JJH 381 



arborescens, Tree- like Physalis, or Winter Cherry; 9- P- Curassavica, 

 Curassavian Winter Cherry. 



The first has a straight stem, the thickness of the liltle finger, 

 about a foot high, three-cornered below, four-cornered above, as arc 

 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 jagged: 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, &c. 

 There is a variety which is taller, with entire leaves, smal lei- 

 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 full 

 of joints, dividing again into smaller branches : the leaves are on 

 pretty long footstalks, about three inches long and almost two broad, 

 having several acute indentures on their edges: the flowers produced 

 on the side of the branches upon short, slender, nodding peduncles; 

 they are of an herbaceous yellow colour with dark bottoms, and are 

 succeeded by large, swelling bladders, of a light green, inclosing 

 berries as large as common cherries, which are yellowish when ripe. 

 It flowers in July, and is a native of Virginia. 

 These are both annual plants. 



The third has perennial roots, creeping to a great distance: they 

 shoot up many stalks in the spring a foot high or more: the leaves 

 of various shapes, some angular and obluse, others oblong and 

 acute-pointed, of a dark green, on long footstalks: the flowers axil- 

 lary, on slender peduncles, white, appearing in July; the berry 

 round, the size of a small cherry, enclosed in the inflated calyx, 

 which turns of a deep red in the autumn. It is a native of the 

 South of Europe, &c. 



The fourth species has many procumbent or erect stems, scarcely 

 a foot in height, somewhat flexuose, roundish, or obscurely angular 

 on the top, at the flowers branched, having an obscure down scat- 

 tered over them: the leaves are alternate, ovate, blunt, serrate- 



