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P. pruinosa L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2: 263 (in part) 1762; Ell. Bot. 
5. Car. and Ga. 1: 279. 1817. 
Alicabon Barbadense Raf. Sylv. Tell. 57. 1838. 
Stem stouter than in 2. oe tall and erect or widely 
short hairs; peduncles short, 3-4 mm., in fruit sometimes 2 cm. long; 
calyx generally densely viscid-hirsute, lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 
but not subulate- -tipped ; corolla 5-10 mm. in diam. ; anthers gen- 
erally purplish; fruiting calyx longer than in the four preceding 
215—3 cm. long, acuminate and reticulote, retuse at the 
P. Bartadensis has been known in our herbaria either as 2 puð- 
escens L. or as P. obscura, Michx. It is most nearly related to the 
latter, differing only in the pubescence. They are evidently only 
varieties of the same species, which must take the name P. Barda- 
densis Jacq., which is the older. P. Barbadensis is in habit interme- 
diate between P. pubescens and P. pruinosa, but differs from both in 
the more elongated fruiting calyx. Its distribution is from North 
Carolina and southern Illinois to Mexico, the West Indies and 
South America. The following specimens have been examined: 
Florida : Blodgett; Chapman ; A. P. Garber, 1877 ; G. V. Nash 
„1251, 1894. 
North Carolina : Darlington. 
Pennsylvania : S. W. Knipe, 1869. 
South Illinois : Geo. Vasey. 
Missouri: Engelmann, 1847 ; Bush, no. 49, 1888 ; Weller, 1890. 
Indian Territory : Butler, 1877. 
Louisiana : Dr. Ingalls; Hale; Teinturier. 
Texas: Crawford, 1893; Mex. Bound. Surv. no. 1019 (in part). 
Mexico: C. E. Lloyd; E. Palmer, no. 140, 1885; no. 473, 
86; no. 14, 1887 ; no. 433, 1894. 
Venezuela : A. Fendler, no. 1013, 1854-5. 
Cuóa : C. Wright, no. 3635. 
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a. Physalis Barbadensis obscura (Michx.). 
P. angulata Walt. Fl. Car. 99. 1788, not L.; Nees, Linnaea, 6: 
474 (in part); Walp. Rep. 3: 25; Wood, Class-book, 579 (1863); 
Bot. and Flor. 264 (1873). 
