230 SOLANACE^E. Solarium. 



lateral, short, few-flowered : berries smooth, becoming red or yellow. (Tropical American, spar- 

 ingly introduced as weeds on and near the coast of Southern Atlantic States, growing as annuals.) 



S. ACr/LEATfssiMUM, Jacq. Villous with scattered long and weak jointed hairs, or soon 

 nearly glabrate, beset (even to the calyx) with slender-subulate straight prickles : leaves 

 pretty large, membranaceous, ovate or slightly cordate, mostly sinuate-pinnatifid : corolla 

 white, its lobes ovate-lanceolate : berry globose : seeds very flat and thin, with a membra- 

 naceous border. — Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 41. — Waste grounds, a weed near dwellings, from N. 

 Carolina to Florida and Texas. (Nat. from tropics.) 

 -1— H— H— Corolla 5-cleft or angulate-5-lobed, plicate in the bud : pubescence all or partly stellate. 



++ Indigenous perennials, a foot or two high, with deep running rootstocks : corolla violet, rarely 

 white: anthers lanceolate or linear-lanceolate: pedicels recurved or reflexed in fruit: mature 

 berries naked, merely subtended by the calyx. 



S. elaeagnifolium, Cav. Silvery-canescent all over by the dense and close scurf-like 

 pubescence, composed of many-rayed stellate hairs : stems often woody at base : prickles 

 small and acicular, sometimes copious, sometimes nearly or wholly wanting: leaves lan- 

 ceolate and varying to oblong and to linear, rather obtuse, sinuate-repand or entire : 

 cymes at first terminal, short-peduncled, few-flowered: pedicels rather long: calyx 5- 

 angled, with slender lobes fully as long as the tube : corolla moderately 5-lobed, about an 

 inch in diameter ; the lobes triangular-ovate : ovary white-tomentose : berry globose, seldom 

 half an inch in diameter, yellowish, or at length black. — Ic. iii. t. 243. S. leprosum, Ort. 

 Dec. ix. 115; Dunal, Sol. t. 12, a prickly and sinuate-leaved form. S. Jlavidum, Torr. in 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 227. S. Hindsianum, Benth. Sulph. 39. S. Texense, Engelm. & Gray, 

 PI. Lindh. i. 45. S. Rosmerianum, Scheele in Linn. xxi. 767. — Prairies and plains, Kansas to 

 Texas, and west to S. Arizona. (Lower Calif., Mex., Extra-trop. S. Amer.) 

 S. Torreyi, Gray. Cinereous with a somewhat close furfuraceous pubescence composed 

 of about equally 9-12-rayed hairs : prickles small and subulate, scanty along the stem and 

 midribs, or sometimes nearly wanting : leaves ovate with truncate or slightly cordate base, 

 sinuately 5-7-lobed (4 to 6 inches long); the lobes entire or undulate, obtuse, unarmed : 

 cymes at first terminal, loose, 2-3-fid : lobes of the calyx (often 6) short-ovate with a long 

 abrupt acumihation : corolla an inch and a half in diameter ; its lobes broadly ovate : 

 berry globose, an inch in diameter, yellow when mature. — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 44. S. 

 platyphyUum, Torr. in Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 227, not HBK. <S. mammosum ? Engelm. & Gray, 

 PI. Lindh. i. 46. — Prairies, &c, Kansas and Texas. — Anthers 4 to 5 lines long. Flowers 

 large and handsome. 

 S. Carolinense, L. Hirsute or roughish-pubescent with 4-8-rayed hairs, many of_them 

 with the central division elongated : prickles stout and subulate, yellowish, copious or 

 rarely scanty : leaves oblong or sometimes ovate, obtusely sinuate-toothed or lobed or sin- 

 uate-pinnatifid : cymes or racemes simple, soon lateral, loose, few-several-flowered : lobes 

 of the calyx acuminate : corolla an inch or less in diameter, light blue or rarely white, the 

 lobes ovate : berries about half inch in diameter, globose. — (Dill. Elth. t. 269 ; but the fig. 

 of Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 331 is dubious.) — Sandy soil and waste grounds, Connecticut and S. 

 Illinois to Florida and Texas. Southward a troublesome weed in cult, grounds. Var. 

 Floridanum, Chapm. Fl. 349, is a mere form with deep-lobed leaves. 



Var. hirsutum (S. hirsutum, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 109, S.pumilum, Dunal, 

 1. a), judging from an imperfect original specimen, is a depauperate and more hirsute 

 variety, little prickly, with leaves merely repand and tapering to the base, as in the low- 

 est leaves of 5. Carolinense. S. Pleei, Dunal, 1. c, may be a more developed state of the 

 same. — Milledgeville, Georgia, Boykin, &c. 



■h- ++ Introduced annuals or more enduring and woody in the tropics, with partly simple pubes- 

 cence: anthers lanceolate: racemose fructiferous pedicels merely spreading: berry wholly or 

 partly enveloped by the loose calyx. 

 S. siSYMBRiiFOLiuir, Lam. Green, stout, villous-pubescent with simple more or less glan- 

 dular and viscid hairs, mixed on the leaves with some few-rayed stellate hairs (their middle 

 division elongated), much armed even to the calyx with long-subulate straight prickles: 

 leaves deeply pinnatifid and the oblong lobes sinuate or even again somewhat pinnatifid : 

 flowers several or numerous in terminal or soon lateral pedunculate racemes : corolla light 

 blue or white, an inch or more in diameter, 5-lobed : lobes of the 5-parted calyx lanceolate, 

 becoming ovate-lanceolate and at length loosely and completely or incompletely surround- 

 ing the globose red berry : seeds minutely reticulate-pitted. — Dunal in DC. 1. c. S. vis- 



