712 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
MEXICO TO BRAZIL, ARGENTINA. 
Louisianian areca, Seashore from Virginia to Florida, west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry gravelly banks of Mobile River, Mobile and Ohio 
Railroad wharf, To all appearance adventive with ballast. Observed from 1890 
up to 1897, when the locality was covered with buildings. Flowers pale yellow, 
with a brownish center; June to October. Berries clammy yellow. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Virginia, Bonaria.” 
Herb. Mohr. 
Physalis viscosa maritima (Curtis) Rydberg, Mem. Torr. Club, 4:357. 1897. 
SEASIDE STELLATE GROUND CHERRY. 
Physalis maritima Curtis, Am. Journ. Sci. ser. 2,'7:407. 1849. 
P. viscosa spathulaefolia Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1: 236. 187%. 
Gray, l.c. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 301. 
Louisianian area, North Carolina to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Sands on the seashore. Baldwin County, eastern 
shore Mobile Bay near Point Clear, July, 1881; very rare. Collected also at Spring- 
hill near the hotel, in sandy pine uplands, more than 30 miles distant from the sen- 
shore, August 8, 1897. Perennial. 
Our specimens agree perfectly with the type duplicate of Curtis from the Riddel- 
lian herb. in Herb. Mohr, Readily distinguished by the closer and denser pubes- 
cenceand the oblong spathulate leaves gradually tapering into the petiole, of a firmer 
texture. Peduncles about 1 inch long, like the calyx more densely pubescent than 
in the type; corolla larger, } to } inch wide. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘* Sandy seashore of North Carolina, and occasionally a few miles 
in the interior.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Physalis fuscomaculata le Rouville; Dunal, in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 1:487. 1852, 
SoutTH AMERICA. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast, Mobile County. Corolla dingy yellow with dark 
spot in the center; anthers yellow. 
Perennial from a stout simple rootstock, decumbent or ascending. Stems terete 
with decurrent ridges, a little pruinose stellate-pubescent; leaves 2 to 3 inches long, 
1 to 1} inches wide, ovate, entire or repand, somewhat oblique at the base, the upper 
often opposite; petioles } to 1 inch long; peduncles as long as or longer than the 
petioles; calyx pruinose on the margins, stellate-ciliate; lobes triangular, shorter 
than the tube (Rydberg). 
Varies greatly in size and form of the leaves, which on vigorous stems are 3 to 4 
inches long and fully 2 inches wide, obtusely repand or sinuate dentate, sparsely 
pruinose by the very short stellate hairs, Easily distinguished by the dark green 
color of the leaves, the pubescence, and the low branching habit from P. viscosa. 
This interesting waif from the La Plata River country associated with Verbena 
bonariensis, from the same region, has held its own, confined to a single spot, for the 
past dozen years without spreading. 
Type locality: FE Buenos Ayres? cum lanis allata ad portem Juvenalem prope 
montem Pessulanum legit cl. Touchy.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Physalis angustifolia Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 113. 1834. 
NARROW-LEAF SEASIDE GROUND CHERRY, 
Gray, Syn. Fl, N. A. 2, pt.1:236. Chap. F1. 350, 
Louisianian area. Seashore of Florida to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sand, shores of Mobile Bay and the Gulf. 
Flowers May, June; corolla yellow, purplish in the center, anthers yellow, Fruit 
ripe July, August; berries deep orange. the creeping base of the stems deeply buried 
in the sand. Perennial. 
Type locality: “ West Florida, probably on the sandy coast, N. A, Ware, isq.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
SOLANUM L. Sp. P1.1:184. 1753. 
About 900 species, herbaceous and woody perennials and annuals of warmer tem- 
perate and tropical regions. 
Solanum nigrum L, Sp. Pl.1:186, 1753. COMMON NIGHTSHADE, 
KIL. Sk. 1:20. Gray, Man, ed. 6, 374. Chap, Fl. 348. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:297. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1:53. 
COSMOPOLITAN IN TEMPERATE AND WARMER REGIONS. 
