual.) 



Reported from two localities but not represented in the P. A. S. 



collection. The identification is a little uncertain. 



Cuscuta EpiUnum, Weihe. (Flax Dodder.) 

 "Old flax flelds, Rowley, 1826;" (Oakes in Hovey's Mag. Vol. 

 XIII). "Well known to farmers who have their flax fields greatly 

 injured by it " (Dr. Cutler, 1783, in Mem. Am. Acad., Vol. I). (Adv. 

 from Eu ) Not now observed, flax being seldom cultivated. 



Cuscuta Grronovii, Willd. 

 Common on herbaceous plants in damp places. " Common in 

 hedges, etc." (Dr. Cutler, 1783, in Mem. Am. Acad., Vol. I). 



SOI.AITACE.ai. 



(Nightshade Family.) 



Solanum Dulcamara, L. (Bittbeswbet.) 

 " By European colonists, was carried to northeast America (later 

 perhaps than 1670, for it is not mentioned by Josselyn), and has 

 become completely natursJized." (Dr. Chas. Pickering, Chron. 

 Hist. PI. p. 531). 



Common in damp places. Often called "Deadly Nightshade" in 

 this region, which name belongs more properly to the next. Neither 

 species is poisonous to handle as is often imagined. 



Solanum nigrum, L. (Common Nightshade.) 

 Gloucester, Andover (Mrs. Downs), Salem (in two places) ; New- 

 buryport, etc Quite common. The American form of this species 

 was thought by Dr. Pickering, from specimens collected about 1824, 

 to be considerably difierent from the European plant, and Gray's 

 new Flora of N. A. gives this as a native species. 



Solanum rostratum, Dunal. 

 Bockport (Mrs. Wheeler). An immigrant from the southwest. 



Physalis Alkekengi, L. (Strawberry Tomato ; Ground Cherry.) 

 ■Frequently cultivated and occasionally spontaneous. " Salem Neck, 

 near a compost heap" (memo. G. D. Phippen). Mr. Phippen also 

 states that in Salem, some years since, a person styling himself the 



Rev. sold the fruit of this plant at fifty cents a berry atti-ibuting 



to it some rare virtue and actually found customers. (Adv. from 

 Eu.) 



