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D” 18. Physalis lanceolata Michx. Fl Bor. Am. 1: 149, 1803. 
à Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 157; Eat. Man. Ed. 2: 358; Ed. 3: 390; 
Ed. 5:329; Ed.6: 263; Eat. & Wr. N. A. Bot. 357 ;* Hol- 
zinger, Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 212, in part. 
P. Pennsylvanica lanceolata Gray, Man. Ed. 5: 382. 1867 ; 
Wood, Bot. & Fl. 263; Porter & Coult. Syn. Fl. Col. 110. 
_ Perennial; rootstock apparently as a rule slender and creep- 
ing; stem about LG m. high, first erect, later spreading or 
diffuse, only slightly angled, sparingly hirsute with flat hairs; 
leaves broadly oblanceolate or spatulate, tapering into the petiole, 
acute or obtuse, nearly always entire, rarely wavy, but never 
sinuately toothed, thickish, sparingly hairy with short hairs; pedun- 
cles 1-2 cm. long, in fruit reflexed ; calyx strigose or villous, rarely 
glabrous, lobes triangular-lanceolate : corolla dullish yellow with a 
brownish center, about 1: 4 cm. in diameter; fruiting calyx 
rounded ovoid, not sunken at the base, indistinctly ıo-angled ; 
berry yellow or greenish yellow. 
It has generally been confused with P. Virgianana Mill., not 
Gray, but is easily distinguished by the fruiting calyx which is 
not sunken at the base and scarcely angular, by the slender root- 
Stock, by the dullish yellow corolla, and by the leaves, which are 
much thicker in texture, of a darker green color, and entire or 
nearly so. Its nearest relative is the next species into which its 
broader-leaved forms seem to pass. 
P. lanceolata grows on dry prairies and is common west of the 
Missouri River, but extends eastward to the Carolinas. 
North Carolina: H. W. Ravenel, 1869. 
South Carolina: H.W. Ravenel, 1866. 
Louisiana: Marcy Exp. 
Illinois: W. S. Moffatt, 1893. 
Towa: Arthur, no. 37, 1858. 
Missouri: 1. H. Pammel, 1888. 
Kansas: Kellerman, no. 5,t 1888; E. Bartholomew, 1891 ; 
M. A. Carleton, no. 298, 1891. mu 
Nebraska: H. Englemann; Rydberg, no. 273, 1891; no. 1330, 
1893; F. C. Clements, no. o. 2968, 1893; Webber, 1889; Hapeman, 
1891; Smith & Pound, no. 151, 1892; A. F. Woods, no. 330, 
1892; Fremont, no. 4. Beer. 
* In later American works, the references belong only partly to this species, but 
mainly to Z. Virginiana, under which they will be found. 
TApproaches P, pumila in habit. 
