228 SOLANACE^. 



Solanum. 



3 or 4 lines in diameter, filaments more or less hairy inside, style little if at all projecting, 

 and fruiting calyx merely spreading. To this belongs mainly the following, referred to N 

 America by Dunal : viz. S. pterocaulon, Dunal. (Dill. Elth. t. 275, fig. 356), S. crenato-dentatum, 

 ptycanthum, and probably inops, DC. — Common in damp or shady, especially cultivated and 

 waste grounds, appearing as if introduced. (Cosmopolite.) 



Var. viLi.6suM,jyMll.^Low, somewhat viscid-pubescent or villous: leaves conspicu- 

 ously angulate-dentate, small : filaments glabrous to the base : berries yellow. — S. vil- 

 losum, Lam. — Ballast-grounds, Philadelphia, &c — Var. alAtum (S. datum, Moench, S. 

 mimatum, Benth.), a similar form, but with angled branches and red berries, has reached the 

 shores of San Francisco Bay, California. (Adventive from S. Eu.) 



Var. Dill^nii. Taller and leaves mostly entire or merely repand : filaments more or 

 less bearded, at least at the base : style exserted or sometimes not exceeding the stamens. 

 — Dill. 1. c. fig. 355. S. Dillenii, Schult, Dunal, 1. c. ; A. Braun, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 

 1853. — Florida to S. America. Entire-leaved forms differ from the next only in the hairy 

 filaments. S. Americanum, Mill. Diet., with glabrous leaves, should be the same, but S. 

 Besseri, Weinm., to which Dunal refers it, is a canescently-puberulent variety, with rather 

 large and entire leaves. (S.American.) 



Var. nodiflorum. Slender, often tall : leaves entire, rarely few-toothed, acuminate : 

 filaments glabrous : style generally exserted : calyx in fruit reflexed. — S. nodiflorum, Jacq'. 

 Ic. Rar. t. 326. — Texas and New Mexico to S. America. Seems to pass into 



Var. Douglasii, Gray. Either herbaceous and annual, or southward decidedly with 

 lignescent stem 3 to 5 or even 10 feet high : leaves variously angulate-toothed, or some 

 nearly entire : flowers larger : corolla 5 to 8 lines in diameter, white, or sometimes light 

 blue : filaments hairy inside : fruiting calyx erect. — Bot. Calif, i. 538. S. Douglasii, Dunal 

 in DC. 1. c. 48. S. umbelliferum, var. tracliycladon, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. vii. 17, a remarkably 

 large form. — W. California. 



8. gracile, Link. Cinereous-pubescent or puberulent, rather tall (2 or 3 feet high), with 

 virgate spreading branches : leaves ovate and ovate-lanceolate, acutish or obtuse, entire or 

 nearly so : corolla white or bluish (about 5 lines in diameter) : filaments slightly hairy 

 inside : style exserted beyond the anthers : stigma rather large : calyx somewhat appressed 

 to the (black) berry. — Hort. Berol.; Dunal, 1. c. 54, not Sendt. — Coast of N. Carolina, 

 Curtis. Ballast-grounds near Philadelphia. (Nat. or adv. from Extra-trop. S. Amer.) 



# * # Perennial and more or less woody, at least the base, never prickly : anthers merely oblong 

 or linear-oblong, not tapering but very blunt at apex : leaves rarely geminate. 



H— Pubescence of simple or in one species of branching hairs, never stellate: cells of the anther 

 opening by a short vertical slit at the apex, which extends downward usually for the whole 

 length. 



++ Corolla 5-parted : pedicels solitary or few in a lateral fascicle : common peduncle hardly any : 

 berry large, scarlet. 



S. Pseudo-Capsicum, L. (Jerusalem Cherry.) Low erect shrub, with spreading 

 branches, very leafy, glabrous : leaves oblanceolate or oblong, often repand, bright green 

 and shining, narrowed at base into a short petiole : corolla white : berry globose, scarlet, 

 rarely yellow, half inch or so in diameter. — Cult, for ornament, nat. in Florida, &c, from 

 Madeira, where probably it is not indigenous. 



++ -H- Corolla 5-parted or deeply cleft, violet, purple, or sometimes white : peduncles slender,' ter- 

 minal or soon lateral, bearing several flowers in a paniculate or umbel-like cyme; the pedicels 

 nodose-articulated at base : stems or branches mostly sarmentose or flexuous : leaves inclined to 

 be cordate and often 3-lobed : berries small, red. 



S. Dulcamara, L. (Bittersweet.) More or less pubescent: shrubby stems climbing 

 and somewhat twining several feet high : leaves ovate and acuminate, mostly slightly 

 cordate, some with an auriculate lobe on one or both sides at base, which are sometimes 

 nearly separated into small leaflets : corolla half inch in diameter : berry oval. — Curt. 

 Lond. ii. t. 5; Bigel. Med. t. 18. — Near dwellings and in low grounds, Northern Atlantic 

 States. (Nat. from Eu.) 



S. triquetrum, Cav. Nearly glabrous : stems suffruticose, flexuous or sarmentose, 

 hardly at all climbing, a foot to a yard high : branches angled but hardly triquetrous : 

 leaves deltoid-cordate (and the larger 2 inches long), varying to hastate, and in smaller 

 forms to hastate-3-lobed or even 5-lobed, with the middle lobe lanceolate or linear 

 and prolonged (an inch or only half an inch long) : cymes commonly umbellately few- 



