S0LANUM. 
73 
fl. S. nigrum L. Erva de S ta Maria. 
Fetid or sometimes slightly musk-scented erect bushy leafy 
ami. herbs, with dark dull lurid gr. nearly smooth or naked 
foliage ; st. straight erect or virgate and with the short erecto- 
patent branches either naked verruculate and denticulately 
narrow-winged, or simply angular and more or less furry- 
pubescent ; 1. shining naked smooth, or thinly and minutely 
substrigulose and glabrescent, subcuneately ovate or rhomboidal 
acute undulate, sparingly and irregularly angularly toothed or 
repandly subentire, with rather long smooth or more or less 
funy-pubescent petioles ; cymes racemoso-umbellate superaxil- 
lary, mostly 4-6-fld. ; ped. and pedic. slender adpres^edly 
striguloso-pubescent or puberulous, the latter thickened up- 
wards and strongly deflexed in fr. ; cor. outside towards the tips 
of lobes pubescent, twice the length or more of cal. which is a 
little enlarged fleshy loosely open and spreading or reflexed in 
fr. ; fil. smooth or pubescent ; berries drooping black opaque 
smooth shining. — S. nigrum ( vulgatum ) Linn. Sp. 266 excl. varr. ; 
Vill. Dauph. ii. 494 excl. varr. ; Poir. in Lam. Diet. iv. 288 excl. 
varr. ; Desf. i. 194 excl. var. ; Brot. i. 283 ; Pers. i. 224 excl. 
varr. ; Dun. Hist. Sol. 152 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. (ed. 2) i. 399 
( ot . vulgatum') ; Buch 193. no. 190 ; Sm. E. Fl. i. 318 ; WB. iii. 
121 ; Koch 384 excl. varr. ; Seub. Fl. Az. 38 ; Coss. et Germ. 
273 (a. vulgare) ; Webb Spic. Gorg. 162 ; J. A. Schm. Fl. Verd. 
237 ; Dun. in DC. xiii. 50 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 543 a, excl. varr. 
/3, y ; Bab. 233 excl. var. /3 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 526. S. vul- 
gare &c. Moris, iii. 520, § 13. t. 1. f. 1. S. officinarum Fl. Dan. 
t. 460 (opt.). — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1-3, ccc ; PS. reg. 3, and 
Ilheo de Cima at top; ND. r; GD. reg. 2, r ; SD. reg. 2, rr. 
Roadsides, waste ground, in vineyards, gardens &c. a imiversal 
weed, at all seasons. 
a. gldbrum : st. branches and 1. nearly or quite smooth, the 
former stouter thicker verruculate and denticulately narrow- 
winged ; ped. pedic. and cal. adpressedly puberulous ; fil. smooth. 
— One of the commonest weeds in gardens vineyards roadsides 
and waste ground everywhere chiefly below 2000 ft., but fol- 
lowing cultivation up to 5000 ft. All about Funchal, the 
Mount, S ,a Anna, &c. 
/3. hebecaulon ; st. and branches funy-pubescent simply an- 
gular, 1. substrigulose the lower sometimes furry-pubescent, ped. 
pedic. cal. and til. striguloso-pubescent. — S. nigrum Koch 1. c. — 
With a here and there, but rare j Levada de S ta Luzia above * 
Funchal, Feb. 
A low bushy pi. 6-12 in. (rarely more) high with a rank 
heavy smell and peculiarly dark lurid blackish foliage. Root 
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