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WEEDS AXD rsEruL pla:?sT3. 



oblong, acute, sinuate-angled and often subhastate. prickly on both sides ; 

 racemes simple, loose ; fruit globose, small, orange yellow. 

 Caeolixiax Soi^tjm. Horse-nettle. 



Boot perennial, ^em 1 to near 2 feet Mgh, annual but firm and almost shrubby, hoUcw, 

 branching, armed with sharp spreading prickles. Leaves -k-^ inches long, aculeate on tha 

 midrib and larger nerves on both sides, clothed with a hirsute stellate pubescence ; 

 Detioles half an inch to an inch and a half long. Macemes lateral, opposite to and often 



Fig. 164. The Horse-nettle (Solanmn Carohnense). 



