PHYSIANTHUS 1321 



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The Mexican forms are confused. 



BB. Stents pubescent or hairy. 

 pub^scens, Linn. Strawberry Tomato of vegetable 

 parilfiis. Dwarf Cape Gooseberry. Husk Tomato. 

 (iKoiND Cherry. Fig. 1775. Low, trailing flat on the 

 ground, or sometimes ascending to the height of a foot: 

 Ivs. ratht-r thin ami nearly smooth, more or less regu- 

 larly and prominently notched with blunt teeth: fls. 

 small (I's in. or less long), bell-shaped, the limb or border 

 erect and whitish yellow, the throat marked with 5 large 

 brown spots; anthers yellow: husk smooth or nearly so, 

 thin and paper-like, prominently 5-angled and somewhat 

 larger than the small, yellow, sweetish and not glutinous 

 fruit. N. Y. to the tropics. -The plant is very prolific, 

 and the fruits are considerably earlier than in the other 

 species. When ripe the fruits fall, and if the season is 

 ordinarily dry they will often keep in good condition 

 upon the ground for 3 or 4 weeks. The fruits will keep 

 nearly all winter if put away in the husks in a dry 

 chamber. They are sweet and pleasant, with a little 

 acid, and they are considerably used for preserves, and 

 sometimes for sauce. The plant is worthy a place in 

 every honte garden. It is grown more or less by small 

 ganli-ners near the lare-e cities, and tlic fruits are often 



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PHYSIANTHUS (Cr ek 11 II 



larL'.- ii.Hc.wnl ..t _t..,i,mI l..r i:^ . , li u,,od soil 



it will -.|iivMd 4 f.-t HI ;ill .lir. rii.,,,- ,i ,„.. I,r;,dedin. 

 The plants are set in n«ys 3 or 4 feet apart and 2 or 3 

 feet apart in the row. This Fhysalis has been long in 

 cultivation. It was figured by Dillenius in 1774, in his 

 account of the plants growing in Dr. Sherard's garden 

 at Eltham, En_-'-.r.' Ti> 1>1 i; it ivn - f-.,r. 1 l.v.Tacquin, 

 and hyliin. r;,p, n /•' • /,•.'-' , .:, i , tl,,. island 



of Bai-bail... . lie into 



cnltiyatioii. Ii, ; ,. I : , , un.lerthe 



name of Hail-n. |. - ~ Win-.i ■ i,.irv. it /'"v hsBarba- 

 (h'lixis, and says tliat it is a luitiv;. of Harlia.loes. None 

 of tlu'se iiuthiirs say anything about its culinary uses. 

 Dunal, in 18.")2, described it as var. Barbudensis of 

 JViilsdIis Jiir.iidn, but later botanists unite Dunal's 

 P. hirsntn with Linnieus' P. piibescciis, of which this 

 common Husk Tomato is but a cultivated form. 



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Peruviina, Linn. (P. ^dttlis. Sims). Cape Goose- 

 BF.KKV. Fig. 177B. As compared with P. pubescens, 

 this is a much stronger grower, the plant standing par- 

 tially erect and attaining a height of l}^-3 ft.: Ivs. 

 thicker, less regularly toothed, more pointed, heart- 

 shaped at the base, and very pubescent or fuzzy: fls. 



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be flowtrt 1 i pot but tl t border of tl e greenl ou e 

 s better 



There are about 13 species of Araujia, all with oppo- 

 site Ivs. and whitish or rosy fls. : corolla-tube short or 

 long, inflated at the base; lobes 5, very wide or narrow, 

 overlapping toward the right in the bud; crown with 



