8 12 FLORA. 



plish spots, 1.8-2.5 cm. in diameter; anthers yellow; berry reddish. Rich soil, 

 especially in open places, N. Y. to Manitoba, Fla. and La. July-Sept. 



Physalis Virginikna intermedia Rydberg. Leaves thin and subentire, gradually 

 tapering into winged petioles; pubescence iu the young plant somewhat viscid. Ind, 

 to Ala. and Tex. 



14. Physalis heterophylla Nees. CLAMMY GROUND-CHERRY. (I. F. f. 

 3203.) Perennial by a creeping rootstock, 4-9 dm. tall, viscid and glandular, and 

 villous with long spreading jointed flat hairs; leaf blades often acute but very 

 rarely with an acumination, thick, sinuate ly toothed, or sometimes subentire; 

 calyx long-villous, its lobes triangular, generally shorter than the tube; corolla 

 1.6-2 cm. in diameter, greenish yellow with a brownish or purplish center; anthers 

 mostly yellow; berry yellow. In rich soil, N. B. to Saskatch., Fla., Colo, and 

 Tex. 



Physalis heterophylla ambigua (A. Gray) Rydberg. Tall and generally upright, very 

 long-villous, scarcely at ail viscid; flowers commonly larger; anthers mostly purplish. Vt. 

 to Iowa and Tenn. 



Physalis heterophylla nyctagfnea (Dunal) Rydberg. Leaves usually dark green 

 and of a firm texture, more or less acuminate at the apex, often subentire, and pubes- 

 cent mainly on the veins of the lower surface. R. I. to Iowa and La. 



Physalis Peruviana L. STRAWBERRY TOMATO. A native of South America ; it is 

 cultivated for its fruit in all warm and temperate regions, and often escapes. It resem- 

 bles P. heterophylla, but differs in the leaves, which have a long distinct acumination, 

 and in the pubescence, which is shorter, denser, and not at all viscid. 



15. Physalis comata Rydberg. HILLSIDE GROUND-CHERRY. (I. F. f. 3204.) 

 Erect, 4-5 elm. high; pubescence fine and short, that on the calyx, peduncles and 

 upper branches mixed with long white flat jointed hairs. Leaf-blades not over 

 5 cm. long, round-ovate, scarcely at all cordate, thin, somewhat repand-dentate, or 

 nearly entire; peduncles as long as the fruiting calyx, or longer; corolla greenish 

 yellow, with brown center, 1.2-2 cm. in diameter. Fruiting calyx thin, round- 

 ovoid, somewhat lo-angled, scarcely sunken at the base. Hillsides, Neb., Kans., 

 Colo, and Tex. 



16. Physalis rotundata Rydberg. ROUND- LEAVED GROUND-CHERRY. (I. F. f. 

 3205.) Zigzag, generally dichotomously branched, from a perennial rootstock, 

 densely and finely viscid -pubescent, usually more glandular than the preceding. 

 Leaves nearly orbicular, cordate, 2.5-4.5 cm. in diameter, with small teeth; 

 petioles short, more or less winged; peduncles short; corolla 1.6 cm. in diameter, 

 greenish yellow with a brownish center; fruiting calyx ovoid, slightly angled, 

 scarcely sunken at the base. Dry plains, S. Dak. to Tex. and N. Mex. July- 

 Sept. 



17. Physalis viscosa L. STELLATE GROUND-CHERRY. (I. F. f. 3206.) Per- 

 ennial by a creeping rootstock; stems creeping, with a dense ashy stellate pubes- 

 cence, or in age glabrate. Leaves elliptic, oval or ovate, obtuse, thinnish, entire or 

 undulate, in the typical South American form often cordate at the base, but rarely 

 so in our plant; peduncles 1-2.5 cm> l n g: calyx -lobes triangular, generally shorter 

 than the tube; corolla greenish yellow with a darker center, 1.52 cm. in diameter; 

 fruiting calyx 2-3 cm. long, round-ovoid, scarcely sunken at the base; berry 

 orange or yellow. On sea beaches, or in sand near the coast, Va. and N. Car. to 

 the Argentine Republic. 



Physalis Alkeke'ngi L. STRAWBERRY TOMATO. WINTER CHERRY. A native of 

 Europe and Asia, often cultivated for its fruit and sometimes escapes from cultivation. 

 The flowers are whitish ; corolla-limb more distinctly 5-lobed; leaves broadly deltoid, 

 acute at both ends, repand or angulately toothed. 



3. QUINCULA Raf. 



A low and diffuse somewhat scurfy herb, with a stout perennial root. Leaves 

 sinuate to pinnatifid, somewhat fleshy. Peduncles commonly in pairs from the 

 axils, sometimes solitary, or in fascicles of 3-5. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, in 

 fruit inflated, sharply 5 -angular and reticulate, enclosing the fruit, the lobes conni- 

 vent Corolla pentagonal in outline, veiny. Anthers opening by longitudinal 



