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pinnatifid; umbels terminal, large, rayed; involucres many-leaved. 2-4 £ 
The leaves that grow in water are bipinnatifid. Swamps. 
linea're , leafetslinear, lanceolate, acutely and finely serrate; stem tall. 
SJWILAX. 20—6. (Asparagi.} [From smileus , lo cut; so called from the roughness of its 
leaves and stalk.] 
rotund if o'Ha, (green brier, w-g. Ju. 7]..) stem prickly, sub-terete; leaves un¬ 
armed, roundish-ovate, short-acuminate, cordate, 5-7 nerved : berries sphe¬ 
rical. 
SOLAlNUM. 5—1. (Solanece.) [From solor, comfort, because some species give ease by their 
narcotic quality.] 
dulcama'ra , (bitter-sweet, p-b. Ju. h>.) stem unarmed, woody, climbing; lower 
leaves mostly cordate, glabrous, upper ones mostly guitar-hastate; few flow¬ 
ered ; corymbs opposite to the leaves. This is the true bitter-sweet; though 
the Celastrus scandens is called so by some. Damp. 
ni'grum , (deadly night-shade, w-p-b. J. <v>.) stem unarmed, ereetish or erect; 
branches angled, dentate; leaves ovate, repand, glabrous; racemes 2-ranked, 
nodding. 1-2 f. Ex. 
tuber o'sum, (potato, b-w. Ju. T?.) stem wing-angled, unarmed ; leaves inter¬ 
ruptedly pinnate; leafets entire; flowers sub-corymbed; roots knobbed, tu¬ 
berous. Cultivated. 
ly coper" sicum , (love-apple, tomato, y. S. ©.) stem unarmed ; leaves pinnati¬ 
fid,. gashed; racemes 2-parted, leafless; fruit glabrous, torulose. Ex. 
pseudo-capsi'cum, (Jerusalem cherry, k>.) stem w r oody; leaves lanceolate, re¬ 
pand ; umbels sessile. Ex. 
SOLE A. 5—1. (Cisti.) 
con"color , (Ap. w-y. 9J-.) stem simple, erect; leaves wedge-form, lanceolate, 
sessile, irregularly toothed above; peduncles short, 2-3-fiowered ; calyx 
nearly as long as the petals ; spur none. 2-4 f. Rocks. Green violet. 
SOLIDAGO. 17—2. ( Corymbifercc .) [From solido, to make firm, from its supposed virtue in 
healing wounds.] 
A. Flowers one-sided; leaves with three combined nerves , 
canaden'sis, (Canadian golden-rod, y. Ju. QJ..) stem downy; leaves lanceolate, 
serrate, rough; racemes panicled, recurved; rays hardly longer than the 
disk ; stem angular ; leaves sessile, three inches long, sometimes nearly 
entire, 2-5 f. 
gigan"tea, (giant golden-rod, y. Au. Tj..) stem erect, glabrous; leaves lanceolate, 
smooth, serrate, rough-edged, obscurely 3-nerved ; racemes panicled; pe¬ 
duncles rough-haired ; rays short. 4-7 f. 
lateriflo'ra , (side-flowered golden-rod,"y. Au. 7f.) stem erect, a little hairy; 
leaves lanceolate, slightly 3-nerved, glabrous, rough-edged ; lower ones sub- 
serrate ; racemes panicled, a little recurved, sub-secund ; flowers large, the 
rays being much longer than the calyx ; stem striated, often purplish, pin¬ 
natifid, with numerous lateral flowering branches. 2-3 f. 
B. Racemes or flowers one-sided ; leaves veiny . 
altitis ll simo J , (variable golden rod, y. Au. 7J..) stem erect, rough-haired ; leaves 
Lanceolate; lower ones deeply serrate, scabrous, rugose. The panicled ra¬ 
cemes are very numerous, and spread every way, so as to bring the one¬ 
sided flowers upwards; rays half as long as the calyx ; theserratures of the 
leaves are equal and unequal; it is hairy or villose ; and sometimes the ra¬ 
cemes diverge but little. 3-6 f. 
paf'ula, (spread golden-rod, y. S. %.) stem erect, glabrous; leaves oval, ser¬ 
rate, glabrous; radical ones oblong-spatulate; racemes panicled, spread¬ 
ing; peduncles pubescent. Stem w'and-like, angular, and striate; stem- 
leaves sessile, about an inch long, pointed ; the radical ones resemble those 
of the ox-eyed daisy; racemes about an inch long; flowers rather large. 2 f. 
C. Racemes erect. 
bi-color , (white golden-rod, w. Au. r 2f.) stem hairy ; leaves oval, hairy; lower 
ones serrate ; those on the flower branches entire, numerous, and small; 
scale and calyx obtuse ; racemes are short and compact; rays white, some- 
what numerous and shortish ; disk florets rather numerous. 2-4 f. 
SONCHUS. 17—1. ( Corymbifera .) 
dera'cenS) (sow-thistle, y. Ju. ©.) leaves lance-oblong, clasping, slightly tooth- 
