332 88. Dulcamara. 26. SOLANEiE. Pl.ex.lor> 
&. hirsuta. Leaves rough with hairs. 
Solatium lignosum, seu dulcamara marina, Raii $yn. 265, 2. 
Sea-coasts, Ray, Hudson. 
VII. 89. SOLANUM. Pliny. Nightshade . 
Calyx 5-parted ; corolla rotate, 5-lobes ; lobes naked at 
bottom ; anthers 5, oblong, opening at their tip by 2 pores; 
stigma blunt; berry smooth, fleshy, 2-celled, many-seeded; 
seeds smooth; corculum spiral. — Stem shrubby or herba- 
ceous ; leaves simple, sometimes pinnate with an odd one, 
in many doubly ; peduncles solitary or many ; one or many'* 
flowered ; extra-axillary, or scattered or terminal. 
a. Stem herbaceous , not armed; leaves sinuate or lobed ; 
racemes forked , rather umbelled or panicled, drooping , extra - 
foliaceous ; peduncles short ; flowers small , white , or light 
violet ; berry small, globular. Maurella. 
1 . Solanum nigrum. Black nightshade. 
Stem angular ; leaves ovate, toothed, angular, bald ; 
berries black. 
Solanum vulgare, Raii Syn. 265, 4 ; Park. S46. 
Solanum hortense, Ger. em. 339, 1. 
Solanum nigrum, Lin. S. P. 266. 
Solanum humile, Salisb. Prod. 134. 
Garden nightshade. M or ell. Petty m or ell. 
Dunghills and gardens; annual ; June to September. 
Root much branched; stem spreading; leaves petioled; 
flowers smell like musk. — Leaves applied externally abate 
inflammation ; internally, 1 or 2 grs. infused in boil- 
ing water, and taken at bedtime, occasions a copious per- 
spiration, are diuretic, and generally purge the next day. 
2 . Solanum villosum. Villous nightshade. 
Stem round, villous at top ; leaves ovate, angulate, rather 
villous ; berries yellow. 
Solatium nigrum /3, Huds. FI. Atigl. 93. 
Solanum villosum, Re Cand. FI. Fr. 
Dunghills and cultivated grounds ; annual ; July. 
b. Leaves pinnately cut with an odd lobe ; lobes not cut ; 
racemes corymbose, terminal . 
3 . Solanum tuberosum. Tuberous nightshade . 
Root bearing tubers ; stem herbaceous, not armed ; seg- 
ments of the leaves unequal, alternate ; pedicells jointed ; 
corolla 5 -angular. 
