NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. 



with a brown-purple spot in the center; anthers yellow; fruiting calyx ovate-pyram- 

 idal with the teeth much shorter than the tube; berry light yellow. 



Louisianian area. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt. Grassy pine barrens. Mobile County, Springhill 

 (Bush). July, August; perennial. 



Type locality : l 'Collected in light sandy soil along railroad embankments near 

 Eustis, Fla., in 1894, by Mr. George V. Nash." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Physalis heterophylla Nees, Linnaea, 6 : 463. 1831. Viscous GROUND CHERRY. 



Physalis viscosa Pursh, PI. Am. Sept. 1 : 157. 1814. 



P. virginiana Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 235. 1878. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 375. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1. c. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 324. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 300. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New Brunswick to Saskatchewan; Illinois to 

 Nebraska and Colorado, south to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Dry woods. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Flowers 

 yellow, brownish in the throat; anthers yellow. June; not infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America boreali. Herb. Willd., ad exemplum a Muehlen- 

 bergio missum. In collibus argillosis Pennsylvaniae Poeppig legit/' etc. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Physalis heterophylla nyctaginea (Dunal) Rydberg in Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 324. 1897. 



Physalis ofacura Torr. Fl. N. & Mid. U. S. 233. 1824. Not Michx. 



P. nyctaginea Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 1 : 440. 1852. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 3 : 131. 



Closely allied to Physalis heterophylla ambigna, from which it differs in the firmer, 

 almost silky -pubescent, more acuminate, dark-green leaves, and the shorter, more 

 acute lobes of the calyx. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Rhode Island to Iowa, south to Florida and 

 Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Lower Pine region. Dry sandy pine woods. Mobile County, Spring- 

 hill. Flowers July; infrequent. 



Type locality : " In America boreali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Physalis monticola sp. nov. MOUNTAIN GROUND CHERRY. 



Perennial from a horizontal rootstock. Stem 12 to 16 inches high, simple and 

 slightly strigose-pubescent below, assurgent; branches erect, becoming villous- 

 pubescent like the inflorescence by flat-jointed, not stellate, hairs; leaves oblong- 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, acutish, very oblique at the base, 

 decurrent on the narrowly wing-margined petiole, repand-toothed, or subentire, 

 ciliolate on the margin, the blade 1 to 2 inches long and f to 1J inches broad, 

 almost glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath, densely so along the midrib; 

 peduncle inch long, suberect and like the base of the calyx and margins of its lobes 

 villous-pubescent and more or less viscid; calyx lobes broadly lanceolate ; corolla 

 about f inch wide, dingy yellow, sordid purplish in the center; anthers pale yellow; 

 fruiting calyx ovoid, acuminate, deeply sunk at the base, obtusely angular; berry 

 yellowish geeen. 



Readily distinguished from the varieties of Physalis heterophylla, its nearest allies, 

 by the more slender habit of growth, the smoother stem, the almost glabrafce, more 

 membranaceous leaves, cuneate at the base, etc. June. Specimens just coming 

 into bloom, collected near Men tone in 1892, were by Mr. Rydberg pronounced to 

 belong probably to an undescribed species, the imperfect material, however, not 

 warranting a description. This opinion was confirmed by the perfect fruiting speci- 

 mens collected at the same locality in September, 183, which fully reveal the char- 

 acters of this apparently strictly local species. 



Carolinian area. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Borders of copses, exposed places, in gravelly or 

 rocky soil. Dekalb County, table-land of Lookout Mountain at Mentone, 1,800 feet 

 altitude, near Loring Spring Hotel. Flowers in June; fruit September 16 (1898). 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Physalis viscosa L. Sp. PL 1 : 183. 1753. STELLATE GROUND CHERRY. 



Physalis pennsylvanica L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 1670. 1763. 



P. tomentosa Walt. Fl. Car. 99. 1788. Not Medic. 



P. walteri Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7 : 112. 1834. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 376. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 324. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 301. Gray, 

 Syn.Fl.N.A.2,pt.l: 236. 



