POTATO FAMILY. Solanaceae. 



lands, reaching an altitude of six thousand feet. It is used 

 as a narcotic by the Indians and resembles D. stramonium, 

 Jimson-weed, from Asia, common in the East and found 

 also in the West, but it is far handsomer. D. suaveolens, 

 Floriponda or Angels' Trumpets, is a large shrub, with very 

 large, pendulous, creamy flowers, and is often cultivated 

 in the old mission gardens in California. The flowers aie 

 very fragrant at night. 



There are many kinds of Physalis, most of them Ameri- 

 can, difficult to distinguish; herbs, often slightly woody 

 below; flowers whitish or yellowish; corolla more or less 

 bell-shaped, with a plaited border; style slender, somewhat 

 bent, with a minutely two-cleft stigma. In fruit the calyx 

 becomes large and inflated, papery, angled and ribbed, 

 wholly enclosing the pulpy berry, which contains numerous, 

 flat, kidney-shaped seeds. The name is from the Greek, 

 meaning "bladder," and refers to the inflated calyx, and 

 the common names, Ground-cherry and Strawberry- 

 tomato, are suggested by the fruit, which is juicy, often 

 red or yellow, and in some kinds is edible. 



A pretty, delicate, desert plant, from 

 Ground-cherry 



Physalis S1X to ei g nt inches high, with branching 



crassifblia stems and light green leaves. It is 



Yellow sprinkled with pretty cream-yellow 



Southwest flowers, which are not spotted or dark in 



the center, with yellow anthers, and is hung with odd little 

 green globes, each about three-quarters of an inch long, 

 which are the inflated calyxes containing the berries. 



A straggling perennial plant, about a 

 Bladder-cherry . . . . , . .. , , , . 



Phsyalis Fendleri foot hl g h Wlth widely-branching, rough- 

 Yellow ish stems, springing from a deep tuberous 

 Summer root. The leaves are dull green, roughish, 

 Ariz., Utah rather coarse in texture, but not large, 

 mostly less than an inch long, coarsely and irregularly 

 toothed, and the flowers are the shape of a shallow Morn- 

 ing-glory, half an inch across, pale dull-yellow, marked 

 with brown inside, with yellow anthers. This does nc 

 bear its berries close to the ground, as do many of i1 

 relations, and is not pretty. It grows in dry places, reac 

 ing an altitude of eight thousand feet. 



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