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the type specimens as a loan from Harvard and they show that it 
is nothing but a form of P. hederaefolia with the pedicels slightly 
longer than usual. It scarcely deserves varietal rank. 
In a note just before P. grandiflora, Dr. Gray writes:* «P. 
Carpenteri Riddell, Cat. Fl. Ludov. (N. O. Med. and Surg. Journal 
8: 758, 1852, name only), referred to Withania Morisoni in Bot. 
Gazette, 3: II, is some adventitious Athenaca.” In the collections 
there are about half a dozen specimens from Louisiana, Alabama 
and Florida. It is plain that it is not Withania Morisoni Dunal.[ It 
is not an Athenaea, as characterized by Bentham & Hooker or 
Dunal, as the corolla is not divided to or below the middle and its 
lobes are not valvate. It has the corolla of Physalis. The calyx is 
inflated, as in that genus, but not angled, in the original specimens 
often with very unequal lobes. The latter characters and the fact 
that the flowers are in fascicles seem to throw it out of Physalis 
and into Athenaea. But in P. Wright Gray, the flowers are some- 
times found in twos, threes or even fours, and in specimens of P. 
Carpenteri of later collections, as, for instance, Nash, no. 2503, the 
calyx-lobes are short and equal and the flowers solitary. I have 
compared the present species with P. Æptophylla Robinson & 
Greenman, t which is without doubt a Physalis, and the latter dif- 
fers in no respect except that the flowers are always solitary, some- 
what smaller, the lobes of the calyx equal, and the fruiting calyx 
a little larger and of somewhat firmer texture. I regard, therefore, 
P. Carpenteri as a Physalis, but what name shall it receive and how 
shall it be cited? Physalis Carpenteri Riddell, in Cat. Fl. Ludov. 
is a nomen nudum. In the Botanical Gazette, Dr. Chapman 
describes it under Withania Morisoni, but it is not W. Morisoni 
Dunal. The description is not long, but well characterizes the 
plant. Physalis Carpenteri Riddell, is given as a synonym. So 
here is a description and a name, hence a publication, and it 
should be cited: Physalis Carpenteri Riddell; Chapman in Bot. 
Gaz. 3: 11, 1878, as a synonym under Withania Morisonti Chap- 
man, not Dunal. 
A few changes are also here proposed in the limitations of 
* Syn. FL 2: pt. 1, 233. 1878. 
+ DC. Prod. 13: pt. 1,454 1852. 
1 Proc. Am. Acad. 29: 389. 1894. 
