' BOTANY, 153 
1604 of Wright's Collection. The stem is 12—18 inches long, prostrate, and much branched. 
The leaves vary from coarsely sinuate-toothed to nearly entire. Flowers solitary, on pedicels 
which are much longer than the petioles. Corolla campanulate-rotate, purple, half an inch or 
more in diameter. Fructiferous calyx nearly as broad as long and much larger than the berry. 
Seeds irregular in outline, less compressed, and thicker on the edge than is usual in this genus; 
the testa cellular and spongy. · 
PHYSALIS PUMILA, Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (n. ser.) 5, p. 193; Var. ? Sonora: glabra, 
foliis lanceolatis integris. Fronteras, Sonora; June, Thurber. About а foot high, apparently 
erect, branching towards the summit Leaves solitary, 2—3 inches long, and 5-7 lines wide, 
attenuated at the base into a petiole. Flowers solitary, on pedicels which are shorter than the 
petioles. Segments of the calyx as long as the 7 triangular-lanceolate, acute. Corolla cam- 
panulate, yellowish, immaculate. 
PHYSALIS LANCEOLATA , Micha. Var.? SPATHULÆFOLIA : prostrata dichotome ramosa minute pubes- 
cens; foliis spathulatis vel oblongo-spathulatis obtusis basi attenuatis solitariis vel geminis ; 
pedunculis solitariis petiolo sublongioribus erectis ; calycibus campanulatis dentibus tubo duplo 
brevioribus ; corolla rotato-campanulata purpureo-maculata, Оп the sea beach near the mouth of 
the Rio Grande, May ; Schott. We have a viscidly stellate-pubescent form, collected by Drum- 
mond in southern Texas, probably on the shore of the Gulf. 
PHYSALIS LoNGIFOLIA, Nutt. l. c.? ; Dunal, l. c... Alluvions of the Rio Grande, 35 miles below 
San Elceario, and near the Copper Mines, June—July ; Bigelow. Lower Rio Grande ; Schott. We 
have also specimens collected by Lieut. Abert, on the upper Canadian, in 1846. Our plant 
E differs from the descriptions given by Nuttall and Dunal in scarcely any respect except the nar- 
N rower leaves. We have, however, only the upper part of the plant, on which the leaves 
= (including the petiole) are rather oblong-lanceolate than ovate-lanceolate. Some of them are 
x about 4 inches long. The root, according to Nuttall, is perennial. 
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PHYSALIS ALKEKENGI 8 DIGITALIFOLIA, Dunal, l. c. p. 438. Along the Rio Mimbres, New 
сз Mexico, May; Thurber. Near the Copper Mines; Bigelow. Sierra del Pajarito, Sonora; 
Schott. Probably, as Dunal suspects, a distinct species. 
PHYSALIS MOLLIS, Nutt. l. с. Western Texas, and near the aes Mines; Thurber. Nos. -- 
1599 and 1600, Wright, seem to be only forms of this species; and 1597 a мек form of 
the same. We have also specimens collected near Monterey. Flowers dull yellow, with dark 
purple spots at the base. It is near the preceding species. 
PHYSALIS CARDIOPHYLLA (n. sp ): perennis; caule petiolisque minute puberulis ; foliis plerumque 
solitariis late cordatis grosse sinuato-dentatis longe petiolatis glabriusculis utrinque viridibus ; 
pedicellis petiolo longioribus ; calyce campanulato, dentibus tubo dimidio brevioribus ; corolla 
Б (lutea) infundibuliformi-rotata immaculata. Sonora, and California, desert of the Colorado ; 
Et flowers throughout the season; Schott. Stem 12-18 inches long, branching from the root, 
: ascending or prostrate. Leaves j-1j inch long, and nearly as broad as long, slightly succu- 
lent, sometimes nearly entire; the petiole about as long as the lamina. Pedicels mostly longer 
than the petioles. Calyx 2 lines long, the teeth triangular: and acute. Corolla half an inch in 
diameter. Anthers equal, yellow. Fructiferous calyx ovate, an inch and a quarter long. Fruit 
the size of a small cherry. Seeds orbicular-reniform, much compressed, with a nearly even 
testa. 
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