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Small, five-cornered, with acuminate segments, 

 permanent: the corolla onerpetalled, wheel- 

 shaped : tube very short : border half-fire cleft, 

 large, plaited : segments wide, acute: the Ma- 

 mma have five filaments, awl-shaped, very 

 small, converging: anthers erect, o 

 the pistillum ia a roundish germ : style filiform, 

 generally longer than the stamens: stigma blunt: 

 the pericarpium is a subglobular berry, two- 

 ceiled, small, within a very large, inflated, 

 closed, five-cornered, coloured calyx : the re- 

 ceptacle kidney-form, doubled: the seeds very 

 many, kidney-form, compressed. 



The species are: 1. P. angulata, Tooth-leaved 

 Winter Cherry; 2. P. pubescens, Woolly Win- 

 ter Cherry ; 3. P. Alkektvgi, Common Win- 

 ter Cherry ; 4. P. Pensylvatiica, Pennsylvanian 

 Winter Cherry ; 5. P- viscosa, Clammy Win- 

 ter Cherry ; (3. P. somnifera, Clustered Winter 

 Cherry; ~. P.flexwsa, Flexuous Italian Winter 

 Cherrv; S. P. arborescens, Tree-like Physalis, or 

 Winter Cheny; p. V. Curassavka, Curassavian 

 Winter Cherry. 



The first has a staight stem, the thickness of 

 the little linger, about a foot high, three-corner- 

 ed below, four-cornered above, as are also the 

 branches, which come out obliquely from top to 

 bottom, in alternate order, and are thicker at 

 the base: the lower leaves wider and rounder 

 than those about the middle of the stem, and 

 these larger than those of the branches, deeply 

 toothed or jaaeed: the flowers five-cornered, of 

 an extremely pale yellow colour, with spots of a 

 darker yellow at the base. It is a native of both 

 the Indies, Sec. 



There is a variety which is taller, with entire 

 leaves, smaller flowers of a paler yellow colour. 



The second species branches out very wide 

 close to the ground, and the branches frequently 

 lie upon it; they are angular and lull of joints, 

 dividing again into smaller branches : the leaves 

 are on pretty long footstalks, about three inches 

 :id almost two broad, having several acute 

 indentures on their edges: the flowers pro- 

 ide of the branches upon short, 

 slender, nodding peduncles ; they are of an her- 

 . colour wish dark bottoms, and 

 are succeeded bv large, swelling bladders; of a 

 green, inclosing berries as large as com- 

 mon cherries, which are yellowish when ripe. 

 It flower- m July, and is a native of Virginia. 

 ■e both annual plan 



Tin- third has perennial roots, creeping to a 

 great distance : they shoot up many stalks in 

 the sprint: a toot high or more: the leaves of 

 . some angular and obtuse, others 

 oblong an -pointed, of a dark green, on 



long i talks : the flowers axillarv, on slender 



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peduncles, white, Appearing in July; the berry 

 round, the size of a small cherry, inclosed ill 

 the inflated calyx, which turns of a deep red in 

 the autumn. It is a native of the South of 

 pe, Sec. 

 The fourth species bis many procumbent 

 or erect stems, scarcely a foot in height, some- 

 w hat flexuose, roundish or obscurely angular on 

 the top, at the flowers branched, having an ob- 

 scure down scattercil over them : the leaves are 

 alternate, ovate, blunt, scrrate-repand, almost 

 n. iked above, obscurelv tomentose underneath, 

 next the flowers in pairs : the flowers axillary 

 on very short peduncles, larger than those (if 

 the common sort, anil of a p. ale vellow colour. 

 They are succeeded by very small yellowish 

 berries, which ripen in the autumn when the 

 season proves warm. It is a native of North 

 America, and flowers from July to September. 



The filth has a creeping root, sending up a 

 great number of smooth stalks, about a toot 

 high, dividing towards the top into small spread- 

 ing branches : the leaves heart-shaped or ovate, 

 about three inches long, and two broad near 

 their base, entire, rough to the touch, of a pale 

 yellowish green, alternate, on pretty long foot- 

 stalks : the flowers are towards the top, axillarv, 

 on long slender peduncles, of a dirty yellow 

 colour with purple bottoms. They appear in 

 June and July, and are succeeded by viscous 

 berries about the size of the common sort, of 

 an herbaceous yellow colour, inclosed in a 

 Iioht-srreen swelling bladder. It is a native of 

 America. 



The sixth species rises with a shrubby stalk, 

 near three feet high, dividing into several 

 branches which grow erect, and are covered 

 with a woolly down : the leaves ovate-lance- 

 olate, almost three inches long, and an inch 

 and a half broad in the middle, downy, and on 

 short petioles : the flowers small, of an herba- 

 ceous white colour, sitting verv close to the 

 branches, and succeeded by small berries nearly 

 of the same size as the common winter cherry, 

 and red when ripe. It is a native of Spam. 

 Sicily, 8cc, flowering in Julv ami August. 



The seventh rises to the height of five or 

 feet, sending out long flexuose branches covered 

 with a grav bark : the leaves oblong-ovate, 

 often placed opposite, sometimes by threi s 

 round the branches, to which they sit close: 

 the Bowers in clusters at the base of the petiole . 

 small, of an herbaceous yellow colour: tin v 

 arc succeeded bv round purplish berries having 

 ten cells, each including one seed. It flowers 

 in July ami . but not unless the season 



IS warm. It is a native of the East Indies. 



The eighth species has a shrubbv stalk, 

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