328 
P. obscura Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 149. 1803; Pursh, Fl. Am. | 
Sept. 157; Poir. Enc. Meth. Suppl. 2: 347; Roem & Sch. Syst. 
4: 677; Eat. Man. Ed..3: 390; Ed.5: 328; Ed.6: 263; Beck, 
Bot. 258; Don, Gard. Dict. 4: 451; Walp. Rep. 3: 27; Gray; 
Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 64; Syn. Fl.2: part 1, 234; Eaton & Wr. 
N. Am. Bot. 357; Coult. Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2: 300. 
P. Brasiliensis Sendtner, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 10: 131. 1854. See — 
Gray, /. c. 
P. hirsuta ^^ oig tags Dunal, in DC. Prod. 13: part 1, 445. 
1852, in part. 
Greener; perfectly smooth or sometimes minutely pubescent, | 
when it grades into P. Barbadensis proper. 
The distribution is about the same as that of the species. 
Georgia: Chapman, No. 80. 
Florida: Chapman, 1889. 
Alabama: C. Mohr, 1878. 
Louisiana: A. B. Langlois, 1880. 
Tennessee: A. Gattinger. 
Arkansas: A. E. Heacox, 1889. 
„Texas: E Hall, no. 503, 1872. 
Missouri: Eggert, 1893; B. F. Bush, no. 98, 1893. 
Mexico : Schott, no. 5, 1864. 
Cuba: Wright, no. 3635 (in part). 
Jamaica: Hitchcock. | 
St. Vincent: HH & G. W. Smith, 1328a & 1329, 1890. E 
Porto Rico: I. Urban, no. 745, 1885. : 
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I. Zeptophyllae: Annuals; root branched and weak; fruiting calyx obtusely or indis- 
tinctly 5-10-angled, scarcely sunken at the base ; calyx lobes (in flowering time) t 
triangular to lanceolate, generally shorter than the tube, except sometimes in 7. 
Carpenteri, Plants generally more or less pubescent. 
el 6. Physalis Lagascae Roem. & Sch. Syst. Veg. 4: 679. 1819. 
P. minima Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1: $63, 1820 not L.;* Nees, 
Linnaea 6: 479; Don, Gard. Dict. 4: 450 (in part); Walp. Rep. id 
3: 26; Dunal, in DC. Prod. 13: part 1, 445. px 
P. parviflora Lag. Gen. & Sp. 11, no. 147. 1816. Not R. Br. 
er villosa Roth, Nov. PI. b 122, 1821, not Mill. 
*Sp. PL 183. 1753. 
+ Prod. Nov. Holl. 447. 1810. 
