Vol. III.] 



POTATO FAMILY. 



3. Physalis Barbadensis Jacq. Barbadoes Ground- Cher ry 

 Physalis Barbadensis Jacq. Misc. 2: 359. 1781. 



Stem stouter than in P. pubesccns, tall and erect or 

 widely spreading, acutely 3-4- angled, pubescent, 

 viscid, or sometimes nearly glabrous; leaves \ l /i f ~ 

 iy 2 ' long, ovate or heart-shaped, acute, or abruptly 

 acuminate, sharply repand-dentate, pubescent with 

 short hairs; peduncles short, i^ // -2 // long, but in 

 fruit sometimes io // ; calyx generally densely viscid- 

 hirsute, lobes lanceolate, acuminate, but not subu- 

 late-tipped; corolla 2^ // -5 // in diameter; anthers 

 generally purplish; fruiting calyx longer than in 

 the two preceding species, i / -i^ / long, acuminate 

 and reticulate, retuse at the base. 



Sandy soil, North Carolina, southern Illinois and 

 Mexico, the West Indies and South America. July-Sept. 



Physalis Barbadensis obscura (Michx. ) Rydberg, Mem. 

 Torr. Club. 4: 327. 1896. 

 Physalis obscura Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 149. 1803. 



Greener; perfectly glabrous, or sometimes minutely 

 pubescent, when it grades into P. Barbadensis proper. 

 The distribution is about the same as that of the species. 



4. Physalis Lagascae R. 

 flowered Ground-Cherry. 



& S. Small- 

 (Fig. 3193.) 



Physalis Lagascae R. & S. Syst. Veg. 4: 679. 1819. 

 P. minima Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1: 563. 1820. Not L. 1753. 



Stem spreading, often zigzag, branched, stri- 

 ate, or slightly angled, villous with short hairs. 

 Leaves y^'s}^' long, ovate, oblique and cuneate, 

 obtuse, or cordate at the base, acute but not 

 acuminate, repandor sinuately dentate, hairy, at 

 least on the veins; peduncles }i // -2 l /2 // long, 

 erect, in fruit 2^ // -5 // refiexed, shorter than the 

 fruiting calyx; calyx villous, lobes shorter than 

 the tube, triangular; corolla i - ^ // -4 // in dia- 

 meter, yellow, generally with a dark centre, an- 

 thers generally yellow; fruiting calyx 7 // -io // 

 long, round-ovoid, nearly filled by the berry, 

 scarcely sunken or commonly rounded at the 

 base. 



Native of Mexico, the West and Fast Indies; per- 

 haps only introduced in the United States. Mis- 

 souri and Kansas to Arkansas and Indian Territory. 

 July-Sept. 



5. Physalis lanceifolia Nees. Lance- 

 leaved Ground- Cherry. (Fig. 3194.) 



Physalis lanceifolia Nees, I,innaea, 6: 473. 1831. 



P. angulata Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. 2: 43. 1799. Not 



L. 1753- 



Erect,generally i}4 high, branched; stem angled, 

 glabrous; leaves in the typical form lanceolate, sub- 

 entire or slightly toothed; calyx cylindrical-cam- 

 panulate, its lobes broadly triangular, shorter than 

 the tube; peduncles filiform, about i / long, erect 

 with nodding flower, in fruit l% / -2 / long and re- 

 flexed; corolla 3 // -4 // in diameter, campanulate, 

 yellow, without a dark spot; anthers yellow, more 

 or less tinged with purple; fruiting calyx about io // 

 long, rounded ovoid, indistinctly 10-angled and 

 purple veined, nearly filled by the berry. 



Illinois to Texas, California and southward. Also in 

 Mexico and Peru. In the eastern plant the leaves are 

 broader than in the typical form, and sometimes with 

 sharper teeth. July-Sept. 



