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rhomboidal leaves from P. heterophylla ambigua which they some- 
what resemble. P. pumila approaches P. mollis cinerascens only in 
the fact that the hairs are branched. 
P. pumila belongs to the plain region west of Mississippi and 
ranges from Missouri to Colorado and Texas. 
Missouri: MB. F. Bush, no. 1028, 1888; no. 8, 1882; no. 264c 
1893; no. 264A ; no. 339, 1894 ; S. Weller, 1887. 
Kansas: C. G..Pringle, 1885; T. H. Oyster, 1886; Mary 
Waugh, 1893; W. C. Stevens*; J. H. Carruth, 1879. 
Arkansas: Nuttall (type); Engelmann, no. 153, 1875. 
Indian Territory : G. D. Butler (broad-leaved)* 1877; no. 6, 
1877, and no. 84; B. F. B.; Ed. Palmer, no. 213, 1868. 
Colorado: Beardslee. 
Texas: Reverchon, no. 681, 1879; Lindheimer, no. 94; E. 
Hall, no. 501, 1872 ; Drummond, no. 239, 1835. 
20. Physalis Virginiana Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8: no. 4; Fig. PI. 
138. pl. 206. Er: Walp. Rep. 3: 26. 
P. lanceolata + Roem. & Sch. Syst. Veg. 4: 673; Torr. Fl. 
N. and M. U. S. 233; Comp. Fl. U. S. 111; Nicollet, Rep. 156; 
Beck, Bot. 158; Ed. 2: 255; Wood, Class Book, Ed. 41: 447 
(1855); 579 (1863); Don, Gard. Dict. 4: 448; Walp. Rep. 3: 26; 
Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 66; Syn. Fl. 2: part 1, 236; Chap- 
man, Fl. So. St. 350 (in part?); Coult. Man. Rocky Mts. 270; Cont. 
U.S. Nat. Herb. 2: 301; Wats. and Coult. in Gray, Man. Ed. 6: 
376, mainly. 
P. Pennsylvanıca Gray, Man. Ed. 5: 382 (1867); Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. 1: 697 (in part); Torr. Fl. N. and M. U.S. 2341; Comp. 
1101; Darlington, Fl. Cest. 27 (1826){; Beck, Bot. 258}; Eat. 
Man. Ed. 2: 3581; Ed. 3: 390; Eat. & Wright, N. Am. Bot. 
357; Wood, Bot. & Flor. 263 (1873).1 
P. viscosa Pennsylvanica Wood, Class Book 209 (1845); 441 
. (1855). 
Perennial; rootstock thick and somewhat fleshy; stem 172-1 m 
high, erect, dichotomously branched, somewhat angular, more or 
*Approaches P. heterophylla ambigua in the form of the leaves, pubescence in in 
Some specimens somewhat stellate 
+ Some of these references écho also the true Z. /anceolata Michx. 
+ These references belong questionably to this species. 
