﻿The ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket— XV 



SOLANACEAE 

 Physalodes physalodes (L.) Britton. 



Nicandra physalodes (L.) Pers. 



Waste lots and yards on the eastern side of the town. Still in 

 full flower late in September, 1899. At Edgartown, Martha's 

 Vineyard, I have seen it in bloom as early as July i and as late as 

 October 12. 



^Physalis e 



[ETEROPHYLL 



,A Nees. 



Siasconse 



t, a few ste 



rile plants in a mowed field, September 



16, 1899. 







*=Physalis p 



ruinosa L. 





In waste 



ground, sea 



rce, and undoubtedly introduced. Mrs. 



collected by her 

 August 25, 1904, in early bloom, and October 2, 1902, in flower and 

 fruit. On Martha's Vineyard and on Chappaquiddick Island, it 

 is frequent as a garden weed and in soil that has been under 

 cultivation, but I saw it nowhere in surroundings that at all 

 conveyed the suggestion that it might be indigenous. Identifica- 

 tion of this and the foregoing species confirmed by Dr. Rydberg. 

 Note. — Mr. Floyd has informed me that Mr. Dame, in a letter 

 to Mrs. Owen, reported that Physalis peruviana L. had appeared 

 at Gibb's swamp in several flourishing colonies in 1895, after an 

 extensive brush fire. No specimens are known to have been 

 preserved. 



SOLANUM NIGRUM L. 



Frequent by street sides and in waste places in and near the 

 town and occasional in other parts of the island ; sometimes in the 

 rubbish back of pond shores. Plants very small June 17, 1910, 

 first flowers June 27; remains in flower through September. 

 Common on Martha's Vineyard. 

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