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ealyx-lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute. Lucas county, 
(a waif.) 
2. Solanum carolinense L. Horse-nettle. Stellate-pubes¬ 
cent with 4 to 8 rayed hairs, erect, branched, prickly. Leaves 
oblong or ovate, repand, lobed or pinnatifid; flowers cymose- 
racemose with pedicels recurved in fruit; petals ovate-lanceolate, 
acute; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, about half the length of 
the corolla, persistent at the base of the berry; berries orange-yel¬ 
low, glabrous. General. 
3. Solanum tuberosum L. Potato. Plant erect, finely 
pubescent. Leaves pinnate, made up of several ovate leaflets 
and some minute ones inter-mixed; flowers blue or white, arranged 
in cymes; sepals about half the length of the petals; berries round, 
green. Franklin, Ottawa, Erie, Tuskarawas, Hocking, Monroe. 
4. Solanum dulcamara L. Bitter-sweet. Perennial; stem 
climbing, somewhat woody below. Leaves ovate cr hastate; 
petioled, acute or acuminate, entire, 3-lobed, or 3-divided with the 
terminal segment the largest; flowers blue, purple or white in 
compound lateral cymes; corolla 5-lobed, petals triangular-lanceo¬ 
late, sepals short, oblong, obtuse, persistent at the base of the berry; 
berry oval or globose, red. General in northern Ohio as far south 
as Clark, Licking and Jefferson counties; also in Meigs county. 
5. Solanum nigrum L. Black Nightshade. Annual, glab¬ 
rous or slightly pubescent, about 15 inches high. Leaves ovate, 
petioled, more or less inequilateral, acute, acuminate at the apex; 
flowers broad, 3 to 10 on an umbel; calyx-lobes much shorter than 
the corolla, persistent at the base of the berry; berries glabrous, 
globose. General and abundant. 
6. Solanum rostratum Dun. Buffalo-bur. Densely pubes¬ 
cent with 5 to 8 rayed hairs and covered with yellow subulate 
prickles. Leaves ovate or oval in outline, irregularly pinnately 
5 to 7 lobed or 1 to 2 pinnatifid; flowers in lateral racemes; pedi¬ 
cels erect both in flower and fruit; calyx densely prickly, entirely 
covering the berry. Franklin, Marion, Ottawa, Cuyahoga, Sum¬ 
mit, Lake. From the west. 
Lycopersicon Mill. 
Annual, or rarely perennial, coarse herbs with 1 to 2 pinnately 
divided leaves and flowers in lateral irregular racemose cymes 
opposite the leaves. Corolla rotate, the tube short, the limb 5- 
cleft rarely 6-cleft, plicate; calyx 5-parted rarely 6-parted. 
1. Lycopersicon lycopersicon (L). Karst. Tomato. Viscid- 
pubescent, much branched, one to several feet high. Leaves 
petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute, dentate, lobed or 
again divided with several or numerous small leaflets, sepals about 
equalling the petals. Rather general as an escape. 
Date of Publication, January 23, 1914. 
