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P. arenicola. In the upper Mississippi Valley, a dark verdigris- 
green form, with small thickish sinuately lobed, nearly smooth 
and shining leaves and short and wide fruiting calyx, is sometimes 
found. It is represented by the following specimens : 
[inois : W.S. Moffatt, 1893. 
Wisconsin: E. A. Mearns, 1800. 
Minnesota: G. B. Aiton, 1890. 
There is also a form near P. Virginiana,the position of which 
is uncertain. It is temporarily placed here as a variety : 
Physalis Virginiana intermedia n. v. 
Leaf very thin and subentire, gradually tapering in to a winged 
petiole; pubescence in the young plant somewhat viscid. 
This is a very peculiar plant, in pubescence and flower resem- 
bling forms of P. heterophylla, in the form of the leaves recalling 
P. lanceolata, but in their texture P. Carpenter. The general habit 
and fruiting calyx are those of P. Virginiana which it comes 
nearest. The following specimens are preserved in the herbaria ; 
Southern States: S. B. Buckley (type). 
Alabama: S. B. Buckley. 
Texas: Lindheimer, 1828. 
Indiana: N. L. Britton. 
. Physalis arenicola Kearney, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 21: 485. 
1894. 
Stems 2-4 dm., slender, much branched, striate, from a slender 
creeping rootstock; plant light green; pubescence mostly of 
simple hairs, but sometimes a little glandular, in age scarcely any, 
eXcept on the veins of the calyx; leaves usually small, blade 
175-6 cm. long, but sometimes up to 8 cm., ovate, cordate, trun- 
cate or cuneate at the base, irregularly angulate-dentate, pubes- 
cence, if any, along the veins, which are generally prominent and 
conspicuously reticulated ; peduncles slender ; calyx-lobes triangu- 
lar-lanceolate, equalling the tube; corolla 134-2 cm. in diam., 
light yellow; anthers yellow; fruiting calyx 3 cm. long, narrowly 
ovoid or rather oblong-pyramidal or nearly cylindric, conspicu- 
ously reticulated ; berry light yellow. 
It much resembles certain forms of the preceding species, but 
is generally more slender, light green, but not yellowish. As the 
name indicates, it grows in sandy soil, and seems to be limited to 
Florida. The following specimens have been examined : 
Florida: G. V. Nash, no. 1170, 1894 (type); B. F. Seeds, 
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