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Michaux describes also P. obscura viscido-pubescens, which must 
be P. Barbadensis Jacq. or perhaps P. pruinosa. 
What P. lanceolata Michx.* is, is hard to determine. It 
should be a perennial species from North Carolina, with lanceo- 
late, subentire and subsessile leaves and hirsute calyx. No spe- 
cies has, as a rule, subsessile leaves, but the other characters fit 
two different plants. One is a rare plant from the Southern 
States, Florida, Alabama, etc. It has thin subentire leaves, but 
otherwise resembles most P. Virgimana, but with the pubescence 
of the stem somewhat viscid, and in this respect approaches 7* et- 
erophylla Nees. The other one, for which I adopt the name P. 
lanceolata, resembles much P. pumila Nutt.f (P. lanceolata hirta 
Grayt), except that it lacks the branching of the hairs on the 
lower surface of the leaves. It differs from P. Virginiana Miller 
(P. Pennsylvanica Gray§ and P. lanceolata Gray || mainly, as to the 
description) in the fruit, which is greenish yellow, not reddish; in 
the fruiting calyx, which is scarcely angled and scarcely sunken at 
all at the base; and in the leaves, which are thicker, dark green, and 
with entire margins. Although Dr. Gray rather describes P. Vir- 
giniana in his Synoptical Flora, he evidently regarded this form 
as the typical P. /anceolata Michx., as he names it in his Manual, 
5th edition, P. Pennsylvanica lanceolata®. At first I doubted very 
much that it was the true P. lanceolata Michx., as it is mainly a 
western species, principally found west of Mississippi, but I found 
afterwards specimens collected by Ravenel in both North and 
South Carolina. 
Physalis lanceolata, as treated by Gray in the Synoptical Flora, 
comprises with its varieties not less than six, or perhaps rather 
seven, distinct species, viz.: i 
1. P. Virginiana Mill (P. Pennsylvanica Gray, Man., 5th edition, 
and P. lanceolata Gray, Synoptical Flora, mainly). 
2 Le arenicola: Kearney.” Ke 
a Michx. FL “Bo or, Am. I: nj 803. 
+ Trans. Am, Phil, Soc. Eye ds 1833-37. 
1 Proc, Am, Acad, 10: 68, 1874. 
8 Gray, Man, Ed, 5, 382. 1867. 
| Proc. Am, qe 10: 67. 1874. 
"| Gray, Man, Ed, 5, 382. 1867. 
** Bull, Torr. eu. 21: 485. 1 
