994 
North Carolina: G. McCarthy, no. 18, 1885; Darlington; 
Wm. M. Canby, 1867. 
South Carolina: T.C. Porter, (a narrow: leaved form); Ravenel; 
M. A. Curtis. 
Florida : Blodgett; Chapman, no. 115; A. H. Curtiss, no. 
1043, 1876; no. 2208 ; G. V. Nash, no. 1052, 1894; A. W. Chap- 
man. 
Georgia: J. K. Small, 1894. 
Louisiama: Riddell; S. T. Olney; Hale. 
Illinois: H Eggert. 
Indian Territory : Bush, no. 397, 1894. 
Cuba: C. Wright, no. 3637, 1865, etc. 
Jamaica: Hitchcock, no. 1130, 1892. 
St. Thomas: Eggers, no. 295, 1830. 
Panama: Fendler, no. 247, 1850. 
British Guiana:  Jenman, no. 5155. 
Brazil: Saint-Hilaire, no. 41 B, 1816-21. 
Peru: Wilkes Exp., 1838-42. 
. Philadelphicae: Annuals with a branching root or perennials with a thick more 
or less fleshy rootstock; fruiting calyx (except in P. macrophysa) indistinctly 
5-10-angled and seldom sunken at the base; flowers large, 1-214 cm. in diame- 
ter, yellow with a brown or purple center; pubescence on the leaves none, on the 
upper part of the stem and the calyx sparse and short, if any, or in young plants 
of the first species sometimes finely puberulent. 
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to 
. Physalis ixocarpa Brot.* Horneman, Hort. Hafn. Suppl. 26. 
1810. 
P. aequata Jacq. f.; Nees in Linnaea, 6: 470. 1831 ; Don, Gard. 
Dict. 4: 449; Jacq. f. Ecl. 2: 2.737. 1844; Walp. Rep. 3: 25; 
Schiede & Schlecht. Linnaea, 19: 309; Dunal in DC. Prod. 13: 
part 1, 447 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10:64; Syn. Fl. 2: part 1,234; 
Bot. Cal. 1: 541. Coulter, Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb 2: 300; S. B. 
Parish, Zoe, 1: 122. 
P. Philadelphica minor Dunal in DC. Prod. 13: Part 1, 450. 1852. 
At first erect, later widely spreading, much branched; stem 
angled, glabrous or the younger parts sparingly hairy ; leaves from 
cordate to ovate with cuneate base, which is somewhat oblique, 
sinuately dentate or entire, 3-6 cm. long ; peduncles short, 2-5 mm.; 
calyx sparingly hairy, lobes short, broadly triangular, shorter 
*'The name was published in 1183 in DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 
