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generally very oblique at the base, and deeply sinuately toothed 
with broad and often obtuse teeth ; peduncles 2-4 mm,., in fruit 
about 1 cm.; calyx villous or viscid: lobes as long as the tube, 
narrow but not subulate-tipped; corolla 3-8 mm. in diameter; 
anthers yellow or tinged with purple; fruiting calyx of a little 
firmer texture and more pubescent than in the P reticu- 
late, 2-3 cm. long, ovoid, cordate; berry yellow or gree 
The pubescence of the stem is often dense and seg? but 
only apparently pruinose. It extends farther north than either 
P. pubescens or P. Barbadensis, ranging from Massachusetts to 
Iowa, Missouri and Florida. No specimens seen either from 
Mexico or the West Indies. 
Massachusetts: W. Deane, 1884; Morong, 1878; Harvard Bot. 
Garden, 1878. 
Connecticut: Miss F. W. Wilson, no. 391, 1892. 
lew York: T. F. Lucy; A. W. Young, 1892; M. Ruger, 
1868 
New Jersey: C.F. Parker, 1870. 
Pennsylvania: J. K- Small, 1889. 
Delaware: Wm. M. Canby, 1871; A. Commons, 1877. 
Virginia: A. H. Curtiss, 1871, 1872. 
North Carolina: Beardslee & Kofoid, 1891. 
Georgia : Chapman, 1864; J. K. Small, 1895. 
Florida: Chapman. 
Tennessee: A. Ruth, 1894; Kearney, 1891. 
Kentucky: CW. Short. 
Jilinos: XE. Hall, 1872. 
Missouri: Engelmann, 1841; B. F. Bush, 1888, 
ansas: Kellerman, 1888. 
lowa: A.S. Hitchcock, 1875, 1889. 
Wisconsin: T. J. Hale, 1861; L. H. Pammel, 1883. 
Michigan: Agricultural College, 1886. 
Washington:* L. F. Henderson, no. 2496, 1892; W. H. 
Suksdorf, no. 2285, 1894. 
* Physalis Neo-Mexicana. 
P. pubescens Porter & Coulter, Syn. Fl. Colo. 110. 1874; 
Coulter, Man. Rocky Mts., 270, in part. Not L. 
* Probably introduced. 
