. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1680 SOLANUM SOLANUM more or less hairy: Ivs. ovate, sinuate or lobed, woolly beneath, usually prickly: lis. blue, 1 in. or less across, triangular-lobed: berry globular, about % in. in diam., smooth, yellow. Tropical India, and in China and the Philippines. —Offered by Franceschi, S. Calif., who de- scribes th
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1680 SOLANUM SOLANUM more or less hairy: Ivs. ovate, sinuate or lobed, woolly beneath, usually prickly: lis. blue, 1 in. or less across, triangular-lobed: berry globular, about % in. in diam., smooth, yellow. Tropical India, and in China and the Philippines. —Offered by Franceschi, S. Calif., who de- scribes the lis. as white. Variable. 15. T6rreyi, Gray. Strong perennial herb, with close ffrayish pubescence and scattering weak prickles: Ivs. ovate, with subcordate or truncate base, with 5-7 sinuate lobes, the midrib prickly beneath: lis. few in the cymes, nodding, 2 in. across, pale blue, deeply pointed-lobed, handsome: berry 1 in. in diam., globular, smooth, yel- low. Kans. to Tex. 6461. 16. pyracanthum, Jacq. Small shrub, somewhat hairy, thickly beset with ferocious orange spines: Ivs. long and relatively narrow, pinnately irregularly lobed: fls. blue, with radiating white ribs, deeply lobed, about 1 in. across, drooping in small clusters: fr. globose, M in. or less in diam. Trop. Afr. 2547. 23:2411. EE. Fls. mainly white. 17. marginatum, Linn. f. Shrubby, 3-5 ft. tall, white- tomentose, bearing many straight but not very large prickles: Ivs. mostly ovate in outline, subcordate, shal- low-lobed or angled, at some stages with an irregular white band along the margin due to the shedding of the tomentum on the body of the leaf (whence the name marginatum): lis. large, 1 in. or more across, white with blue veins or ribs, shallow-lol>ed, in few-lid. clus- ters, the calyx prickly: fr. 1 in. or more in diam., glo- bose or ovoid, drooping, pricklv, vellow. Trop. Afr. 1928. 18. robiistum, H. Wendl. Vigorous herb or subshrub, 3-5 ft., densely tomentose, jjrickly on
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