640 SOLANACE.E. Capslain>. 



■wise as Solanum. — IloiLs or shrubs, natives of the warm parts of America, green 

 und mostly glabrous; wilii many-times forking stems, ovutu und entire or barely 

 reliant! thinnish leaves, and small llowers on solitary or cymoso-clustered pedicels. 

 Corolla mostly white and the anthers bluish. 



C!Ai'sieuM AN.Niui.M, l.iiiii., iH the Cayciuio Tepper, or Chile Colorado of the Mexicuiis, with 

 laigo iiiul long pud-like I'luit, ol' very warm ana pungent acridity. 



1. C. baccatum, Linn. Shrubby, a foot or two high, Avith slender diverging 

 branches : leaves ovate, slcnder-petiuled : berry globular, as large as a j)ea, on a 

 blender erect peduncle. 



Wild along the Mexican fioiititir, and in Arizona, probably within the borders of the Stale, the 

 form called C. micrujihylluni Ijy Dunal in DC. l*rodr. 



4. CHAM^SARACHA, Gray. 

 (Jalyx 5dobed, enlarging after llowering, but remaining rather lierbaceous, not 

 reticulated, incomjiletely investing the rather dry-gl(d)ose berry. Corolla rotate, 

 fi-angnlate. Antliei-s short, on slender (not at all connivcnt) lilaments ; the cells 

 opening lengthwise throughout. — Low jierennial (Texano-Calilbrnian) herbs; with 

 the corolla of S<imclni and a calyx between that of l^dautim un<l J'/ii/sdlin, with 

 rather narrow leaves tapming into margineil petioles, and in their axils liliform 

 solitary or sometimes geminate i)edicels, which are mostly refracted or recurved in 

 fruit. Corolla white, yellowish, or tinged with violet. — Benth. & Hook. Gen. VI. 

 ii. 89L Saracha § C/iaincesaracha, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 62. 



L C. CoronopuB, Gray. Diffusely much branched, green, almost glabrous, or 

 beset with some short and rougJush hairs, a span high ; leaves lanceolate or lini-ar 

 with cuneate-attenuato base, varying from almost entire to laciniate-pinnatiiid : 

 calyx somewhat scurfy hirsute with 2-forked hairs : corolla yellowish, half an inch 

 or less in diameter : berry nearly wdiite : seeds thickish, rugose and favose. — Sa/a- 

 nnm Coroywjms, Dunal in I)C. Prodr. xiii. G4. WUhania (1) Coronopus, Torr. JJot. 

 ^lex. Bound. L'iS. Saracha {Ckavia saracha) Cororxqms, Gray, 1. c. Saracha 

 acutifoiia, Miers in Ann. ik, JNLag. JS'at. liist. 1849] (but the flowers too small). 



Aii/ona (Pulmcr) and S. IJtali {Capt. Bishop) to Texas and Colorado. Not met with in Cali- 

 fornia, unless it be Snmcha acntifolia of Miers, and it is probable Coulter's specimen on which 

 that was founded came from Arizona. The more eastern and broader-leaved specimens are near 

 to C tiunUdd, which is jaibcscent and glandular. 



2. C. nana, Gray. Many-stemmed from slender creeping rootstocks, barely a 

 span high, cinereous-))uberulent, comparatively largo-leaved : leaves crowiled, ob- 

 long-ovate aiKl ovate-lanceolate, entire or undulate (the blade an inch or two long, 

 and at base contracted into a petiole of equal length) : peduncles mostly shorter 

 than the petiole : corolla white or bluish, 7 to 9 lines in diameter : fruiting calyx 

 hemispherical and with distant subulate teeth : seeds flat, smoothish. — Saracha 

 nana, Gray, 1. c. 



Eastern jjart of the Siena Ncvmhi in Nevada and Sierra counties, Kdlufjg or Bolundcr, Lan- 

 viOH. Connects with Physali.', ihrough P. (jniiidijlora. 



5. PHYSALIS, Linn. GuouNn Ciikuuv. 

 Calyx 5-lobed, enlarging after flowering and becoming membranaceous and veiny, 

 forming a loose bladdery envelope enclosing the 2-eelled juicy berry. Corolla rotate 

 or commonly with an open-campanulato ))ase, 5-angulate or obscurely lobed. An- 

 thers oblong or linear, not connivent, on short or slender filaments ; the cells open- 

 ing lengthwise throughout. — Herbs, widely distributed over the world, mainly in 



