Vol. III.] 



POTATO FAMILY. 



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I. Leucophysalis grandiflora (Hook.) Rydberg. L,arge White-flowered 

 Ground-Cherry. (Fig. 3208.) 



Phvsalis grandijlora Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 



90. 1834. 

 Leucophysalis grandiflora Rydberg, Mem. 



Torr. Club, 4: 366. 1896. 



Erect, tall, l'2°-3° liigli; stem some- 

 what angled, striate, more or less villous. 

 Leaves large, 4'-S' long, ovate to lanceo- 

 late-ovate, generall}' acute and entire, 

 somewhat decurrent on the petiole, more 

 or less villous and viscid, especially on the 

 veins of the lower surface; peduncles sev- 

 eral from each axil, short, '-'-./-^j' long, 

 villous; calyx villous; lobes lanceolate, 

 equalling the tube; corolla large, i '4"- 

 Ij^^' in diameter, rotate, white with a 

 more or less yello'svish center; filaments 

 slender; anthers short, yellow, often 

 tinged with purple; fruiting calyx ovoid, 

 early filled by the berry. 



Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence val- 

 ley to Saskatcliewan and Minnesota; accord- 

 ing; to Gray, ' ' springing up in new clearings. " 

 May-July. 



5. CHAMAESARACHA A. Gray, Bot. Cal. i: 540. 1876. 



Perennials, with entire to pinnatifid leaves, the blade decurrent on the petiole. Pedun- 

 cles solitary, or in fascicles of 2-4 in the axils. Calyx campanulate, 5 lobed, in fruit some- 

 what enlarged, but not bladdery-inflated, close-fitting to the berrj', thin, not angled nor 

 ribbed, and faintly if at all veiny, open at the mouth, not exceeding the berry. Corolla 

 rotate, white or cream-colored, often tinged with purple, the limb plicate. Stamens inserted 

 near the base of the corolla; filaments long and slender; anthers oblong, opening by longitu- 

 dinal slits; style and stigma as in Physalis. Seeds kidne)- -shaped, flattened, rugose-favose 

 or punctate. [Ground-^aracZ/rt, the latter a genus named in honor of Isidore Saracha, a 

 Spanish Benedictine botanist.] 



An American geuus, consisting of half a dozen species, natives of Mexico and the southwest- 

 ern United States. 



Pubescence dense, puberulent and hirsute. i. C. conioides. 



Pubescence sparse, puberulent or stellate, hirsute (if at all) only on the calyx. 2. C. Coronopus. 



I. Chamaesaracha conioides (Moricand) 

 Britten. Hairy Chamaesaracha. (Fig. 3209.) 



Solanum conioides Moric. ; Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13: Part 



I, 64. 1852. 

 Chamaesaracha sordida A. Gray, Bot. Cal. i: 540. 1876. 

 Chamaesaracha conioides Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 



287 



1895. 



Much branched from a perennial base, at first up- 

 right, at length spreading, cinereous-puberulent with 

 short branched somewhat glutinous or viscid hairs, 

 generally also viscidly hirsute or villous with long and 

 branched hairs, especially on the calyx; leaves ob- 

 lanceolate to obovate-rhombic, usually acutish and 

 tapering into a short petiole, generally deeply lobed, 

 but varying from subentire to pinnatifid; calyx lobes 

 triangular, generally acutish; corolla about y'z' in 

 diameter, white or ochroleucous, or sometimes violet- 

 purplish; berry 2>^"-4" in diameter. 



In dry clayey soil, southern Kansas to California and 

 Mexico. May-Sept. 



