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SMILAX-SONCHCrS. 
pinnatifid ; umbels terminal, large, rayed; involucres many-leaved. 3-4 C 
The leaves that grow in water are bipinnatiM. Swamps. 
linea're, leafets linear, lanceolate, acutely and finely serrate ; stem tall. 
SMILAX. 20—6. (Asparagi.) [From smileus, to- cut ; so called from the roughness of its 
leaves and stalk.] 
rotundifo'Ua, (green brier, w-g. Ju, %.) stem prickly, snb-terete j leaves un- 
armed, roundish-ovate, short-acuminate, cordate, 5-7 nerved ; berries sphe- 
rical. 
SOLANUM. 5—1. (SblanecB.) [From solor, comfort, because some species give ease by their 
narcotic quality.] 
dulcama'ra, (bitter-sweet, p-b. Ju. T^.) stem unarmed,^woodyy climbing; lower 
leaves mostly cordate, glabrous, upper ones mostly guitar-hastate •,. few flow- 
ered ; corymbs opposite to the leaves. This is the true bitter-sweet; though 
the Celastrus sc^ndens is called so by some. Damp. 
ni'grum, (deadly night-shade, w-p-b. J. Igf.) stem unarmed, erectish or erect;, 
branches angled, dentate; leaws ovate, repand, glabrous ; racemes 2-ranked, 
nodding. 1-2 f. Ex. 
tubero'^snm, (potato, b-w. Ju. T^.) stem wing-angled, unarmed ; leaves inter- 
ruptedly pinnate; leafets entire; flowers sub-corymbed;. roots knobbed, tu- 
berous. Cultivated. 
lycoper^'sicum, (love-apple, tomato, y. S. ©.) stem unarmed ; leaves pinnati- 
fid, gashed; racemes 3-parted, leafless ; fruit glabrous, torulose. Ex. 
pseudo-capsi^cum, (Jerusalem cherry, T^.) stem woody; leaves lanceolate, re- 
pand ; umbels sessile. Ex, 
SOLE A. 5—1. (Cistiy 
con^'color, (Ap. w-y. %.) stem simple, erect ; leaves wedge-form, lanceolate, 
sessile, irregularly toothed above ; peduncles short, 2-3-flowered ; calyx 
nearly as long as the petals ; spur none. 2-4 f. Rocks. Green violet. 
SOLID AGO. 17—2. iCorymbifercb.) [From soKdo, to make firm, from its supposed virtue IR 
healing wounds.] 
A. Floioers one-sided ; leaves with three combined nerves, 
canaden^'sis, (Canadian golden-rod, y. Ju. '2|..) stem downy ; leaves lanceolate, 
serrate, rough ; racemes panicled, recurved ; rays hardly longer than the 
disk ; stem angular ; leaves sessile, three inches long, sometimes nearly 
entire. 2-5 f. 
gigan"tea, (giant golden -rod, y. Au. %.') stem erect, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, 
smooth, serrate, rough-edged, obscurely 3-nerved ; racemes panicled; pe- 
duncles rough-haired ; rays short. 4-7 f. 
laterijio'ra, (side-flowered golden-rod, y. Au. %.) stem erect, a little hairy; 
leaves lanceolate, slightly 3-nerved, glabrous, rough-edged ; lower ones sub- 
serrate; racemes panicled, a little recurved, sub-secund ; flowers large, the 
rays being much longer than the calyx ; stem striated, often purplish, pin- 
natifid, with numerous lateral flowering branches. 2-3 f. 
B. Racemes or fiowers one-sided; leaves veiny. 
altitis" sima, (variable golden rod, y. Au. %..) stem erect, rough-haired ; leaves 
lanceolate; lower ones deeply serrate, scabrous, rugose. The panicled ra- 
cemes are very numerous, and spread every v/ay, so as to bring the one- 
sided flowers upwards ; rays half as long as the calyx ; the serratures of the 
leaves are equal and unequal; it is hairy or villose ^ and sometimes the ra- 
cemes diverge but little. 3-6 f. 
paf'ula, (spread golden-rod, y. S. %.) stem erect, glabrous; leaves oval, ser- 
rate, glabrous ; radical ones oblong-spatulate ; racemes panicled, spread- 
ing; peduncles pubescent. Stem wand-like, angular, and striate; stem- 
leaves sessile, about an inch long, pointed ; the radical ones resemble those 
of the ox-eyed daisy; racemes about an inch long ; flowers rather large. 2 f. 
C. Racemes erect. 
bi-color, (white golden-rod, w. Au. %.) stem hairy ; leaves oval, hairy ; lower 
ones serrate ; those on the flower branches entire, numerous, and small; 
scale and calyx obtuse; racemes are short and compact; rays white^ some- 
what numerous and shortish ; disk florets rather numerous. 2-4 f. 
eONCIIUS. 17—1. {Corymbiferoi.) 
dera'ceus^ (sow-thistle, y. Ju. leaves lance-oblong,, clasping, slightly lootb- 
