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nigrum , subacid and not more nauseous than raw tomatos, very 
juicy. Seeds yellowish w. much thicker or more convex than 
in S. nigrum hut otherwise like them in shape and delicate re- 
ticulate punctation. 
The whole pi. always exhales a faint musky odour. It varies 
much in degree of villosity or hoariness from season, soil or 
situation, passing gradually into 
/3. Icevigata Lowe; 1. suhglahrous membranous dull or dark 
full gr. not hoary hut sometimes glaucescent. — S. miniatum 
Bernh. “Begriff. Pflanz. 55, 65” (Koch); Willd. Enum. 236; 
Poir. Suppl. iii. 759; Dun. Hist. Sol. 156; Koch 583; WB. ! 
iii. 121 ; Dun. in DC. xiii. 56 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 527. S. 
villosum Wats. ! in Godm. Nat. Hist, of Azores 198 (from Flores 
spec, in HH.). S. nigrum b var. Vill. Dauph. ii. 494. S. 
nigrum a, suhv. miniatum Coss. et Germ. 274; y. miniatum 
Gren. et Godr. ii. 543; /3. Bab. 233. S. rubrum Mill.! Diet, 
no. 4 (in Herb. Banks.) ; Poir. in Lam. Diet. iv. 293 (partly) ; 
Dun. Hist. 155 ; Dun. in DC. xiii. 57. Solanum baccis rubris 
phceniceisve &c. Moris. Hist. iii. 520. no. 2. — At higher or in 
moister situations and in winter chiefly or early spring, only 
occasionally in Mad. Also (Jan. 1865) at Lisbon in waste 
ground about the Museum, Buenos Ayres. — A mere local state 
or temporary condition of a., the distinctions drawm by authors 
between the two all breaking down in practice. Thus I find 
usually the branches of a in Mad. denticulately narrow-winged 
or at least strongly angular ; a character ascribed distinctively 
by authors to S. miniatum Bernh. But the late Dr. C. Lemann 
in litt. July 23, 1838, says, “the Mad. pi. has not winged 
branches;” and he refers it on this account and from its 1. 
being “ in a young state at least villous ” to S. villosum Lam. 
instead of (as I had done) to S. miniatum Bernh. The berries 
vary considerably in Mad. in intensity of colour, and are not at 
all, unlikely to become permanently quite pale or even y. 
(“ luteoe ” Dillen., Moris., Bernh., Koch 11. cc.) in the colder or 
moister climates of England, France or Germany; as, parallelly, 
in the case of S. auriculatum Ait. introduced from Brazil to 
Mad. It is however certain that neither the size, the ovoidal 
or globose shape or col. of the berries, nor the less or greater 
smoothness of the 1. nor the winged or terete character of the 
branches appear in very numerous spec, in BII. and IIH. to 
afford any reliable or constant distinctions between S. miniatum 
and S. villosum Auct. And thus also in Mad. we have the den- 
ticulately winged branches and or. -red or scarlet berries of S. 
miniatum Auct. combined with the hirsute branches and vel- 
vety-tomentose 1. of S. villosum Lam.; and again sometimes 
(Lemann) the round unwinged branches and villous or velvety- 
