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WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 



Bitter-sweet Solanum. Bitter-sweet. Woody Nightshade. 



Perrenial. Stem 4-8 feet long, flexuose, smoothish. Leaves 2 - 4: inches long ; petioles 

 half au inch to an inch in length. Cywi^s opposite the leaves, noddmg ; pedicels half an 

 inch long, clavate ; common peduncle mhont 2 inches in length ; coroikt violet-purple, the 

 lobes spreading or rcflexed, each with 2 green dots or tubercles at base. Berry near half 

 an inch long. 



About houses, &c. Native of Europe. J"?. July. J?V. September. 



Obs. ExtensiveTy naturalized in fertile soils, and is often tolerated and 



Fig. 161. A branch of Nightshade (Solanum nigrum). 162. A fruit. 163. The same 

 divided 



