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3. CAPSICUM Tourn. (CAYENNE PEPPER.) 
Herbs or shrubs, with ovate and entire or merely repand thin and 
ustaully acuminate leaves, small solitary or cymose flowers on slender 
pedicels, short truncate or merely toothed calyx, rotate deeply cleft 
usually white corolla, bluish unconnected anthers longitudinally dehis- 
cent, and red or yellowish very pungent berries. 
1. C. baccatum L. (Birp peprrR.) Shrubby, 3 to 6 dm. high, with slender 
divergent branches: leaves slender-petioled: calyx more or less toothed in flower, 
truncate in fruit: berry elliptical-globular or globose: peduncles in fruit erect,— 
Sparsely found in southern and southwestern Texas. The “chiltapin” of the Mexi- 
cans, who prize its exceedingly pungent berries as condiment. (Havard), 
4. CHAMAISARACHA Gray. 
Perennials, with mostly narrow entire or pinnatifid leaves  taper- 
ing into margined petioles, filiform naked pedicels solitary in the axils 
and refracted or recurved in fruit, herbaceous calyx closely investing 
the globose berry (or most of it) and obscurely if at all veiny, rotate 
d-angulate corolla, and filiform filaments with separate oblong anthers. 
1. C. Coronopus Gray. Green, almost glabrous, or beset with some short and 
roughish hairs, diffusely very much branched: leaves lanceolate or linear with 
euneate-attenuate base, varying from nearly entire to laciniate-pinnatifid: pedun- 
cles elongated: calyx more or less hirsute (hairs often 2-forked at tip): corolla 
yellowish. (Withania? Coronopus Torr, Mex. Bound,)—Clayey soil, southern and 
western Texas. 
2. C. sordida Gray. Much branched from root or base, somewhat cinereous with 
short viscid pubescence: leaves obovate-spatulate or cuneate-oblong to oblanceolate, 
repand to incisely pinnatifid: calyx when young villous-viscid: corolla pale yellow 
orviolet-purple. (Withania? sordida Torr. Mex. Bound. )—Dry or clayey soil, through- 
out Texas. 
5. PHYSALIS L. (GROUND cHERRY.; 
Herbs, with leaves often unequally in pairs, 1-flowered nodding extra- 
axillary peduncles, 5-cleft calyx reticulated and enlarging after flower- 
ing at length much inflated and inclosing the 2-celled globular (edible) 
berry, rotate-funnelform corolla with the very short tube marked with 
5 concave spots at base, and 5 erect stamens with separate longitu- 
dinally dehiscent anthers. 
* Young parts sparsely (or stalks and calyx densely) scurfy-granuliferous, otherwise quite 
glabrous: some leaves sinuate-pinnatifid: corolla flat-rotate. 
1. P. lobata Torr. Low and small, diffusely branched: leaves oblong-spatulate or 
obovate, from repand to sinuate-pinnatifid, the base cuneately tapering into a mar- 
gined petiole: pedicels commonly in pairs: corolla violet, 12 to 18 mm. in diameter, 
the center with a 5 or 6-rayed white-woolly star: globular-inflated fruiting calyx 
strongly 5-angled.—Plains of southern and western Texas. 
* * Not granulose-scurfy: leaves never pinnatifid: corolla rotately spreading from some- 
what campaniulate throat or base. 
+ Corolla pure white, wholly destitute of any dark center, tomentose at throat, widely rotate 
with almost entire border: pubescence simple. 
2, P. Wrightii Gray, Annual, widely branched, nearly glabrous: leaves oblong 
or lanceolate-oblong, sinuate-toothed or repand, acute at base, about 2.5 em. long: 
