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The var. nyctaginea (Dunal) Rydb. (like the Four- 

 o'clock) is rare: Windsor, shaded alluvial soil on bank of the 

 Connecticut River (Bissell). 



Physalis subglabrata Mackenzie & Bush (nearly smooth). 

 Phy sails philadelphica Gray's Manual ed. 6, perhaps not Lam. 



Rare. Waste grounds, roadsides and fields : East Windsor 

 and Norwalk (Bissell), Bridgeport (Eames), Waterbury 

 (A. E. Blewitt), New Milford (Eames & E. H. Austin), 

 Salisbury (Mrs. C. S. Phelps). July — Sept. 



Sometimes cultivated for its edible fruit. 



Physalis virginiana Mill. 



Physalis lanceolata Gray's Manual ed. 6 in part, not Michx. 

 Rare. Dry or moist fields: Southington (Andrews), 

 Southbury (Harger). June — Aug. 



NICANDRA Adans. Apple of Peru. 



Nicandra physalodes (L.) Pers. (like Physalis, the Ground 



Cherry) . 

 Physalodes physalodes Britton. 

 Apple of Peru. 



Rare. Waste ground and cultivated fields : Norwich (Mrs. 

 E. E. Rogers), Southington (Andrews), New Haven (O. 

 Harger), Waterbury (H. S. Clark), Oxford and Ansonia 

 (Harger), Bridgeport and Norwalk (Eames), Winchester 

 (A. E. Blewitt), Norfolk (H. S. Clark & Bissell). July — 

 Sept. Adventive from Peru. 



LYCIUM L. Matrimony Vine. 



Lycium halimifolium Mill, (having leaves like Atriplex Hali- 



mus, the Orach). 

 Lycium vulgare Dunal. 

 Common Matrimony Vine. 



Rare or local. Roadsides and about old houses. May — 

 Sept. ; fruit Aug. — Oct. Adventive from Europe. 



DATURA L. Jamestown or Jimson Weed. Thorn x\pple. 



Datura Stramonium L. (old name for this species). 

 Stramonium. Jimson Weed. Thorn Apple. 



