498 SOLANACE SOLANUM 
PHYSALIS 
root: flowering branches mostly short and leafy: leaves commonly oblong. 
to obovate, obtuse, rarely ovate and acute, entire, halfinch to 2 inches 
long, more or less acute or narrowed at base, or the lower and larger ones 
rounded, on short petioles ; flowers in short-peduncled few-several-flowered 
umbels: calyx-lobes about 2 lines long in flower, ovate, obtuse: corolla 8-10 
lines broad, blue to white, angulately 5-lobed, widely rotate: anthers ob- 
tuse, the cells opening by a short vertical slit at the apex, which extends 
downward to the base: berries purple, the base covered by the appressed 
moderately enlarged calyx. On stony hillsides, southern Oregon to Calif. 
S. sisympBrirotiuom Lam. Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii, 49. Villous-pu - 
bescent with simple more or less glandular and viscid hairs, mixed on the 
leaves with some few-rayed stellate ones; much armed even to the calyx 
with long subulate straight prickles: stem stout, 2-3 feet high, branching: 
leaves deeply pinnatifid and the oblong lobes sinuate or even again some- 
what pinnatifid: flowers several or numerous, in terminal or soon lateral 
pedunculate racemes; lobes of the 5-parted calyx lanceolate, becoming 
ovate-lanceolate and at length loosely and completely or incompletely coy- 
ering the globose red berry : corolla light blue or white, 1-2 inches broad, 
5-lobed: anthers lanceolate. On ballast grounds at Portland Oregon. 
2 PHYSALIS L. Gen. n. 250. (GROUND CHERRY) 
Annual or perennial herbs with entire or sinuately-toothed 
leaves and yellow or white flowers on axillary and solitary ped- 
uncles. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, in fruit enlarged and 
bladderly-inflated, membranaceous, 5-angled, or prominently 10- 
ribbed and reticulated, wholly inclosing the pulpy berry, its teeth 
mostly connivent. Corolla rotate or rotate-campanulate, plicate in 
the bud, 5-angulate or obscurely 5-lobed. Stamens inserted near 
the base of the corolla: anthers oblong, longer than their filaments, 
not connivent, opening by alongitudinal slit. Style slender, some- 
what bent; stigma 2-cleft. Seeds numerous, kidney-shaped, flat- 
tened, with a thin edge, finely pitted. is 
P. ixocarpa Brot. Hornem. Hofn. Supp. 26. A little hairy or pu- 
bescent when young: stem erect, much branched, 1-2 feet high from an 
annual root: leaves ovate or oblong, repand or sinuate-toothed or entire, 
1-2 inches long or rarely longer, on ion and slender petioles: pedicels only 
1-3 lines long: calyx-lobes short, broadly triangular, shorter than the tube: 
corolla bright yellow with purple throat; 6-12 lines broad: fruiting calyx 
rounded-ovoid, obscurely 10-angled, often purple-veined, at last often filled 
with the berry which sometimes bursts it. Native of Mexico: escaped 
from cultivation in eastern Washington. 
P. pruinosus L. Sp. 184. Villous or pubescent with simple viscid. 
hairs: stem stout, from an annual root, 1-2 feet high, with at length wide- 
ly spreading branches, obtusely angled: leaves firm, 2-5 inches long, ovate- 
ograste: generally very oblique at the base and deeply sinuate-toothed 
with broad and often obtuse teeth: peduncles 1-2 lines long, in fruit about 
6 lines long: calyx villous or viscid, the lobes as long as the tube, narrow- 
but not sibolate-tibned = corolla 2-5 lines broad, dull yellow with purplish- 
brown eye: anthers yellow or violet: fruiting calyx 12-18 lines long, ovoid, 
cordate at base, reticulated; berry yellow or green. Eastern Washington. 
Probably introduced from the Southern States. 
P. lanceolata Michx. Fl. i, 149. Sparingly hirsute with flat hairs: 
stems at first erect, later spreading or diffuse, only slightly angled, about 
18 inches long from a slender creeping perennial rootstock: leaves broadly 
oblanceolate or spatulate, tapering into the petiole, acute or obtuse, nearly 
