347 
P. tomentosa Medic. Act. Theod. Pal. 4: 184. 1780. 
P. pubescens R. Br. Prod. Fl. Nov. Hall, 1: 447. 1810. Spreng. 
Syst. 1: 698. 
P. tuberosa Zuccagn.; Sav. Roem. Coll. 130. 1809. Obs. Cent. 43. 
P. edulis Sims, Bot. Mag. pl. 7068. 1807. Cyr. Balb. Cat. Hort. 
Tour. 58. 1813. 
Alkckengi pubescens Moench, Meth. 473. 1774. 
Herschella edulis Bowdich, Excurs. Mader, 159. 1825. 
Perennial from a creeping rootstock, tall, erect, densely pu- 
bescent, but the hairs short; stem angled; leaves large, ovate- 
cordate with a distinct long acumination, 5-15 cm. long, 4-10 
cm. wide, subentire or sinuately few-toothed; petioles 2-4 cm. 
long; calyx villous; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the 
tube; corolla about 2 cm. in diameter; anthers generally violet ; 
berry viscid, yellow. 
A native of South America. It is cultivated for its fruit in all 
warm and temperate regions and often escapes. 
Michigan: LH. Bailey, no. 5. 1887. 
New Jersey: 1. C. Martindale, 1879 (ballast). 
Physalis Peruviana latifolia (Lam.) Dunal in DC. Prod. 13: part 
I, 440. 1852. 
P. latifolia Lam. Ill. 2: 29. 1793. Roem. & Sch. Syst. Veg. 4: 
676. 
P. Barbadensis Lam. Enc. Meth. 2: 102. 1786. 
Leaves larger, rounded, cordate; base more decidedly cordate 
than in the species, stem stouter. 
Also cultivated and escaped. The only specimens seen in our 
herbaria are from Golden Gate Park, Calif., collected by F. O. Vin- 
cent (Herb. Calif. Acad. Sci.). . 
| Z 24. Physalis heterophylla Nees, Linnaea, 6: 463. 1831. Don, 
jr Gard. Dict. 4: 449; Walp. Rep. 3: 24; Dunal in DC. Prod. 
I3: Part 1, 430. 
(?) P. viscosa Jacq. Hort Vind. 2: pl. 136. 1772. Not L. 
P. viscosa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 157. 1814. Torr. Fl. N. & M. 
U. S. 233; Comp. 110; Fl. N. Y. 103; Beck, Bot. 257; Ed. 2, 
255; Darl. Fl. Cest. 27, 1826; 138, 1837; Eat. Man. Ed. 2, 358; 
Ed. 3, 390; Ed. 5, 328; Ed. 6, 262; Eat. & Wr. N. A. Bot. 356; 
Gray, Man. 354; Ed. 2, 340; Ed. 5, 382; Wood, Class-Book 
