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Solanum torvum, Swartz. 
From West India to Peru. A shrubby species with yellow 
spherical berries of good size, which seem also wholesome. 
Other species from tropical America have shown themselves 
sufficiently hardy for inducing us to recommend the test- 
culture of such kinds of plants. Many of them are highly 
curious and ornamental. 
Solanum Uporo, Dunal. 
In many of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. The large 
red spherical berries of this shrub can be used like Tomato. 
Solanum vescum, v. Mueller. 
The Gunyang. South-east Australia. A shrub yielding 
edible berries, Avhich need however to he fully ripe for 
securing absence of deleterious properties. 
Solanum xanthocarpum, Schrad. and Wendl. 
North Africa and South Asia. A perennial herb. The 
berries are of the size of a cherry, and either yellow or 
scarlet. 
Sophora Japonica, L. 
China and Japan. A deciduous tree. The flowers produce 
a yellow or with admixtures a green dye, used for silk. 
Spartina juncea, Willd. 
Salt marshes of North America. A grass with creeping 
roots ; it can be utilized to bind moist sand on the coast. 
A tough fibre can readily be obtained from the leaves. S. 
polystaeliya, W. and S. cynosur aides, W. are stately grasses, 
the former also adapted for saline soil, the latter for fresh- 
water swamps. 
Spartium junceum, L. 
Countries around the Mediterranean Sea. The flowers of 
this bush provide a yellow dye. A textile fibre can be 
separated from the branches. 
Spigelia Marylandica, L- 
North America, north to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. A 
perennial handsome herb, requiring as a vermifuge cautious 
