Fig 164.[Beaked Nightshade. Solanum rostratum] Dunal.

Beaked Nightshade. Solanum rostratum Dunal. Fruit surrounded by a persistent prickly calyx about 2 cm. long; seeds flattened, irregularly undulate or wrinkled, dark brown or black, usually ovate or circular in outline, 2–2.5 mm. in diameter, surface covered with small pits. Introduced into Michigan from the southwest. A coarse prickly weed.


FIGWORT FAMILY. SCROPHULARIACEAE.

Fig 165. [Butter and Eggs. Toad-Flax. Linaria vulgaris] Hill. Linaria Linaria (L.) Karst.

Butter and Eggs. Toad-Flax. Linaria vulgaris Hill. Linaria Linaria (L.) Karst. Flowers yellow and orange; seeds dark brown or black, flat, circular or oval, surrounded by a broad wing-margin, the wing notched and covered by numerous fine radiating ridges, the surface of the seed roughened by numerous projecting points, seed, including its wing, 1.5–2 mm. long. Introduced from Europe. A vigorous weed in meadows, spreading by seeds and by root stocks.


Fig 166. [Moth Mullein. Verbascum Blattaria] L.