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Cuscuta (Clistogrammica) decora, Choisy, Engelm. — In the Gila 

 Valley on a low, spiny, rhamaceous shrub. Rothrock (326), 1874. A 

 large form, the same as the one from California. 



SOLANACEJE. 



Solanum nigrum, L., var. Douglasii, Gray (S. Bouglasii, Dunal, in 

 DC. Prod, xiii, p. 48). — Glabrous or even tomentose-puberulent leaves 

 (sometimes in California specimens thickish, on short petioles) deeply and 

 irregularly crenate; flowers 6" in diameter. — Camp Grant, Ariz. (388). 



Var. Dillenii, Gray (or near it, fide Professor Gray). (S. Dillenii, 

 Dunal, DC. Prod, xiii, p. 47.) — Slightly puberulent; leaves entire or nearly 

 so, acute, attenuate into a petiole, 2-3 % long and one-third as wide ; flowers 

 umbellate, erect; short filaments more or less hairy; fruit reflexed ; style 

 hairy, especially at base, and geniculate toward the capitate stigma ; flowers 

 4" in diameter. — Camp Lowell, Ariz. (707). Very slender and straggling 

 herb. Probably the same as 8. nodiflorum of the Mex. Bound. Survey. 



Solanum Jamesii, Torr. (in Ann. Lye. N". Y. 2, p. 227, and Gray in Sill. 

 Jour. n. ser. 22, p. 284). — Glabrous, or with a few longish hairs; leaves oval; 

 leaflets 7-11, decreasing and becoming distant toward the base, slightly de- 

 current; calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, half as long as the corolla; filaments 

 smooth; style smooth, moderately thickened upwardly; stigma slightly two - 

 lobed and capitate; inner valve of the anthers so conspicuously shorter 

 than the outer as to make the anthers (seen from the extremity) almost 

 bilabiate ; racemes extra-axillary, 4-5-flowered. — Loew, Arizona (158 a). 



Solanum triflorum, Nutt. — Herbaceous or a little woody at base, 

 unarmed, much branched, somewhat chaffy-hairy; leaves petioled, lanceo- 

 late to oval, deeply sinuate, or runcinate-lobed; calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 somewhat hairy; flower 4" in diameter, whitish; fruit 6" in diameter, 

 smooth, dark, reflexed. — South Park and Colorado Springs, Colorado (88). 



Solanum rostratum, Dunal. — A well-marked, prickly species, with 

 a slightly irregular, yellow corolla, one anther larger than the rest, and 

 prolonged into a somewhat curved beak, the prickly calyx inclosing the 

 fruit. — Arizona, Loew. 



Solanum el^eagnifolium, Cav. — Stems and midribs usually with short 



