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8. Solanum sisymbriifélium Lam. Viscid 
Nightshade. Fig. 3724. 
Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam. Ill. 2: 25. 1793. 
Annual, branched, 2°-4° high, villous-pubescent 
with long viscid hairs and armed all over with bright 
yellow prickles. Leaves thin, deeply pinnatifid into 
oblong toothed or sinuate lobes; flowers 14/13’ 
broad, light blue or white; stamens and style nearly 
erect; anthers all equal, yellow; corolla slightly 
irregular, its lobes deltoid or ovate-deltoid, acute or 
obtusish; fruit included in the accrescent calyx 
which has a prickly tube and thinnish lobes. 
In waste places and on ballast, especially about sea- 
ports, from Massachusetts to the Gulf States. Intro- 
duced from tropical America. June—Sept. 
g- Solanum Dulcamara L. Climbing or Bitter Nightshade. Blue Bindweed. 
Fellenwort. Bittersweet. Dogwood. Fig. 3725. 
Solanum Dulcamara L. Sp. Pl. 185. 1753. 
Perennial, pubescent with simple hairs or gla- 
brate, stem climbing or straggling, somewhat 
woody below, branched, 2°-8° long. Leaves peti- 
oled, ovate or hastate in outline, 2’-4’ long, 1’-22’ 
wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, usually 
slightly cordate at the base, some of them entire, 
some with a lobe on one side near the base, some 
deeply 3-lobed or 3-divided, with the terminal 
segment much the largest; cymes compound, lat- 
eral; pedicels slender, articulated at the base, 
spreading or drooping; flowers blue, purple or 
white, 5’-7” broad; calyx-lobes short, oblong, 
obtuse, persistent at the base of the berry; corolla 
deeply 5-cleft, its lobes triangular-lanceolate, acu- 
minate; berry oval or globose, red. 
In waste places or in moist thickets, sometimes 
appearing as if indigenous, Nova Scotia to Minne- 
sota, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and 
Kansas. May-—Sept. Woody nightshade. Poison- 
flower. Poison- or snake-berry. Scarlet berry. Natu- 
ralized from Europe. Native also of Asia. 
Solanum triquetrum Cav., a Texan and Mexican nearly glabrous herb, scarcely climbing, with 
somewhat ridged stems, 3-lobed deltoid-cordate or hastate leaves, lateral few-flowered cymes and 
globose red berries, is reported from Kansas. 
Solanum. Melongéna L., the egg-plant, with blue or purplish flowers, and an ovoid or obovoid 
berry up to 6’ long, is occasionally found in waste grounds. It is native of Asia. 
species: Lycium afrum L. 
7, LYCOPERSICON Mill. Gard. Dict. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. 
Annual, or rarely perennial, coarse branching or feebly climbing herbs, with 1-2-pinnately 
divided leaves, and lateral irregular raceme-like cymes of small yellowish flowers opposite 
the leaves. Calyx 5-parted, or rarely 6-parted, the segments linear or lanceolate. Corolla 
rotate, the tube very short, the limb 5-cleft or rarely 6-cleft, plicate. Stamens 5 (rarely 6), 
inserted on the throat of the corolla; filaments very short; anthers elongated, connate or 
connivent, introrsely longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-3-celled; style simple; stigma small, 
capitate. Berry in the wild plants globose or pyriform, much modified in cultivation, the 
calyx persistent at its base. [Greek, wolf-peach.] 
About 4 species, natives of North America, the following typical. 
