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PHYSALIS ALKEKENGI. | COMMON WINTER CHERRY. 
SYNONYMA. Alkekengi feu Halicacabum. Pharm. Geoff. iii. 
55. Dale. 172. Alfton. ii. 254. Rutty. 13. Cullen. ii. 553. 
= Bergius. 130. Murray. i. 463. Lewis. 30. Ed. New Difpenf. 
120. Gerard. Emac. 342. Ray. Hi iff. O81. Hall. Stirp. Helv. | 
2. 597 Solanum veficarium, Bauh, Pin. 166. Parks Theat. 462. 
Pentandria ea bin Gen Pl. : 2 50. 
Gen. Ch. Cor. rotata. Stam. conniventia. Bacca intra calycem 
inflatum, bilocularis. ise 
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Sp. Ch. P foliis geminis integris isthe; ‘caule herbaceo inferne 
fubramofo. | se a 
THE root is perennial, ‘long, creeping, ‘fibrous. Stalks annual, 
round, crooked, {mooth, fimple,-about a foot high. Leaves in pairs, — 
upon footftalks, of an irregular fhape, undulated, pointed, veined, 
entire. Calyx perfiftent, becoming a large orbicular inflated pen- 
_ tangular membrane inclofing the fruit; fegments five, pointed. 
Corolla monopetalous, wheel-fhaped ; tube very fhort; limb five- 
parted ; fegments five, broad, fhort, pointed. Filaments. five, {mall, 
tapering, approaching together : anthere erect: germen 1 oundifh : 
-ftyle filiform, longer than the filaments, terminated by a blunt ftigma. 
Fruit a red round two-celled berry, inclofed in the calyx, and con- 
taining numerous flat kidney-thaped feeds. tna 
This plant, which is a native of the South of Europe, is not un- 
frequently found in the gardens of this country, in which it has been 
_ cultivated ever fince the days of Gerard, in 1597. It flowers from 
July till September, and ripens its fruit in Ofober. 
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