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Kansas : E. Bartholomew, no. 2, 1892; E. A. Popenoe, 1875. 
Texas: G. Jermy, no. 618, 1800. ^ 
Colorado : Vasey, no. 462, 1868 (poor specimen of this species ?). 
A. few specimens (Rydberg, nos. 270 and 271, especially the 
latter) are more grayish puberulent, have smaller flowers, and more 
rhomboid leaves, which are somewhat decurrent on the petioles 
and more oblique at the base. "They are similar to specimens in 
the Harvard Herbarium received from Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 
and labelled P. chenopodifolia. 1 therefore took this form for P. 
chenopodifolia Lam. Although that species is also grayish pubes- 
cent, it is distinct from my plant, as can be seen from the original 
description. P. chenopodifolia stands in the same relation to P. 
Peruviana as the present form does to P. heterophylla. 
~ 26. Physalis hederaefolia Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 65. 1874. 
Syn. Fl. 2: part 1, 235 ; Coulter, Cont. U.S. Nat. Herb. 2: 300. 
P. Alkekengi var. digitalifolia Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 153. 
1858, not Dunal.* 
P. mollis Torr. 1. c., in part. 
P. digitalifolia Britton, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 5: 288. 1895. 
P. Palmeri Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: part 1, 235. 1888. 
Erect and branched, rarely decumbent, 3-5 cm. high, from a 
thick perennial base, finely viscid-pubescent or villous; hairs gen- 
erally short; leaves in the typical form broadly cordate or subren- 
iform, coarsely and angulately sinuately toothed, more or less 3-5- 
ribbed, about 3-5 cm. in diameter; peduncles generally short, but 
in one form (P. Palmeri Gray), a little longer than the fruiting 
calyx; calyx finely viscid-pubescent ` corolla about 114 cm. wide; 
fruiting calyx ovoid, 5-10 angled, pubescent, 2-3 cm. long. 
P. hederaefolia grows on rocky hills or high dry plains. It 
ranges from southern Colorado and southern California to Mexico. 
The following specimens are in the herbaria: 
Colorado: Greene, 1880; Geo. Vasey (Powell's Exp.) no. 462, 
1868. ym 
Texas: Dr. V. Havard, no. 168 and 169, 1881 ; C. Wright, 
no. 528, 1849; J. Reverchon, no. 1340, 1882; Mrs. Thomson, ; 
no. 220, 1872; Bigelow in Mex. Bound. Surv. 1857; Schott in 
Mex. Bound. Surv.t 
*DC. Prod. 13: Part I, 438. 1852. 
tApproaching P. comata in hairiness. 
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