712 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



MEXICO TO BRAZIL, ARGENTINA. 



Louisianian area. Seashore from Virginia to Florida, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. Dry gravelly banks of Mobile River, Mobile and Ohio 

 Railroad wharf. To all appearance adventive with ballast. Observed from 1890 

 up to 1897, when the locality was covered with buildings. Flowers pale yellow, 

 with a brownish center; June to October. Berries clammy yellow. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia. Bonaria." 



Herb. Mohr. 



Physalis viscosa maritima (Curtis) Rydberg, Mem. Torr. Club, 4 : 357. 1897. 



SEASIDE STELLATE GROUND CHERRY. 



Phyaalis maritima Curtis, Am. Journ. Sci. ser. 2, 7 : 407. 1849. 



P. viscosa spathulaefolia Gray, Syn. PI. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 236. 1878. 



Gray, 1. c. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 301. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Sands on the seashore. Baldwin County, eastern 

 shore Mobile Bay near Point Clear, July, 1881 ; very rare. Collected also at Spring- 

 hill near the hotel, in sandy pine uplands, more than 30 miles distant from the sea- 

 shore, August 8, 1897. Perennial. 



Our specimens agree perfectly with the type duplicate of Curtis from the Riddel- 

 lian herb, in Herb. Mohr. Readily distinguished by the closer and denser pubes- 

 cence and the oblong spathulate leaves gradually tapering into the petiole, of a firmer 

 texture. Peduncles about 1 inch long, like the calyx more densely pubescent than 

 in the type; corolla larger, i to f inch wide. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Sandy seashore of North Carolina, and occasionally a few miles 

 in the interior." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Physalis fuscomaculata De Rouville ; Dunal, in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 1 : 437. 1852. 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



ALABAMA : Fugitive on ballast, Mobile County. Corolla dingy yellow with dark 

 spot in the center; anthers yellow. 



Perennial from a stout simple rootstock, decumbent or ascending. Stems terete 

 with decurrent ridges, a little pruinose stellate-pubescent ; leaves 2 to 3 inches long, 

 1 to 1 inches wide, ovate, entire or repand, somewhat oblique at the base, the upper 

 often opposite; petioles f to 1 inch long; peduncles as long as or longer than the 

 petioles; calyx pruinose on the margins, stellate- ciliate ; lobes triangular, shorter 

 than the tube (Rydberg). 



Varies greatly in size and form of the leaves, which on vigorous stems are 3 to 4 

 inches long and fully 2 inches wide, obtusely repand or sinuate dentate, sparsely 

 pruinose by the very short stellate hairs. Easily distinguished by the dark green 

 color of the leaves, the pubescence, and the low branching habit from P. viscosa. 



This interesting waif from the La Plata River country associated with Verbena 

 bonariensis, from the same region, has held its own, confined to a single spot, for the 

 past dozen years without spreading. 



Type locality : "E Buenos Ay res? cum lanis allata ad portem Juvenalem prope 

 montem Pessulanum legit cl. Touchy." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Physalis angustifolia Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7 : 113. 1834. 



NARROW-LEAF SEASIDE GROUND CHERRY. 



Gray, Syn. PL N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 236. Chap. PL 350. 



Louisianian area. Seashore of Florida to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sand, shores of Mobile Bay and the Gulf. 

 Flowers May, June; corolla yellow, purplish in the center, anthers yellow. Fruit 

 ripe July, August; berries deep orange, the creeping base of the stems deeply buried 

 in the sand. Perennial. 



Type locality : " West Florida, probably on the sandy coast, N. A. Ware, Esq." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SOLANUM L. Sp. PL 1 : 184. 1753. 



About 900 species, herbaceous and woody perennials and annuals of warmer tem- 

 perate and tropical regions. 



Solanum nigrum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 186. 1753. COMMON NIGHTSHADE. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 280. Gray, Man, ed. 6, 374. Chap. PL 348. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:297. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1:583. 



COSMOPOLITAN IN TEMPERATE AND WARMER REGIONS. 



