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Convolvulus sepium, L., Calystegia sepium, R. Brown. (Gray’s 
Manual.) (HEDGE GINDWEED. ) 
Commonly climbing over bushes in damp places. Often cultivated. 
Quite variable in the color of the flowers. 
Convolvulus spithameus, L., Calystegia spithamea, Purs/. 
(Gray’s Manual.) 
Reported from two localities but not represented in the P. A. S. 
collection. The identification is a little uncertain. 
Cuscuta Epilinum, Weihe. (FLax DoppER.) 
‘Old flax fields, Rowley, 1826;” (Oakes in Hovey’s Mag. Vol. 
XIII). ‘‘ Well known to farmers who have their flax fields greatly 
injured by it” (Dr. Cutler, 1788, in Mem. Am. Acad., Vol. I). (Adv. 
from Eu ) Not now observed, flax being seldom cultivated. 
Cuscuta Gronovii, Willd. 
Common on herbaceous plants in damp places. ‘‘Common in 
hedges, etc.” (Dr. Cutler, 1783, in Mem. Am. Acad., Vol. I). 
SOLANACEZ. 
(NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 
Solanum Dulcamara, LZ. (BITTERSWEET.) 
‘* By European colonists, was carried to northeast America (later 
perhaps than 1670, for it is not mentioned by Josselyn), and has 
become completely naturalized.” (Dr. Chas. Pickering, Chron. 
Hist. Pl. p. 531). 
Common in damp places. Often called ‘‘ Deadly Nightshade” in 
this region, which name belongs more properly tothe next. Neither 
species is poisonous to handle as is often imagined. 
Solanum nigrum, Z. (CoMMON NIGHTSHADE.) 
Gloucester, Andover (Mrs. Downs), Salem (in two places); New- 
buryport, etc. Quite common. The American form of this species 
was thought by Dr. Pickering, from specimens collected about 1824, 
to be considerably different from the European plant, and Gray’s 
new Flora of N. A. gives this as a native species. 
Solanum rostratum, Dunal. 
Rockport (Mrs. Wheeler). An immigrant from the southwest. 
Physalis Alkekengi, Z. (StrRAawBERRY TOMATO; GROUND CHERRY. ) 
Frequently cultivated and occasionally spontaneous. ‘‘ Salem Neck, 
near a compost heap” (memo. G. D. Phippen). Mr. Phippen also 
states that in Salem, some years since, a person styling himself the 
Rev. sold the fruit of this plant at fifty cents a berry attributing 
to it some rare virtue and actually found customers. (Adv. from 
Eu.) 

