572 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
New Mexico: Mouth of Indian Creek; Pecos; Nara Visa. Open slopes, in the 
Upper Sonoran Zone. 
Our specimens have broader leaves than the type and are larger and stouter, but the 
pubescence, flowers, and fruit are the same. 
10. Physalis cinerascens (Dunal) Hitche. Spr. Fl. Manhattan 32, 1894. 
Physalis pennsylvanica cinerascens Dunal in DC. Prodr, 18!: 435, 1852. 
Physalis mollis cinerascens A. Gray, Proc, Amer. Acad. 10: 66. 1874. 
Type Locatity: Texas or Mexico. 
Ranae: Oklahoma and Texas to California and Mexico. 
New Mexico: Knowles; 20 miles south of Roswell. Plains, in the Upper Sonoran 
Zone, 
11. Physalis fendleri A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 66. 1874. 
Tyre Locaity: “In the northern part of New Mexico.’’ Type collected by 
Fendler. 
Range: Colorado to Arizona and Mexico. 
New Mexico: Las Vegas; Cedar Hill; Carrizo Mountains; Dulce; Raton; Pecos; 
Zuni; Magdalena Mountains; Mangas Springs; Fort Bayard; Dog Spring; Apache 
Spring. Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
12. Physalis hederaefolia A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 65. 1874. 
Physalis digitalifolia Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 288. 1898. 
Physalis palmerit A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2': 235. 1878. 
Type Locauity: Western Texas. 
RanGeE: Colorado and Texas to southern California and Mexico. 
New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Big Hatchet Mountains; Organ Mountains; Tor- 
tugas Mountain; White Mountains; Guadalupe Mountains. Dry hills, in the Lower 
and Upper Sonoran zones. 
13. Physalis comata Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 22: 306. 1895. 
Type Locauiry: Nebraska. 
Rance: Nebraska and Kansas to New Mexico and Texas. 
New Mexico: Stanley; Las Vegas; Raton; Sierra Grande; Las Cruces; Gray. 
Hills and plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
8. SOLANUM L. 
Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes prickly, with simple or pinnate leaves, the 
inflorescence of terminal or axillary cymes; calyx mostly rotate, 5-lobed; corolla 
white, purplish, or violet, rotate, the limb 5-angled or lobed, plicate; stamens adnate 
near the throat, the anthers narrowed upward, opening by terminal pores or slits; 
ovary smooth, 2-celled; berries subglobose in the persistent calyx, pulpy or dry, with 
numerous flattened seeds. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Perennials. 
Plants stellate-pubescent, prickly; roots without tubers... 1. S. elaeagnifolium. 
Plants neither stellate nor prickly; roots with tubers. 
Flowers white; leaflets mostly lanceolate. ............ 2. S. jamesii. 
Flowers purplish; leaflets elliptic to ovate............ 3. 8. fendleri. 
Annuals. 
Leaves pinnatifid...............02.2..200.2..22-02220---- 4. S. triflorwm. 
Leaves sinuate-dentate or entire. 
Plants viscid-villous; fruit greenish or yellowish ...... 7. S. villosum. 
Plants not viscid-villous; fruit black. 
Leaves sparingly strigose beneath; corolla 3 to 4 
mm. long; fruiting calyx spreading. ....... 5. S. interius. 
Leaves densely strigose beneath; corolla 6 to 8 mm. 
long; fruiting calyx erect... .......-.-..--- 6. S. douglasit. 
