POTATO FAMILY 671 



branches and finely puberulent foliage. Petioles slender, 1-2.5 cm. long; leaves ovate, sinuate- 

 dentate, acute at the apex, broadly cuneate to subcordate at the base, 1.5-3 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 wide; pedicels 1-3.5 cm. long at anthesis, to 5 cm. long in fruit; calyx broadly tubular-cam- 

 panul'ate, 5-6 mm. long, 3.5-4 mm. broad, hispidulous ; corolla 12-15 mm. broad, rotate, green- 

 ish yellow; fruiting calyx ovoid, rounded to slightly sunken at the base, acute to acummate at 

 the apex, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, moderately hispidulous on the low angles. 



Sandy soil, Sonoran Zones; mainly near the coast from San Diego County southward to central Lower 

 California. Type locality: Cedros Island. March-July. 



8. Physalis lanceolata Michx. Prairie Ground-cherry. Fig. 4483. 



Physalis lanceolata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 149. 1803. 



Physalis pennsylvanica var. lanceolata A. Gray, Man. ed. 5. 382. 1867. 



Perennial from a slender creeping rootstock with diffusely spreading branches 2-6 cm. long 

 and sparsely hirsute foliage. Petioles 2-20 mm. long ; leaves ovate to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 2-8 cm. long, entire or slightly sinuate, cuneate at the base, acute to obtuse at the apex ; pedi- 

 cels 0.5-3.5 cm. long, recurved in fruit; calyx campanulate, 8-10 mm. long, the ovate-lanceolate 

 lobes about equaling the tube; corolla dull yellow, with brownish center, 8-13 mm. long, broadly 

 campanulate to funnelform ; fruiting calyx 2-4 cm. long, with ovate, rounded teeth, not sunken 

 at the base; berry yellow or greenish yellow, 10-13 mm. in diameter; seeds 2.2-2.5 mm. long. 



An introduced weed along railway embankments, Transition Zone; eastern Washington to Wyoming and 

 South Dakota, New Mexico, Kansas, and South Carolina. Type locality: "Carolina." July-Sept. 



9. Physalis subglabrata Mack. & Bush. Smooth Ground-cherry. Fig. 4484. 



Physalis subglabrata Mack. & Bush, Trans. St. Louis Acad. 12: 86. 1902. 



Erect perennial to 1 . 5 m. tall from a heavy, deep-seated rootstock with glabrous to sparsely 

 pubescent herbage. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, asymmetrical at the base, acute to short- 

 acuminate at the apex, 1-2.5 cm. wide, 2.5-8 cm. long, entire or oftener repand-dentate, the 

 petioles 1-3 cm. long ; pedicels 1-2 cm. long in flower ; calyx campanulate, glabrous or sparsely 

 pubescent on the angles near the base, 2-2.5 cm. long in fruit; corolla broadly campanulate, 

 yellow, 1-1.5 cm. long; berry globose, 1-1.5 cm. in diameter, yellow or tinged with red or 

 purple and often bursting the calyx. 



An introduced weed in cultivated land and along roadsides. Upper Sonoran Zone: Malheur Countv.OTC- 

 gon, eastward to the Atlantic States, south to Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kentucky. Type locality: Sheffield^ 

 Jackson County, Missouri." June-Sept. 



10. Physalis crassifolia Benth. Thick-leaved Ground-cherry. Fig. 4485. 



Physalis crassifolia Benth. Bot. Sulph. 40. 1844. 



Spreadingly branched compact perennial 3-6 dm. high, 3-15 dm. wide, with finely viscid- 

 puberulent foliage and stems. Petioles slender, equaling or somewhat exceeding the blade; 

 leaves broadly ovate, deltoid, or ovate-cordate, usually small, 1-2.5 cm. wide, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 

 entire or the margins shallowly sinuate, acute to rounded at the apex, green, somewhat viscid, 

 finely puberulent ; pedicels slender, 8-15 or rarely 30 mm. long at anthesis, scarcely longer in 

 fruit ; calyces campanulate, truncate at the base, 3-5 mm. long, the lobes short, broadly deltoid, 

 1-1.5 mm. long; corolla campanulate-subrotate, 10-15 mm. broad, dull yellow, the tube slightly 

 exceeding the calyx, with 5 narrow pubescent bands from base of tube to tips of the lobes; 

 anthers about 3 mm. long, yellow ; fruiting calyx ovoid, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, obscurely angled, the 

 mouth usually open; berry greenish. 



Sandy and rocky places, Lower Sonoran Zone; Colorado Desert and eastern Mojave Desert, eastward to 

 Utah and Texas, southward to central Sonora and the Cape Region, Lower California. Type locality: Magda- 

 lena Bay. March-June. 



Physalis crassifolia var. cardiophylla (Torr.) A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2^: 235. 1878. (P. cardio- 

 thylla Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 153. 1859.) Leaves thin, cordate, 2.5-6 cm. long. Colorado and Mojave 

 Deserts and eastward in the northern parts of the range of the species to southern Utah. Type locality: 

 "Sonora and California, desert of the Colorado." 



11. Physalis hederaefolia A. Gray. Ivy-leaved Ground-cherry. Fig. 4486. 



Physalis hederaefolia A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 65. 1874. 

 Physalis Palmeri A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2^: 235. 1878. 

 Physalis digitalifolia Britt. Mem. Torrey Club 5: 288. 1895. 



Erect or rarely decumbent cinereous-puberulent perennial^ 3-5 cm. high. Petioles 5-35 mm. 

 long; leaves ovate-deltoid to cordate-subreniform, 1-3 cm. wide, 1.5-5 cm. long, coarsely sinu- 

 ate-dentate, acute to rounded at the apex, broadly cuneate to cordate at the base; pedicels 

 5-15 mm. long at anthesis, recurved and the flowers nodding; calyx tubular-campanulate, 

 6-8 mm. long, viscid-puberulent, the lobes lance-deltoid, two-thirds to four-fifths as long as 

 the tube at anthesis; corolla campanulate-rotate, 12-15 mm. wide, yellow; fruiting calyces ovoid, 

 obtusely 10-angled, strongly reticulate-veined, 2-3 cm. long, usually 2-3 times as long as the 

 pedicels ; berry yellow. 



Sandy plains, arroyos and desert canyons. Arid Transition and Sonoran Zones; southeastern California to 

 Texas and northern Mexico. Type locality: New Mexico. June-Sept. 



