PL ex. cor. 
26. SOLANEiE. 89- Solarium. 
333 
Solanum tuberosum esculentum, Rail Syn. 265, 3. 
Battata Virginiana, sive Virginianorum, et Pappus, Ger. em. 927. 
Pappas, seu Battatas Yirginianorum, Park. Par. 517,3. 
Solanum tuberosum, Lin. S. P. 285. 
Lyeopersicon tuberosum, Miller Diet. 
Battatas. Virginia potatoes. Potatoes. 
Cultivated, naturalized from Peru; peren.; June, July. 
Root tuberous, abounding in starch, nutritive, yielding 
far more food on an acre than any other plant, hence the 
cultivation of it spreads rapidly over the globe ; tulers 
nearly cylindrical ; skin white ; leaves dark green ; corolla 
white. 
@. rulrum . Tulers large, nearly cylindrical ; skin red ; 
leaves dark green ; corolla reddish, variegated. 
y. album. Tubers oblong; skin red; leaves dark green ; 
corolla whitish. 
& variegatum . Tubers roundish ; skin yellowish ; leaves 
crisp ; corolla variegated. 
s. violaceum. Tubers first round, growing rather cylin- 
drical ; skin mottled with yellow and red ; corolla violet. 
VIII. 90. LYCOPERSICON. Anguillara. Love-apple. 
Calyx 5 to 20-parted ; corolla 5 to 20-cut ; anthers poly- 
adelphious, conical, tip lengthened by a membrane opening 
lengthways ; style broad, nearly simple ; stigmata many ; 
ovary many-celled; berry bunched, broad, fleshy; seeds 
vilious. — Leaves pinnately-cut with an odd lobe; pedicell 
jointed under the flower ; corolla yellow. 
Lyeopersicon esculentum. Eatable love-apple. 
Stem hairy, hairs diverging; leaves irregularly pinnately- 
cut ; segments incised, beneath glaucous. 
Poma amoris, Ger. em. 346. 
Pomum amoris majus, Park. 353. 
Solanum Lyeopersicon, Lin. S. P. 185. 
Lyeopersicon Pomum amoris, Moench. Moeth. 515. 
Gold apples. Tomatoes. 
Dunghills, and cultivated as a potherb ; annual; June. 
Panicles internodial; fruit shining. — Fruit boiled in 
soups ; pulp of the fruit boiled with salt and spices used as 
a sauce. 
