329 
? P. Rothiana Roem. & Sch. Syst. Veg. 4: 677. 1819. 
P. pubescens Wats. & Coult. in Gray, Man. Ed. 6: 375, as to 
B. F. Bush’s plant. 
Stem spreading, often zigzag, branched, striate or slightly 
angled, villous with short hairs; leaves 1-8 cm. long, ovate, ob- 
. lique and cuneate, obtuse, or cordate at the base, acute but not 
acuminate, repand or sinuately dentate, hairy at least on the veins ; 
peduncles 1-5 mm., erect, in fruit 5-10 mm., reflexed, shorter than 
the fruiting calyx; calyx villous, lobes shorter than the tube, tri- 
angular ; corolla 3-8 mm. in diameter, yellow, generally with a dark 
centre, anthers generally yellow; fruiting calyx 117-2 cm. long, 
po og nearly filled with the berry, not sunken at the 
ase. 
Resembles most P. pubescens and P. pruinosa but differs by its 
short calyx-lobes and the fruiting calyx, which is neither sharp- 
angled nor sunken at the base. It is a native of Mexico, the 
West and East Indies; in the United States, probably only intro- 
duced. Specimens examined : 
Kansas: W. A. Kellerman no. 44, no. 47, 1882; W. T. Swin- 
gle, 1887; E. K. Popenoe, 1879 ; Stuart Weller, 1887 ; Gattinger, 
4. 
Missouri: H. Eggert, 1887, 1891; B. F. Bush, 1887, 1888, 
and 1893, no. 25, no. 1023; J. W. Blankinship, 1893; Engelmann, 
1841 and 1847; A. E. Heacox. 
Arkansas: | Engelmann. 
Indian Territory: J. E. Bodin, 1891. 
West Indies: Wright, no. 1590. 
7. Physalis Greenei Rose, Cont. U, S. Nat. Herb. 1: 18. 1890. 
P. pedunculata Greene, Pittonia 1: 268. 1889. Not Mart. & Gal.* 
Erect-spreading, the flexuous branches angular, 2-3 dm. long; 
leaves ovate or rhombic, acute, but not long-acuminate, entire or 
with few shallow teeth, 2-3 cm. long, the slender petioles of about 
tne same length as the blade ; corolla greenish yeliow, 12-15 mm. 
In diameter; fruiting calyx I-114 cm. long, pendulous on the 
long peduncle, which exceeds it in length. 
Mexico, Cedros Island: Lieut. C. F. Pond, 1889 (Type of P. 
Pedunculata Greene); Dr. Sheets; Lower California: Edw. Palmer, 
no. 561, 1887; Carmen Island: Edw. Palmer, no. 10, 1870. 
* Bull. Brux. 12: 132. 1845. 
