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5. Chamaesaracha Gray. 
CHAMAESARACHA Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 540. 1876. 
Perennials with entire to pinnatifid leaves, decurrent on the 
petiole; peduncles solitary,or in fascicles of 2-4 from the axils of the 
leaves; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, in fruit somewhat enlarged, 
but not bladdery-inflated, close-fitting to the berry, thin, not 
angled, not ribbed, and faintly if at all veiny, open at the mouth, 
not exceeding the berry; corolla rotate, white or ochroleucous, 
often tinged with purple; limb plicate; stamens inserted near the 
base of the corolla; filaments long and slender; anthers oblong, 
opening by a longitudinal slit; style and stigma as in Physalis. 
Seeds kidney-shaped, flattened, rugose-favose or punctate. 
Chamaesaracha is an exclusively North American genus, con- 
sisting of half a dozen species, all, except one, natives of Mexico 
and southwestern United States. 
I. Plant erect; leaves entire ; seeds punctate ; a low canescent-strigose herb from a 
perennial rootstock. I. C. nana 
II. Plant diffuse; leaves from crenate to pinnatifid ; seeds rugose-favo 
a. Leaves broadly ovate, generally obtuse, crenate; lobes of the ains ond obtuse, 
pubescence puberulent and viscid hirsute; berry 8-10 mm. in diameter. 
La 
A Leaves from obovate-rhombic to linear, subentire to pinnatifid; calyx-lobes triangu- 
lar, generally acute; berry 5-8 mm. in diameter, 
Pubescence dense, puberulent and hirsute. 3. C. conioides. 
Pubescence sparse, puberulent or stellate, hirsute (if at all) only on the calyx. 
. Coronopus. 
I. Wanae: Low and branching, erect, from a perennial rootstock ; cinereous-stri- 
gose with entire leaves; corolla 2 cm. in diameter; calyx-lobes narrow or 
nearly subulate, very short; fruiting calyx hemispherical, not exceeding the berry; 
seeds finely punctate, thin 
I. Chamaesaracha nana Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 540.1876. Syn. Fl. 
2. part 1, 233 1975. 
“reed nana Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 62. 1874. 
Low than 1 dm. high, grayish strigose, neither glan- 
dular nor SE leaves ovate-lanceolate to rhombic, decurrent 
on the long petiole, acute, undulate or entire, thickish ; pedun- 
nearly subulate, from a broad base, very short; corolla white or 
tinged with purple; berry purple (?). 
This rare plant grows in the mountain regions of eastern and 
northern California. 
