5. S. Torrèyi, Gray. Cinereous with a somewhat close pubescence of about equally 9–12-rayed hairs; prickles small and stout, scanty or nearly wanting; leaves ovate with truncate or slightly cordate base, sinuately 5–7-lobed (4–6´ long); calyx-lobes short-ovate, abruptly long-acuminate; berry 1´ in diameter.—Prairies, etc., E. Kan. and Tex.
[+][+] Annual; fruit closely covered; lowest anther much the longest, corolla yellow.
6. S. rostràtum, Dunal. Very prickly, somewhat hoary or yellowish with a copious wholly stellate pubescence (1–2° high); leaves 1–2-pinnatifid; calyx densely prickly; stamens and style much declined.—Plains of Neb. to Tex.; spreading eastward to Ill. and Tenn.
2. CHAMÆSÁRACHA, Gray.
Calyx herbaceous, closely investing the globose berry (or most of it), obscurely if at all veiny. Corolla rotate, 5-angulate, plicate in the bud. Filaments filiform; anthers separate, oblong.—Perennials, with mostly narrow entire or pinnatifid leaves tapering into margined petioles, and filiform naked pedicels solitary in the axils, refracted or recurved in fruit. (Saracha is a tropical American genus dedicated to Isidore Saracha, a Spanish Benedictine; the prefix χαμαί, on the ground.)
1. C. sórdida, Gray. Much branched from root or base, somewhat cinereous with short viscid pubescence; leaves obovate-spatulate or cuneate-oblong to oblanceolate, repand to incisely pinnatifid; calyx when young villous-viscid; corolla pale yellow or violet-purple (6´´ broad); berry as large as a pea.—Dry or clayey soil, central and W. Kan. to Tex. and Arizona.
3. PHÝSALIS, L. Ground Cherry.
Calyx 5-cleft, reticulated and enlarging after flowering, at length much inflated and enclosing the 2-celled globular (edible) berry. Corolla between wheel-shaped and funnel-form, the very short tube marked with 5 concave spots at the base; the plaited border somewhat 5-lobed or barely 5–10-toothed. Stamens 5, erect; anthers separate, opening lengthwise.—Herbs (in this country), with the leaves often unequally in pairs, and the 1-flowered nodding peduncles extra-axillary; flowering through the summer. (Name φυσαλίς, a bladder, from the inflated calyx.)
[*] Corolla large, white or tinged with blue, without dark centre, with almost entire border; pubescence simple.
1. P. grandiflòra, Hook. Clammy-pubescent, erect; leaves lance-ovate, pointed, entire or nearly so; corolla 1–2´ wide when expanded, and with a woolly ring in the throat; fruiting calyx globular, apparently nearly filled by the berry.—S. shore of L. Superior to Sask.; Providence Island, L. Champlain (Perkins).