338 
Colorado : Brandegee, 1873, 1874. 
Nebraska: "TN. Hayden, 1853; H. Engelmann, 1856. 
Missouri: Lindheimer, 1839; Engelmann, 1841; L. H. 
Pammel, 1894; B. F. Bush, no. 263, 1893. 
Illinois : Dr. Brendel, 1873; J. Wolf, 1881; H. N. Patterson, 
1874. 
Arkansas: F. L. Harvey. 
Ohio: E. Wilkinson, 1887; CG Lloyd, 1882; H. C. Cowles, 
Towa: P. H. Rolfs, 1891; A. S. Hitchcock, 1884 and 1889; 
L. H. Pammel, 1894; Stewart, 1891. 
Venezuela: A. Fendler, no. 1012, 1854-5. 
7 Physalis longifolia Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II) 5: 193. 
(1834); Dunal in DC. Prod. 13: part 1, 447 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. 
Bound. Surv. 153. 
P. pumila Sonorae Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 153. 1859. 
P. lanceolata laevigata Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ro: 68. 1875; 
syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 237; Coult. Man. Rocky Mt. 270; Wats. & 
Coult. in Gray, Man. Ed. 6: 376; Coult. Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2: 
301. 
Perennial from a thick rootstock; stem in the common form 
stout and tall, 7-1 m. high, slightly angled, branched above, the 
branches strict, glabrous; leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate or linear, 
tapering into a stout short petiole 1-2 cm. long, subentire or re- 
pand ; peduncles 1-2 cm. long, in fruit often recurved ; calyx gen- 
erally glabrous, lobes triangular-lanceolate, about the length of the 
tube; corolla 1-2 cm. in diameter, yellow with a dark commonly 
brownish center; anthers yellow, tinged with purple; fruiting 
calyx ovoid, about 3 cm. long, not sunken at the base; berry 
yellow, the lower portion and the stipe glutinous. 
P. longifolia is nearly related to the preceding. Nuttall, in 
the original description, states that it is very near to P. chen- 
opodifolia. Probably he meant P. chenopodifolia Willd. (changed 
to P. atriplicifolia Jacq.), which is the preceding species, not that of 
Lamarck. The original specimens of Nuttall are not of the normal 
type. They lack the strict habit characteristic of the common 
form. The leaves are also more plainly lanceolate than usual. 
P. longifolia grows generally in rich soil in the prairie and 
plain region of central United States, viz: 
