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“Introduced in Nashville and vicinity, and spreading,” (A. 
Gattinger, The Tennessee FL, with Special Reference to the 
Flora of Nashville, Phsenogains and Vascular Cryptogams, 
1887, p. 67.) Nashville, July, 1877, (A. Gattinger.) Tipton- 
ville, sandy fields near the Mississippi, June 26, 1893,) S. M. 
Bain.) Lake county, abundant, (S. M. Bain.) 
Texas. — Lindheimer, 1886, No. 400; Gillespie county. No. 
451, (G. Jermy). Plains throughout Texas, (Coulter, Manual 
of the Phanerogams and P teridophy tes of Western Texas. Contr . 
U. S. Nat. Herb.,Vol. II, No. 2, p 290.) Denison, “I have known 
it here for eighteen years,” (T. V. Munson.) Expedition from 
Western Texas, to El Paso, Oct., 1849, (Charles Wright.) Guad- 
aloupe, clayey soil, margin of thickets. Sept. 1854. Western 
Texas, Red River to Rio Grande, (Torrey and Gray, Pacific R. 
R. Report, Vol. II, 1854, p. 172.) Southwest, 1880, No. 941, 
(Palmer.) Ennis, “I have known it about twenty years,” 
(Hogan.) Brazos, 1848-9, Brazos county, (Pammel.) Dickinson, 
(Fred Mally.) Western Texas, (Torrey and Gray, Pacific R. R. 
Report, Botany, Red River to Rio Grande, Vol. II, p. 172.) On 
Rio Grande, 1888, (A. C. Lemmon.) Bexar, 1828, Austin, Dallas, 
Hempstead, Melissa, Calvert, San Marcos, Sherman, McKinney, 
Paris, Corsicanna, College Station, Clay Station, Brenham, Bid- 
dings, Manor. Abundant at all these points in 1887 and 1888. 
(Pammel.) El Paso, 1888, (G. R. Vasey.) 
Wisconsin. — Watertown, 1887, (Pammel.) 
SODOM APPLE, HORSE NETTLE, SAND BRIER, BULL NETTLE. 
Solarium Garolinense L. 
A deep-rooting perennial, from one to two feet high, pro- 
pagating freely by its underground rootstocks, which are from 
one to three feet long; stems hirsute or roughish pubescent 
with 4-8 rayed hairs, stout subulate yellowish prickles, usually 
numerous; leaves oblong or sometimes ovate, obtusely sinuate 
toothed or lobed or sinuate pinnatifid. The few to several flow- 
ered racemes simple becoming lateral; lobes of calyx acumin- 
ate. Corolla light blue or white, an inch or less in diameter. 
The yellow globose berries half an inch in diameter. 
The record of Sand Brier or Horse Nettle forms an interest- 
ing chapter in the migration of perennial plants from one part 
of the country to another. It is much easier for an annual to 
became acclimated than a perennial. Throughout the Missis- 
sippi valley there are tropical plants which have become 
