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or acutish at the apex, bluntly serrate with appresscd glandular- 

 tipped teeth, smooth and of a dull green color above, paler and 

 finely pubescent on the lower surface with short simple or forked 

 rusty hairs, which become longer and more dense along the midrib 

 and principal veins, veinlets somewhat prominent : racemes elon- 

 gated, 4 to 6 inches long, pedunclcd, strictly erect ; the rachis and 

 short pedicels like the calyx pubescent ; petals small (judgin 

 from the w^ithered petals clinging yet to the cal}'x in the specimens 

 collected on Red Mountain, near Birmingham). 



As observed on the few fruiting specimens collected on the 

 Chehawhaw Mountain (Talladega Co.), altitude about 2400 feet, 

 the racemes become more spreading, drupes reddish to black and 

 of the size of the fruit of the black wild cherry. 



Readil}' distinguished from the latter by the character of the 

 leaves and of the inflorescence as described above. 



Not infrequent on the rocky summits (siliceous rocks) of the 

 hijrher ridges in the Coosa Basin, Talladega County, Alpine 



Mountains. Clay: Chehawhaw Mountain in fruit, August 7th. 

 Jefferson : Red Mountain, ledges of siliceous red iron ore, just 

 past flowering. May 10, 1898. 



Physalis monticola sp. nov. 



Perennial from a horizontal rootstock ; 10-12 inches high. 



Stem slender, assurgent, like the branches, angled and roughish 

 by reflexcd hairs along the angles ; branches erect, more or less 

 flexuous, becoming more villous towards their extremity with flat 

 jointed single hairs : leaves ovate to oblong ovate, tapering at both 

 ends, oblique at the base and decurrent on the narrow winged 

 petiole, repand or subentire : leaf blade i ^ to 2 inches long, ^ to 

 I inch wide, thin, sparsely strigose, more densely hairy along the 

 midrib, and principal veins, roughish haiiy below, ciliolate ; petioles 

 ^ to I inch long : peduncles slender, nodding : calyx densely hairy 

 at the base and on the lanceolate lobes : corolla ^ inch wide, 

 pubescent, dingy yellow with a dark brown center ; anthers pale 

 yellow : fruiting calyx deeply sunk at the base, ovate oblong 



closed by the acuminate lobes, about i y^ inches long and ^ inch 

 wide at the base, not prominently angled. 



Resembles slightly smoother forms 6^ PJiysalis JictcropJiylla, De 

 Kalb County on Lookout mountain near Mentone, borders of 

 fields, woods and pastures. In flower May 30, 1892; fine fruit- 

 ing specimens collected in the same locality September 10, 1898, 



