572 CONTRIBUTIONS TROM 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 

 pubescence, flowers, and fruit are the same. 



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

 Phy salts 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: G5. 1874. 

 Physalis digitali/olia Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 288. 1895. 

 Physalis palmeri A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2': 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. PhysaUs 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 Cruces; Gray. 

 Hills and plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



8. SOLANTJM 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 adnata 

 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. 



Flowers wHte; leaflets mostly lanceolate 2. S. jamesii. 



Flowers purplish; leaflets elliptic to ovate 3. S. fendleri. 



Ailnuals. 



Leaves pinnatifid ' 4. S. triflorum. 



Leaves sinuate-dentate or entire. 



Plants viscid- villous; fruit greenish or yellowish 



Plants not viscid-villous; fruit black. 



Leaves sparingly strigose beneath; corolla 3 to 4 



mm. long; fruiting calyx spreading 



Leaves densely strigose beneath; corolla 6 to 8 mm. 

 long; fruiting calyx erect 



