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SOLANACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



ii. Physalis lanceolata Michx. Prairie 

 Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3706. 



Physalis lanceolata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 149. 1803. 



Physalis Pennsylvania var. lanceolata A. Gray, Man. 

 Ed. 5, 382. 1867. 



Perennial; rootstock apparently slender and creep- 

 ing; stem about i% high, first erect, later spreading 

 or diffuse, only slightly angled, sparingly hirsute with 

 flat hairs. Leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate or spatu- 

 late, tapering into the petiole, acute or obtuse, nearly 

 always entire, rarely wavy, but never sinuately tooth- 

 ed, thickish, sparingly hairy with short hairs; pe- 

 duncles s"-io" long, in fruit reflexed; calyx strigose 

 or villous, rarely glabrous, its lobes triangular-lan- 

 ceolate ; corolla dullish yellow with a brownish cen- 

 ter, about 8" in diameter; fruiting calyx round- 

 ovoid, not sunken at the base, indistinctly lo-angled; 

 berry yellow or greenish yellow. 



On dry prairies, South Carolina to Illinois, South Da- 

 kota, Wyoming, Kansas and New Mexico. July-Sept. 



12. Physalis pumila Nutt. Low Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3707. 



Physalis pumila Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II.) 5: 



193- 1834- 

 Physalis lanceolata var. hirta A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 



10 : 68. 1874. 



Perennial from a slender rootstock, ii-3 high; 

 stem hirsute, obscurely angled. Leaves thick, broadly 

 ovate to oblong, acute at both ends and somewhat 

 rhomboid, the lower often obtuse and obovate, gen- 

 erally much larger than in the preceding ; blades 

 2 r ~4' long, entire or seldom sinuate, on petioles 

 io"-i5" long, strigose with many-branched hairs 

 especially on the lower surface; peduncles s"-io" 

 long, in fruit reflexed and ii'-2' long; calyx 

 densely hirsute, not stellate-pubescent, its lobes tri- 

 angular, generally a little shorter than the tube; 

 corolla yellow with brown center, 8"-io" in diam- 

 eter; fruiting calyx usually more elongated than in 

 the preceding, \\'-2' long, oblong-ovoid, a little 

 sunken at the base, indistinctly lo-angled. 



Plains and prairies, Illinois to Colorado and Texas. 

 July-Sept. 



13. Physalis virginiana Mill. Virginia Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3708. 



Physalis virginiana Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 4. 1768. 

 Physalis pennsylvanica A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 382. 1867. 



Not L. 1753. 

 Physalis virginiana intermedia Rydberg, Mem. Torr. Club 



4: 345. 1896. 



Perennial; rootstock thick and somewhat fleshy; 

 stem i$-3 high, erect, dichotomously branched, 

 somewhat angular, more or less strigose-hairy with 

 flat hairs, sometimes a little glandular, or sometimes 

 nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, tapering to 

 both ends, \\'-2\ r long, generally more or less sin- 

 uately dentate, often yellowish green ; peduncles 5"-io" 

 long, generally erect, in fruit curved but scarcely re- 

 flexed ; calyx strigose, hirsute, or at least puberulent, 

 its lobes triangular or broadly lanceolate, nearly equal- 

 ling the tube ; corolla sulphur-yellow with purplish 

 spots, '-:' in diameter; anthers yellow; fruiting calyx 

 pyramidal-ovoid, 5-angled, sunken at the base; berry 

 reddish. 



Rich soil, especially in open places, Ontario to Manitoba. 

 Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and Texas. Consists of 

 numerous races, differing in pubescence. July-Sept. Wild cherry. 



