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3. Chamaesaracha conioides (Moricand) Britton, Mem. Torr. 
Bot. Club, 5: 287. 1895. 
Solanum conioides Moric.; Dunal, in DC. Prod. 13: part 1, 64. 
1852. 
Withania (?) sordida Dunal,in DC. Prod. 13: part 1, 456. 1852, 
Torr. Mex. Bound. 155. 
Solanum Linsecumit Rea in Proc. Acad. Philad. 1862: 6. 
1863. 
Saracha sordida Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 62. 1874. 
Chamaesaracha sordida Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 540. 1876. Syn. Fl. 
2: part I, 232; J. T. Rothrock in Wheeler's Exped. 208, 1878; 
Holzinger in Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 212: Coulter, Cont. U. S. 
Nat. Herb. 2: 299. 
Chamaesaracha Coronopus Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 18: 126, in 
part. 1883. Not Gray. 
Much branched from a perennial base, at first upright, at length 
spreading, cinereous-puberulent with short branched somewhat 
ulate or viscid hairs, generally also viscidly hirsute or villous 
with long and branched hairs, especially on the calyx; leaves ob- 
lanceolate to obovate-rhombic, generally acutish and tapering 
into a short petiole, generally deeply lobed, but varying from sub- 
entire to pinnatifid; calyx-lobes triangular, generally acutish ; 
corolla about I cm. in diameter,* white or ochroleucous, some- 
times violet purplish ; berry from 5-8 cm. in diameter. 
C. conioides grows on dry clayey soil from southern Kansas to 
California and Mexico. The most common form is very hirsute, 
often glandular viscid, but not at all stellate. The leaves are gen- 
erally spatulate or broadly oblanceolate, and more or less lobed. 
To this form may be referred the following specimens: 
Kansas: Gurney, 1891. 
Oklahoma Territory: M. A. Carleton, no. 211, 1891. 
Colorado : C. S. Crandall, 1892. 
Texas: Bigelow, 1851 (Mex. Bound. Surv.); Schott, no. 4-7, 
1851 (Mex. Bound. Surv.); 1852; Thurber, no. 185, 1851; G. R. 
Vasey, 1881; J. Reverchon, no. 67b, 1882; M. E. Jones, no. 
* Specimens collected by Edw. Palmer (no. 921 and 922, 1880) in Mexico,have 
flowers 2-214 cm. in diameter. These are more robust and have also larger leaves, 
more decidedly rhombic in outline and lobed only above the middle, resembling the 
more entire leaves of Verbena officinalis. It may be distinct,but the material seen is 
insufficient. 
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