234 SOLANACE^. Physalis. 



P. WYightii, Gray. Annual, a span high, widely branched, nearly glabrous ; the ap- 

 pressed and rather sparse pubescence on pedicels and young parts very short and mi- 

 nute : leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, sinuate-toothed or repand, acute at base, about 

 an iuch long : pedicels filiform, longer than the flower and the fruiting calyx : corolla over 

 half inch in diameter, apparently pure white : anthers with or without a tinge of violet : 

 fruiting calyx half inch long, nearly filled by the berry. S. W. Texas, on prairies of the 

 San Pedro, Wrirjht. 



* * Corolla lurid greenish-white or yellow, mostly darker-colored or brownish in the centre, with 

 or without a brown-purple eye, small or middle-sized, 3 to 10 lines in diameter. 



4 Strictly annuals, glabrous or nearly so; the pubescence if any minute, and neither viscid nor 

 stellate : anthers violet. 



.M. Corolla small, 3 to 6 lines broad : fruiting calyx at first acutely angled and inflated, closing 

 over, but at full maturity nearly replete with the greenish-yellow berry: stem and branches con- 

 spicuously angular: petioles long and slender. 



P. obsciira, Michx. Branches widely diffuse : leaves broadly deltoid-ovate, mostly with 

 truncate or subcordate base, unequally dentate, abruptly acuminate, membranaceous (14 to 

 3 inches long) : slender pedicels about half an inch long : corolla (3 or 4 lines broad) pale 

 yellow with a dark eye : calyx deeply 5-cleft into lanceolate-subulate lobes, in fruit ovate- 

 pyramidal and acuminate (over an inch long), very smooth, with 5 strong keeled angles 

 which are hardly obliterated at maturity, the 5 intermediate nerves much less distinct. 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 64. P. obscura, var. glabra, Michx. Fl. i. 149. P. pruinosa, Ell. Sk. 

 i. 279, not L. P. Brasiliensis, Sendtner in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 133 ?" Carolina," Michaux. 

 Key West, Florida, Blodijett. Near Houston, Texas, E. Hall, no. 503. 



P. angulata, L. Erect, or at length declined or spreading, 2 to 4 feet long: leaves 

 mostly ovate-oblong and with somewhat cuneate base, coarsely and laciniately toothed (2 

 to 5 inches long) : slender pedicels an inch or more long : corolla (3 to 6 lines broad) green- 

 ish-white or yellowish and with no distinct eye : calyx-lobes shorter than the tube, trian- 

 gular : fruiting calyx at first ovate-pyramidal and 10-angled, the 5 principal angles sharply 

 keeled, at full maturity nearly replete and globose-ovate. Dill. Elth. i. 13, t. 12. Open 

 rich grounds, through the Middle and Southern Atlantic States. (Widely diffused over 

 tropical regions.) 



Var. Linkiana, Gray, 1. c. Leaves with margin more laciniate-dentate ; the irreg- 

 ular salient teeth lanceolate-subulate: calyx-lobes longer and narrower. P. Linkiana, 

 Nees in Linn. vi. 471. (Moris. Hist. iii. 52b', sect. 13, t. 3, fig. 22, exaggerated.) S. Atlan- 

 tic States. (Trop. Amer.) 



P. sequata, Jacq. f . Erect, much branched, a foot or two high, the younger stems and 

 branches a little hairy or pubescent: leaves ovate or oblong, repand or sinuate-toothed 

 (an inch or two long or rarely larger) : pedicels very short (a line or two long) : corolla 

 (3 to 5 lines broad) light yellow witli a brownish eye: calyx-lobes short and broadly ovate- 

 triangular: fruiting calyx ovate-globose at maturity, about equally 10-nerved, an inch or 

 considerably less in length. Eclog. ii. t. 137 ; Nees, 1. c. ; Dunal, 1. c. P. Philadelphia, 

 var. minor, Dunal, 1. c. 450. Waste grounds, S. Texas and New Mexico to the border of 

 California or near it. (Mex., W. Ind.) 



++ ++ Corolla larger. 7 to 10 or sometimes 12 lines broad : fruiting calyx at maturity replete and 

 distended with the large reddish or purple berry, and open at the mouth, sometimes bursting. 



P. Philadelphia, Lam. Erect stem and branches angled, 2 or 3 feet high : leaves 

 obliquely ovate or oblong, repand-angulate and sometimes few-toothed (2 to 4 inches long) : 

 corolla greenish or yellowish with a dark eye : calyx-lobes broadly ovate or triangular, not 

 longer than the tube; fruiting calyx globular, an inch in diameter. Diet. ii. 101. P. 

 cheiH'/ioili't'oliii, Willd., not Lam. "P. atriplicifdia, Jacq. Fragm. t. 85." -In fertile soil, 

 Pennsylvania to Illinois and Texas : sometimes cult, for the esculent fruit. 

 t * Annuals or perennials, strong-scented, villous or pubescent with viscid or glandular simple 

 hairs: fruiting calyx ovate-pyramidal and carinately ii-angled at maturity, closed, loosely envel- 

 oping the green or at length yellow berry: leaves ovate or cordate. 



H- Root annual : anthers violet. 



P. pubescens, L. A foot or two high, with at length widely spreading branches : leaves 

 ovate or cordate, varying from nearly entire to coarsely and obtusely repand-toothed, 

 sometimes becoming nearly glabrous except on the midrib and veins (commonly about 2 

 inches long) : corolla barely half inch in diameter when expanded, dull yellow with a 



