950 
New Jersey: W.W. Bailey. 
Pennsylvania: P. E. Pierson, 1887; Dr. & Mrs. Britton, 1893. 
West Virginia: C. F. Millspaugh. 
Virginia: jJ. K. Small, 1892. 
Georgia: A.P. Garber, 1877 and 1887. 
Tennessee: Gattinger, 1882; *A.Gattinger, 1881; *Scribner, 
Louisiana: A.B. Langlois, no. 1, 1880; no. 2, 1893. 
Ohio: A. E. Ricksecker, 94; C. Wilkinson, no. 7826, 1892. 
Indiana: A. H. Young, no. 40 (in part); 1875. 
Michigan: C. F. Wheeler, 1890, *1891 ; *H. S. Camp, 1893; 
O. A. Farwell, no. 623, 1889; C. A. Davis, 1890; L. H. Bailey, 
1885. 
Towa: F. R., 578; A. S. Hitchcock, 1886, 1887; B. Fink, 
no. 281, 1894; *Hitchcock, 1889; zb H Rolfs, 1890, *1891; 
*H. E. Crosby, 1888. 
Wiconsin: *Lapham, *L. H. Pammel, 1887, *189r. 
Missouri: Blankinship, 1889; D. Krause; *B. F. Bush, 1882. 
Arkansas: A. E. Heacox, 1889. | 
) 25. Physalis comata Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 22: 306. 1895. 
erennial, erect, about 0.5 meter high; pubescence fine and 
short, that on the calyx, peduncles and upper branches mixed with 
long white flat jointed hairs; like P. heterophylla Nees (P. Vir- 
gimana Gray, not L.), but leaves smaller, blade not over 0.5 deci- 
long, rounded, ovate, scarcely at all cordate at the base, 
about 5 centimeters long, thin, somewhat repand-dentate or nearly 
entire; petioles as long as the leaves; peduncles as long as CH 
fruiting calyx or longer; corolla greenish y ee with brow 
center, 114-2 cm. in diameter; fruiting calyx as in P. hederafolia 
Gray, but of thinner texture, 3-4 cm. Jong. rounded ovoid, some 
what 10-angled, scarcely sunken at the bas 
The validity of this as a species may Ge doubted It is inter- 
mediate between P. heterophylla and P. hederacfolia and might be 
placed as a variety of either with about equal reason. It, perhaps, 
most resembles the latter, but differs in the thinner texture of the 
leaves and the fruiting calyx, in the larger flowers, and in the long 
white hairs. 
The following localities are recorded : 
Nebraska: P. A. Rydberg, no. 269, 1891 (type); nos. 271 and 
270, 1891. 
