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| PHysaLis ARENICOLA n. sp. Plant light green; stems 2-4 dm. 
high, erect from long slender* branching rootstocks, much branched, 
slender, striate, pubescent with simple hairs, some minute and 
usually glandular, others longer, two or three jointed and non- 
glandular, often glabrate with age; leaves in pairs, one usually 
smaller, petioled ; petioles 1-3 cm. long, slender, puberulent ; 
blade 1.5-6 cm, long, 1.5—4 cm. in greatest width, ovate or ovate- 
oblong, irregularly and not deeply undiulate or angulate-dentate, 
obtuse at apex, truncate or: subcordate and unequal at base, 
appressed-ciliate, upper surface puberulent on the veins, lower 
Surface appressed-pubescent chiefly along the veins, veins rather 
©onspicuously reticulated below; flowers axillary, on slender 
pubescent pedicels as long as or longer than the petioles ; flower- 
img calyx pubescent with both long and jointed and minute, 
simple, glandular hairs, 7-8 mm. long, teeth triangular, acute, 
nearly as long as the tube; corolla rotate-campanulate, about 15 | 
mm. in diameter in the throat, minutely ciliate, light yellow with 
a brown-purple center; anthers yellow; fruiting calyx about 3 cm. 
high, rather narrowly pyramidal-ovate, teeth many times shorter 
_ lan the tube, with margins often darker colored, conspicuously 
Feticulate-veined, minutely pubescent on the veins and margins of 
the teeth ; berry light yellow. 
Physalis arenicola is most nearly allied to P. Virginiana Mill., 
but presents several well-marked characters which distinguish it 
from that Species. The pubescence is much finer and less 
glandular. The stems are more slender. The leaves are smaller, 
more regular in outline, on more slender petioles, less deeply 
toothed, never acuminate, the upver surface nearly glabrous, the 
lower minutely pubescent, the pubescence mostly confined to the 
Veins. The flowering calyx is much less hairy. The calyx in’ 
fruit is glabrous save on the veins and margins of the teeth. The 
“orolla is quite glabrous, except for the ciliate margin. The whole 
Plant is greener and more delicate in every way than P. Virginiana. 
Collected in light sandy soil along railroad embankments near 
Eustis, Florida, in 1894, by Mr. George V. Nash (Numbers 154, 
170, 1059, 1 170). Flowers from March to July. . 
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Aristorocuia Nasuit n. sp. Root a cluster of long, slender 
fibres from a short knotty rootstock ; stems 10-22 cm. long, single 
pr two or three from the same rootstock, simple or sparingly 
branched, erect, slender, flexuous, rather sparingly pubescent with : 
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_ *One plant out of about forty examined has the rootstock considerably thickened. 
