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long, sordid yellowish and greenish-striate. Sandia 
Mts. towards the top, in shade of spruces and firs. 
Not very commion. 
16, SOLONACEAE, NIGHT-SHADE FAMILY. 
Herbs or shrubs with alternate leaves, regular 5- 
memrous flowers and mostly plated corolla, mostly 
equal stamens inserted on the corolla, single style and 
Fruat a berry. 
Anthers united or connivent. - (1) soLanum 
Anthers unconnected, mostly shorter than fila- 
filaments. 
Corolla* rotate-campanulate, or rotate. 
Calyx herbaceous and closely covering 
fruit - ..- (2) CHAMAESARARACHA. 
Calyx becoming lage and inflated over 
fruat - (3) PHYSALIs. 
Corolla funnelform or tubular (4) tycrium. 
Fruit a pod, corolla elongated. 
Seeds flattened, large, pod prickly (5) parura. 
pete not re ey small and numerous 
- (6) NICOTIANA. 
be SOLANUM, Tourn. Nightshade. 
Ours herbs, good- sized leaves often accompanied by 
a smaller lateral one, mostly lateral and extra-axillary 
peduncles, 5-parted or cleft calyx and rotate corolla, 
exserted stamens with very short filaments, and an- 
thers opening at tip by two pores and usually 2-seed- 
ed berry. 
Fruit naked, stamens all alike. 
Not prickly, annual, flowers white, s. TRIFLORUM. 
Prickly, anthers long, corolla violet, 
- - - - - -  §, ELABAGINIFOLIUM. 
Frut very prickly, lowest another much the longest, 
- : S. ROSTRATUM. 
Ss. TRIFLORUM, Nutt, Green, slightly hairy or nearly 
glabrous, low and spreading; leaves oblong, deeply 
pinnatifid with wide rounded sinuses; lobes 7-9, lan- 
ceolate, entire or 1-2 teeth; peduncles lateral 1-3 flow- 
ered; pedicels nodding; berries green, the size of a 
small cherry. Near Ranchos de Atrisco. July and 
August, 1908. 
S. ELAEAGNIFOLIUM, Cav. (“Trompillo.”) Silvery- 
canescent with dense scurf-like pubescence of many 
rayed hairs, prickles small, slender; leaves from ob- 
long to linear sinuate-repand or entire. Berry 1-2 in. 
(37) 
