710 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Phy sails angulata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 183. 1753. 



Physalis linkiana Nees, Liunaea, 6 : 471. 1831. 



P. angulata var. linkiana Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 234. 1878. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 278. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 375. Chap. Fl. &51. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:300. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL, PERU. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Illinois to Missouri and Arkansas; 

 North Carolina to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA : Over the State. Borders of pastures, fields. Clay County, Dempsey, 

 1,000 feet altitude. Lee County, Auburn (Earle). Franklin County, Russellville. 

 Calhoun and Mobile counties. Flowers dingy yellow ; August to October. Berry 

 greenish yellow. Common ; an abundant weed in the Lower Pine region. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in India utraque." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Physalis virginiana Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8,. no. 4, t. 138. 1768. 



VIRGINIA GROUND CHERRY. 



Physalis lanceolata Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 4 : 673. 1824. 



P. pennsylvanica Gray, Man. ed. 5, 382. 1867. Not L. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 375, mainly. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:301, under P. lan- 

 ceolata. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario to Manitoba ; New York west to Michi- 

 gan, Kansas, and Colorado, south to Florida, Texas, and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. In rich soil, exposed places, open copses, borders of 

 fields and woods. Winston County, Colliers Creek, 1,500 feet altitude the specimens 

 roughish-pubescent by short, flat, somewhat recurved hairs, particularly along the 

 angles of the stems and branches, and on the margins of the leaves. Tuscaloosa 

 County (E. A. Smith), specimens responding to the typical form; of yellowish hue, 

 vilious-pubescent, the broader leaves obtusely sinuate-dentate. Lee County, Auburn. 

 (Earle), a form very similar to the plant from Winston County. Autanga County, 

 Prattville, very low-branched from the decumbent base, else like the typical form. 

 Clarke County, Thomasville. Mobile County, narrow-leaved forms of a darker green, 

 the leaves from 1 to 1 inches long, f to scarcely over inch wide, more or l.-ss pube- 

 scent, but less so than the type, corolla lemon-yellow, fuscous in the center, anthers 

 yellow. Frequent, widely diffused, and variable; the typical form in richer soil. 



Type locality : " The seeds * * were sent me from Philadelphia by Dr. Ben- 

 sil, who found the plants growing there naturally." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Physalis virginiana intermedia Rydberg, Mem. Torr. Club, 4 : 345. 1896. 



Perennial from a stout rootstock; stem slightly angled, slender, 8 to 10 inches 

 high, sparsely hairy; leaves membranaceons, dark green, almost glabrous, ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, rather obtuse, tapering into a winged petiole, entire or slightly 

 sinuate. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Indiana and Mississippi to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Upper division Coast Pine belt. Shaded copses. Clarke County, 

 Thomasville. Hale County, Gallion. Flowers pale yellow, purplish in the center; 

 April, June. Not frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Southern States : S. B. Buckley (type)." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Physalis ciliosa Rydberg, Mem. Torr. Club, 4:346. 1896. 



CILIATE GROUND CHERRY. 



Perennial from a slender creeping rootstock, erect, branched, 8 to 10 inches high, 

 stem terete, like the pedicels and calyx lobes ciliate with long jointed hairs, leaves 

 1 to 2 inches long, ovate, truncate or slightly cordate at the base, subentire, 

 sparsely hairy on the "veins, thin; peduncles very slender, fruiting calyx ovoid- 

 pyramidal, sunken at the base. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. 



ALABAMA : Upper division of Coast Pine belt. Borders of woods. Clarke County, 

 Thomasville. Flowers yellow, faintly darker in the throat; April. Rare; only 

 locality known in the State. 



Type locality : "Florida: Chapman." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Physalis arenicola T. H. Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:485. 1894. 



Perennial, branched from the rootstock ; branches erect, slender, pubescent with 

 simple hairs; leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, irregularly angulate, or angulate-den- 

 tate, obtuse, unequal at the base, appressed ciliate; flowers on slender pubescent 

 pedicels as long as or longer than the petioles ; calyx pubescent ; corolla light yellow 



