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1. Lycium pallidum Miers, [llustr. 8. Amer. Pl. 2: 108. 1849-57. 
Type LocaLity: ‘‘In Nova Mexico.’’ Type collected by Fendler (no. 670), prob- 
ably near Santa Fe. 
RanGeE: Utah and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains; Cedar Hill; Barranca; Zuni Reservation; Thoreau; 
Tiznitzin; Fort Bayard; Mangas Springs; Bear Mountain; Dog Spring; Organ Moun- 
tains; Nogal. Dry hills and plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. Lycium torreyi A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 47. 1862. 
TypeE LocALity: ‘‘Texas, on the Rio Grande.”’ 
RaNnGeE: Western Texas to southern California. 
New Mexico: Black Range; Playas Valley; north of Deming; Las Palomas Hot 
Springs; Socorro; Mesilla Valley; Organ Mountains. Dry valleys and plains, in the 
Lower Sonoran Zone. 
The fruit of this and other species is eaten by the native people. The flavor is 
rather insipid. 
8. Lycium parviflorum A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 48. 1862. 
Tyrer Locaiity: Arizona. 
RanGeE: Southern New Mexico and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Florida Mountains; White Sands; White Mountains; east of Deming. 
Dry plains, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 
’ 4, Lycium halimifolium Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. no. 6.1768. | Matrimony VINE, 
Lycium barbarum vulgare Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2: 3. 1811. 
Lycium vulgare Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13!: 509. 1852. 
TYPE LOcALITy: China. 
A native of Europe and Asia, common in cultivation in the United States and 
frequently escaped. It is said to be established in the vicinity of Las Vegas. It is 
cultivated at Raton and in the Mesilla Valley. 
5. QUINCULA Raf. 
Low diffuse scurfy perennial herb with sinuately toothed or lobed leaves and violet 
flowers in small axillary clusters; calyx campanulate, inflated at maturity, sharply 
5-angled, reticulated; corolla rotate, pentagonal; seeds few, reniform, somewhat 
flattened, thick-margined, rugose-tuberculate. 
1. Quincula lobata (Torr.) Raf. Atl. Journ. 145. 1832. 
Physalis lobata Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 226. 1827. 
Tyre Locatity: ‘On the Canadian ?’’ Colorado or New Mexico. 
Rance: Kansas and New Mexico to California and Mexico. 
New Mexico: Mora; Raton; Roswell; Ruidoso Creek; La Lande; Buchanan; Lincoln. 
Plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
6. MARGARANTHUS Schlecht. 
Smooth annuals with the appearance of Physalis, but with an urceolate corolla 
more or less constricted and minutely 5-toothed at the throat and with a rather dry 
fruit. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Calyx half as long as the corolla, in fruit about 8 mm. in diameter.. 1. M. solanaceus. 
Calyx fully two-thirds as long as the corolla, in fruit 12 to 15 mm. 
in diameter................---- 0-2-2 eee eee ee ee eee eee eee 2. M. purpurascens. 
