348 SOLANACE^E. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 



seeded capsule or berry. Placentae adnate to the partition and projecting 

 into the cells. Seeds eampylotropous or amphitropous. Embryo mostly 

 slender and curved in fleshy albumen. — Chiefly narcotic poisons. 



Synopsis. 



( 1. Fruit a berry. 



* Corolla ^-heel-shaped or short bell-shaped. 



*- Anthers connivent. Calyx unchanged in fruit. 



1. SOLANTM. Anthers opening by terminal pores. Berry juicy. 



2. CAPSICUM. Anthers opening lengthwise. Berry juiceless. 



t- -i- Anthers separate, opening lengthwise. Fruiting calyx inflated. 

 .3. PIIYSALIS. B rry juicy. Calyx entire at the base. 

 A. N1CANDHA. Berry dry. Calyx 10-toothed at the base. 



* * Corolla funnel-shaped. 

 5. LYCIUM. Anthers opening lengthwise. Berry juicy. Shrubs. 



§ 2. Fruit a capsule- 

 G. DATURA. Calyx prismatic or terete, circumscLsiilc. Capsule spiny. 



1. SOLANUM, L. Nightshade. 



Calyx 5-toothed or 5-cleft. Corolla wheel-shaped, 5-lobed, valvule, with the 

 margins turned inward. Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla, ex- 

 Berted ; the filaments very short : anthers opening by 2 terminal pores, conni- 

 vent. Stigma ohtuse. Berry juicy, 2-cclled, many-seeded. — Herbs or shrubs, 

 often armed with prickles. Leaves alternate or in pairs. Flowers opposite the 

 axils, or above them. 



* Unarmed: cymes or racemes corymbed : corolla 5-parted. 



1. S. nigrum, L. Herbaceous, mostly pubescent with simple hairs; stem 

 erect, branching; the branchlets wing-angled, and more or less toothed ; leaves 

 pctioled, oblong-ovate, toothed or entire ; flowers somewhat umbelled, drooping, 

 small, white; berry black. — Damp soil, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. 

 July -Sept. — Stem l°-3° high, diffuse. Leaves 2' -4' long, when in pairs, 

 unequal. Corolla 4" -6" wide. Berry 2" -3" in diameter. 



2. S. Radula, Vahl. Shrubby, and very rough throughout with short 

 rigid rusty stellate hairs ; leaves oblong, entire, acute, tapering into a short peti- 

 ole; cymes slender, long-peduncled, once or twice forking, many flowered, 

 longer than the leaves; flowers small, linear in the bud ; co:olla white, deeply 

 parted, the lobes linear-lanceolate, obtuse; anthers hairy. — South Florida — 

 Leaves 2' -3' long. Cymes 3'-4' long. Corolla 5" wide. 



3. S. verbascifolium, L. Shrubby, an<l hoary throughout with dense 

 soft stellate bain : leaves large, ovate-oblong, acute at each end, entire ; cymes 

 on Ion- and wry stout peduncles, forking, pompactly many-flowered ; flowers 

 globoae-oborate in the bud ; calyx-lobes ovate, acute ; corolla-lobes oblong, 

 obtuse . anthers oblong, twice as long as the slender filaments ; ovary woolly. — 

 South Florida Oct. - Dec. — Shrub 4°-5° high. Leaved t>'-9' long. Co- 

 rolla ^' wide 





