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SOLANACEAE. 



2. Physalis turMnata Medic. 

 SMOOTH GROUND CHERRY. (Fig. 360.) 

 Annual, glabrous, or minutely puberu- 

 lent when young. Stems rather stout, 

 acutely angled and divaricately 

 branched ; leaves broadly ovate, obtuse 

 or cordate and slightly oblique at the 

 base, thin and dark green, repand-den- 

 tate, short-acuminate; peduncles short, 

 in fruit about 8" long; calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate, acuminate; corolla 4"-5" 

 wide, yellow with a purplish eye ; fruit- 

 ing calyx about li' long, long-attenuate, 

 almost pyramidal, deeply retuse at the 

 base. [P. obscura Michx. ; P. Linkiana 

 of H. B. Small.] 



Frequent in waste and cultivated grounds. Naturalized. Native of the 

 southern United States and West Indies. Flowers in summer and autumn. 



3. Physalis angulata L. CUT- 

 LEAVED GROUND CHERRY. Cow 

 CHERRY. BALLOON CHERRY. (Fig. 

 361.) Annual, glabrous. Stems 

 angular, l-3 tall, branched; 

 leaves ovate, usually sharply sin- 

 uate, with long-acuminate teeth, 

 thin, li'-3' long, mostly narrowed 

 at base; petioles slender, i'-2' 

 long; peduncles slender, about 1' 

 long, erect, often reflexed at ma- 

 turity, but seldom exceeding the 

 fruiting calyx in length; calyx 

 glabrous ; lobes triangular to lan- 

 ceolate, generally shorter than the 

 tube; corolla 3 "-5" in diameter, 

 unspotted ; anthers more or less 

 purplish tinged ; fruiting calyx 

 about 1' long, ovoid, not promi- 

 nently 5-10-angled, sometimes 

 purple-nerved and at length nearly 

 filled with the yellow berry. [P. 

 Linlciana Dunal.] 



Frequent in waste and cultivated ground. Naturalized. Native of the southern 

 United States and tropical America. Flowers in summer and autumn. 



