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WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



POTATO FAMILY SOLANACEAE 



An interesting family furnishing a large assortment of edible foods, drugs and 

 narcotics. Potato, egg-plant, peppers, ground-cherry, tomato, Henbanes, Belladona, 

 Thorn-apple and Tobacco. 



1366. Nightshade Solanum eleagnifolium Weed, Imperial Valley. 



1367. Solanum nigrum and A weed occurring in many 



vars. different forms. Regard- 



ed as poisonous but ber- 

 ries apparently harmless 

 when ripe. 



Introduced, San Diego 

 County. 



Inner Coast Ranges and Si- 

 erras to southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



Hills of the Coast Ranges. 



1367a. 

 1368. 



1369. 

 1370. 



Solanum rostratum 



Solanum Xantii and 



Solanum umbelliferum 



and var. 

 Capsicum baccatum 



Wild along 

 frontier, 

 sandy or gravelly 



the Mexican 



situations. 



A low plant with creeping rootstocks, in open, 

 Good sized berries. Still gathered by Indians in July and August. Mono Lake 

 region north and south, frequently extending well up into the mountains. 



1371. Indian Cherry 



1372. Ground Cherry 



1373. 

 1374. 



1375. Thorn-Apple 



1376. Tolguacha 



1377. Purple Thorn- 



Apple 

 1377a. 



1378. Indian Tobacco 



Chamaesaracha nana 

 Physalis crassifolia 



Physalis Wrightii 

 Lycium Cooperi 



Datura Stramonium 



Datura meteloides 



Datura Tatula 



Datura discolor 



Nicotiana Bigelovii 



1379. 



Nicotiana attenuata 



1380. 



Nicotiana trigonophylla 



1381. Tree Tobacco 



Nicotiana glauca 



1382. 



1382a. 



1383. 



1384. Belladona 



Nicotiana rustica 

 Nicotiana Clevelandi 

 Petunia parviflora 

 Atropa Belladona 



San Bernardino region and 

 south to deserts. 



Imperial Valley. 



San Bernardino to Alohave 

 Desert. 



Introduced around towns, 

 probably poisonous. 



Common in southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



Introduced. Russian River 

 region. 



Introduced in Imperial Val- 

 ley region. 



Coast Ranges and interior 

 valley. 



Throughout California. 



Rocky places, borders 

 washes in southern moun- 

 tains and deserts. 



Sometimes very large. Ra- 

 vines through grain fields 

 from the mountains along 

 creeks ; interior valley and 

 coast. Rarely eaten by 

 stock, but deleterious. 



Reported from California, 

 probably an escape. 



Dry stream beds, near San 

 Diego. 



Reported as from seashore; 

 Monterey- south. 



Expensive drug. Now 



grown in parts of Cali- 

 fornia — Castro valley, 

 San Leandro. 



