350 SOLANACEJE. (NKMITSIl ADE FAMILY.) 



2. CAPSICUM, Tourn. Red-Pepper. 



Calyx rup-sliaped, 5 - 7-toothcd. Corolla wheel-shaped, 5 - 7-cleft, phiitcd. 

 Stamens 5-7, inserted on the throat of tin: corolla, exserted • anthers comment, 

 opening lengthwise. Stigma ohtuse. Berry juiceless, partly 2-3-celled, many- 

 seeded. — Herbs or shrubs, with acrid juice, .solitary flowers, and red berries. 



1 C. frutescens, L. Shrubby, smooth ; stem branching; leaves oblong- 

 ovate, obtuse, entire, acute or rounded at the base, pctioled, often by pairs ; 

 calyx obscurely toothed, long-pedunclcd, erect ; berry oblong, shorter than the 

 peduncle. — South Florida. — Stem l°-2 high. Leaves 1' long. Flowers iu 

 the forks of the branches. Berry 4"- 6" long. 



3. PHYSALIS, L. Ground-Cherry. 



Calyx 5-toothcd, inflated in fruit, and enclosing the juicy berry. Corolla 

 short-bell-shaped, plaited, 5-lobcd or 5-angled. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube 

 of the corolla: anthers separate, opening lengthwise. Stigma obtuse. Seeds 

 flat, kidney-shaped. — Diffusely branching herbs, with alternate petioled leaves, 

 which are often by pairs, and solitary nodding flowers in their axils, or in the 

 forks of the branches. 



* Perennial: peduncles commonly longer than the petiole: corolla 8" - 10" in diam- 

 eter, spotted in the throat with brown or purple. 



1. P. viscosa, L. Pubescent or hairy ; root slender, elongated ; stems 

 erect, at length diffusely branched, angled ; leaves ovate, entire or angularly 

 toothed, acute or obtuse, rounded or cordate at the base ; calyx hairy, with 

 triangular-ovate lobes ; corolla pubescent, yellow, with 5 large brown spots in 

 the throat; style and filaments purple; anthers yellow; fruiting calyx oblong- 

 ovate, sharply 5-angled, concave or truncate at the base; berry globose, viscid. 

 (P. heterophylla, Nees. P. Pennsylvania, /..) — Dry light or sandy soil, Flor- 

 ida to Mississippi, and northward. July -Oct. — Stems £°-2° high, sometimes 

 purple; the pubescence often viscid, jointed, or rough. Leaves l'-2' loii'_ r . the 

 uppermost rarely acute and unequal at the base. Corolla obscurely lobed. 

 Fruiting calyx l'-lV long. 



2. P. lanceolata, Michx. Pubescent ; leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong, 

 obtuse, but often attenuate at the apex, entire, wavy, or coarsely and obtusely 

 toothed on tin' margins, acute and commonly very unequal at the base; calyx 

 pubescent, the lobes long-acuminate from an ovate base ; corolla 5-lobcd, or some- 

 what 10-lobed or toothed, yellow in the throat ; fruiting calyx ovate or globose- 

 ovate, 5-angled. (P. Elliottii, Kunze. P. maritima, M. A. Curtis f ) — Drj Bandy 

 soil, Florida to North Carolina. July-Oct— Stem 1° high, ereel or diffuse 



Leaves 1 '-.".' long. Fruiting calyx l'-lV long, smooth or hairy. 



•'!• P. angustifolia, Nutt Smooth ; stem low, cre.t or at length diffuse, 

 3-4-angled; leaves linear or lanceolate, obtuse, entire, narrowed gradually at 

 the base into a winged petiole; calyx lobes short, triangular-ovate, obtuse, 

 tomentose on the margins; corolla yellow, brownish-purple in the throat, 



