An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . mpound, lat-eral ; pedicels slender, articulated at the base,spreading or drooping; flowers blue, purple orwhite, 5-7 broad; caljx-lobes short, oblong,obtuse, persistent at the base of the berry; corolladeeply 5-cleft, its lobes triangular-lanceolate, acu-minate; berry oval or globose, red. In waste places or in moist thickets, sometimesappearing as if indigenous, Nova Scotia
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . mpound, lat-eral ; pedicels slender, articulated at the base,spreading or drooping; flowers blue, purple orwhite, 5-7 broad; caljx-lobes short, oblong,obtuse, persistent at the base of the berry; corolladeeply 5-cleft, its lobes triangular-lanceolate, acu-minate; berry oval or globose, red. In waste places or in moist thickets, sometimesappearing as if indigenous, Nova Scotia to Minne-sota, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania andKansas. May-Scpt. Woody nightshade. Poison-flower. Poison- or snake-berry. Scarlet berry. Natu-ralized from Europe. Native also of Asia. Solanum triquetrum Cav., a Texan and Mexican nearly glabrous herb, scarcely climbing, withsomewhat ridged stems, 3-lobed deltoid-cordate or hastate leaves, lateral few-flowered cymes andglobose red berries, is reported from Kansas. Solanum Melongena L., the egg-plant, with blue or purplish flowers, and an ovoid or obovoidberry up to 6 long, is occasionally found in waste grounds. It is native of Asia,species: Lycium afrum 7. LYCOPERSICON Mill. Card. Did. Al)r. Ed. 4. 1754. Annual, or rarely perennial, coarse branching or feebly climbing herbs, with 1-2-pinnatelydivided leaves, and lateral irregular raceme-like cymes of small yellowish flowers oppositethe leaves. Calyx 5-parted, or rarely 6-parted, the segments linear or lanceolate. Corollarotate, the tube very short, the limb 5-cleft or rarely 6-cleft. plicate. Stamens 5 (rarely 6),inserted on the throat of the corolla; filaments very short; anthers elongated, connate orconnivent, introrsely longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-3-cellcd; style simple; stigma small,capitate. Berry in the wild plants globose or pyriform, much modified in cultivation, thecalyx persistent at its base. [Greek, wolf-peach.] About 4 species, natives of North Ame
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