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aesaracha. Much-branched from a perennial base, cinereous-pu- 
berulent with short-branched, somewhat glutinous or viscid hairs. 
Leaves oblanceolate to obovate-rhombic, generally deeply-lobed, but 
varying from sub-entire to pinnatifid. Corolla about 6" in diameter, 
white, cream-colored or sometimes violet-purplish. 
In dry clayey soil. May-September. 
2. Chamaesaraclia Coronopus (Dunal) A. Gray. Smoothish 
Chamaesaracha. Branched and diffuse from a perennial base. Stem 
obtusely angled. Pubescence stellate, often scarcely any. Leaves 
linear or lanceolate, more or less sinuately-lobed, sometimes pinnat¬ 
ifid. Corolla white to yellowish-white, the appendages of the throat 
often protuberant. Berry 2% "-4" in diameter, nearly white. 
In clayey soil. May-September. 
IV. SOLANUM (Tourn.) L. 
Annual or perennial, often prickly herbs, rarely vines. 
Leaves alternate, entire, toothed or pinnatifid. Flowers 
perfect, regular, in cymes, racemes, umbels, or panicles. 
Calyx from campanulate to rotate, 5-lobed. Corolla various¬ 
ly colored, rotate, 5-angled or 5-lobed, plicate. Stamens 
5, adnate to throat of the corolla. Anthers narrow, con¬ 
verging or united into a cone, sacs opening by terminal 
pores. Ovary mostly 2-celled. Fruit a berry, seated in the 
calyx. Seeds flattened. 
Glabrous or pubescent herbs, not prickly. 
Plants green, pubescence simple, or some of it stel¬ 
late; flowers white. 
Leaves repand or entire; ripe berries black. , 
1. S. nigrum. 
Leaves deeply pinnatifid; ripe berries green. 
2. S. triflorum. 
Plant silvery stellate-canescent; flowers violet. 
4. S. elaeagnifolium. 
Stellate-pubescent and prickly herbs. 
Berry not enclosed by the calyx; perennials. 
Hirsute; leaves ovate or oblong, sinuate or pinnati¬ 
fid. 3. S. carolinense. 
Densely silvery-canescent; leaves linear or oblong, 
repand or entire. 4. S. elaeagni folium. 
