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■small, fiTC-cornerod, with acuminate segment?, 

 permaiu'nt : the corolla oue-pctallcd, wheel- 

 shaped : tube very short : border half-five-clcl't, 

 lavae, plaited : segments wide, acute : the sta- 

 mina have five lilamcnts, awl-shapcd, very 

 sfnall, converging: anthers erect, converging ; 

 the pistiilum is a roundish germ : style filiForm, 

 generally loni;erthan the stamens: stigma blunt: 

 the periearpinm is a subglobular berry, two- 

 celled, 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. angidatn, Tooth-leaved 

 Winter Cherry; 2. P. pulescens. Woolly Win- 

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

 ter Cherry ; 4. P. Pensylvanica, Fennsylvanian 

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

 ter Cherry ; 6. P. soniJiifera, Clustered Winter 

 Cherry; 7. P.^fx«o5«, Flexuous Italian Winter 

 Cherry; 8. P. ar^ore.?ce;;.y, Tree-like Physalis, or 

 Winter Cherr)'; (J. P. Curassavica, Curassavian 

 Winter Chtrrv. 



The lirst has a staight stem, the thickness of 

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

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

 bn-anches, 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 vvhich 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 full of joints, 

 dividing again into smaller branches : the leaves 

 arc on pretty long footstalks, about three inches 

 long and almost two broad, having several acute 

 indentures on their edges : the flowers pro- 

 duced on the side of the branches upon short, 

 slender, nodding peduncles; they are of an her- 

 baceotis yellow colour with dark bottoms, and 

 are succeeded by large, swelling bladders; of a 

 light green, inclosing berries as large as com- 

 mon cherries, which are yellowish when ripe. 

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



These are both annual plants. 



The third has perennial roots, creeping to a 

 iireat distance : they shoot up many stalks in 

 the spring a loot high or more : the leaves of 

 vuious sliapes, some angular and obtuse, others 

 oblong and acute-pointid, of a dark green, on 

 long footstalks : the flowers axillary, on slender 



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peduncles, white, appearing in July ; the berry 

 rouiid, the size of a small cherry, inclosed 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, some- 

 what flexuose, roundish or obscurely angular on 

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

 scure down scattered over them : the leaves are 

 alternate, ovale, blunt, scrrate-repand, almost 

 naked above, obscurely tomentose underneath, 

 next the flowers in jiairs : the flowers axillary 

 on very short peduncles, larger than those of 

 the common sort, and of a pale yellow colour. 

 They arc 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 fifth has a creeping root, sending up a 

 great number of smooth stalks, about a foot 

 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, rougTi to the touch, of a pale 

 yellowish green, alternate, on pretty long foot- 

 stalks : the flowers are towards the top, axillary, 

 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 

 light-green 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 w oolly 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 very 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 natix-fe of Spain, 

 Sicily, &c., flowering in July and August. 



The seventh rises to the height of five or six 

 feet, sending out long flexuose branches covered 

 with a gray bark : the leaves oblong-ovate, 

 often placed opposite, sometimes by threes 

 round the branches, to which they sit close : 

 the flowers in clusters at the base of the petioles, 

 small, of an herbaceous yellow colour: they 

 are succeeded by round purplish berries having 

 ten cells, each including one seed. It flowers 

 in July and August, but not unless the season 

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



The eighth species has a shrubby stalk, 

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