572 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



New Mexico: Mouth of Indian Creek; Pecos; Nara Visa. Open slopes, in the 

 Upper Sonoran Zone. 

 Our specimens have broader leaves than the type and are larger and stouter, but the 

 -eence, flowers, and fruit are the same. 



10. Physalis cinerascens (Dufial) Hitchc. Spr. Fl. Manhattan 32. 1894. 

 Physalis pennsylvanica cinerascens Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13': 435. 1852. 

 Physalis mollis cinerascens A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 66. 1874. 

 Type locality: Texas or Mexico. 



Range: Oklahoma and Texas to California and Mexico. 



New Mexico: Knowles; 20 miles south of Roswell. Plains, in the Upper Sonoran 

 Zone. 



11. Physalis fendleri A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 66. 1874. 



Type locality: "In the northern part of New Mexico." Type collected by 

 Fendler. 



Range: Colorado to Arizona and Mexico. 



New Mexico: Las Vegas; Cedar Hill; Carrizo Mountains; Dulce; Raton; Pecos; 

 Zuni; Magdalena Mountains; Mangas Springs; Fort Bayard; Dog Spring; Apache 

 Spring. Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



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

 Physalis digitalifolia Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 288. 1895. 

 Physalis palmeri A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2 1 : 235. 1878. 



Type locality: Western Texas. 



Range: Colorado and Texas to southern California and Mexico. 



New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Big Hatchet Mountains; Organ Mountains; Tor- 

 tugas Mountain; White Mountains; Guadalupe Mountains. Dry hills, in the Lower 

 and Upper Sonoran zones. 



13. Physalis comata Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 22: 306. 1895. 

 Type locality: Nebraska. 



Range: Nebraska and Kansas to New Mexico and Texas. 



New Mexico: Stanley; Las Vegas; Raton; Sierra Grande; Las duces; Gray. 

 Hills and plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



8. SOLANUM L. 



Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes prickly, with simple or pinnate leaves, the 

 inflorescence of terminal or axillary cymes; calyx mostly rotate, 5-lobed; corolla 

 white, purplish, or violet, rotate, the limb 5-angled or lobed, plicate; stamens adnate 

 near the throat, the anthers narrowed upward, opening by terminal pores or slits; 

 ovary smooth, 2-celled; berries subglobose in the persistent calyx^ pulpy or dry, with 

 numerous flattened seeds. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Perennials. 



Plants stellate-pubescent, prickly; roots without tubers... 1. S. elaeagnifolium. 

 Plants neither stellate nor prickly; roots with tubers. 



P'lowers white; leaflets mostly lanceolate 2. 5. jamesii. 



Flowers purplish; leaflets elliptic to ovate 3. S. fend It ri. 



Annuals. 



Leaves pinnatifid 4 . S. triflorum. 



Leaves sinuate-dentate or entire. 



Plants viscid -villous; fruit greenish or yellowish 7. S. villosuit). 



Plants not viscid -villous; fruit black. 



Leaves sparingly strigose beneath; corolla 3 to 4 



mm. long; fruiting calyx spreading 5. $. intervus. 



Leaves densely strigose beneath; corolla 6 to 8 mm. 



long; fruiting calyx erect 6. S. douglasii. 



