GENUS I. 



POTATO FAMILY. 



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dehiscent. Disk present, or none. Ovary entire, superior, 2-celled (rarely 3-5- 

 celled) ; ovules numerous on the axile placentae, anatropous or amphitropous ; 

 style slender, simple ; stigma terminal ; fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds numerous, 

 the testa sometimes roughened; embryo terete, spiral, curved, or nearly straight; 

 endosperm fleshy ; cotyledons semiterete. 



About 75 genera and 1750 species, widely distributed, most abundant in tropical regions. 



* Fruit a pulpy berry; corolla plicate, its lobes generally induplicate. 

 Anthers unconnected, destitute of terminal pores, dehiscent. 

 Fruiting calyx bladdery-inflated. 



Fruiting calyx s-angled and deeply s-parted ; ovary 3-s-celled. i. Physalodes. 



Fruiting calyx s-lobed, not parted, lo-ribbed, often s-io-angled, reticulated, wholly enclosing 



the berry ; ovary 2-celled. 

 Corolla open-campanulate, yellowish or whitish, often with a dark center; seeds with a 



thin margin, finely pitted. 2. Physalis. 



Corolla flat-rotate, violet or purple; seeds thick, rugose-tuberculate. 3. Quincula. 



Fruiting calyx somewhat enlarged, but closely fitted to the fruit, thin, obscurely veiny, open at 



the mouth. 



Corolla rotate, whitish ; lobes of fruiting calyx much exceeding the berry. 4. Leucophysalis. 

 Corolla rotate, whitish, sometimes tinged with purple ; fruiting calyx not exceeding the 

 berry. 5. Chamaesaracha. 



Anthers connivent or slightly connate; fruiting calyx not enlarged. 



Anthers short or oblong, opening by a terminal pore or short slit in our species. 6. Solanum. 

 Anthers long, tapering from base to summit, longitudinally dehiscent. 7. Lycopersicon. 



** Fruit a nearly dry berry; corolla campanulate, little or not at all plicate, its lobes imbricated. 



8. Lyciuin. 



*** Fruit a capsule; corolla funnelform. 



Capsule circumscissile toward the top, which separates as a lid ; corolla irregular. 9. Hyoscyamus. 

 Capsule opening by valves. 



Capsule generally prickly. 10. Datura. 



Capsule not prickly. 



Flowers paniculate or racemose; stamens nearly uniform in length. n. Nicotiana. 



Flowers solitary; stamens very unequal. 12. Petunia. 



i. PHYSALODES Boehm. in Ludwig, Def. 41. 1760. 



[NICANDRA Adans. Fam. PI. 2 : 219. 1763.] 



An annual erect branching glabrous herb, with alternate petioled thin sinuate-dentate or 

 lobed leaves, and large light blue peduncled nodding flowers, solitary in the axils. Calyx 

 5-parted, 5-angled, much inflated in fruit, its segments ovate, connivent, cordate or sagittate 

 at the base, strongly reticulated. Corolla broadly campanulate, plicate in the bud, slightly 

 5-lobed. Stamens 5, included, inserted on the corolla near its base; filaments filiform, dilated 

 and pilose below; anthers oblong, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 3~5-celled; style 

 slender; stigma 3-5-lobed. Berry globose, nearly dry, enclosed in the calyx. [Greek, Physalis- 



like.] 



A monotypic Peruvian genus. 



1. Physalodes physalodes (L.) Britton. 



Apple-of-Peru. Fig. 3695. 



Atropa physalodes L. Sp. PI. 181. 1753. 

 Physalodes peruvianum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 452. 



1891. 

 P. physalodes Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 287. 1894. 



Stem angled, 2-5 high. Leaves ovate or 

 oblong, acuminate but blunt-pointed, narrowed at 

 the base, 3'-8' long, i'-4' wide; petioles longer 

 than the peduncles; flowers i'-ij' long and 

 broad ; corolla-limb almost entire ; fruiting calyx 

 i'-ii' long and thick, its segments acute at the 

 apex, their basal auricles acute or cuspidate; berry 

 about *' in diameter, loosely surrounded by the 

 calyx. 



In waste places, escaped from gardens, Nova Sco- 

 tia to Ontario, Florida, Tennessee and Missouri. 

 Adventive from Peru. Plant with the aspect of a 

 large Physalis. Leaves similar to those of Stramo- 

 nium. July-Sept. 



2. PHYSALIS L. Sp. PI. 182. 1753* 

 Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes a little woody below, with entire or sinuately 



toothed leaves. Peduncles slender, in ours solitary from the axils of the leaves. Calyx 

 campanulate, 5-toothed, in fruit enlarged and bladdery-inflated, membranous, 5-angled, or 

 prominently lo-ribbed and reticulate, wholly inclosing the pulpy berry, its teeth mostly 



* Text contributed to our first edition by Dr. P. A. RYDBERG, here somewhat revised. 



