356 
7 go. Physalis viscosa L. Sp. Pl. 183. 1753. Ed. 2, 261; Willd. 
Sp. Pl. 1: 1021; Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 149; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. 1: 697; Walp. Rep.3: 23; Nees, Linnaea, 6: 457; 
Don, Gard. Dict. 4: 448; Sendtn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 10: 129; 
Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 66, 1874; Syn. Fl. 2: part 1, 236; 
Dunal in DC. Prod. 13: part 1,434; Roem. & Sch. Syst. Veg. 
4: 672; Wats. & Coult. in Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 376; Coult. 
Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2: 301. 
P. Pennsylvanica L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 1670. 1763. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. 1: 1021; Lam. Enc. Meth. 2: 100; Mart. & Gal. Bull. Brux. (V) 
12: no. 2; Walp. Rep. 3: 24; Roem. & Sch. Syst. Veg. 4: 673; 
PIL POLT C Ga 1: 278. 
P. tomentosa Walt. Fl. Car. 99. 1788. Not Medic.* Darby, 
Bot. 26. St. 451. 
P. Walteri Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 7: 112. 1834. Don, Gard. 
Dict. 4: 448; Walp. Rep. 5: 26; Eat. & Wr. N. A. Bot. 357. 
P. nutans J. F. Gmelin Syst. 2: part 1, 382. 
Alkekengi fissum Moench, Meth. 2: 472. 1794. 
Perennial from a slender creeping rootstock, slender, creeping, 
cinereous with a dense stellate pubescence or in age rarely 
glabrate ; leaves elliptic, oval or ovate, obtuse, thinnish, entire or 
undulate, in the typical South American form often cordate at the 
base, but rarely so in our plant; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; calyx 
stellate, lobes triangular, generally shorter than the tube; corolla 
greenish yellow with a darker center, 1.5-2 cm. in diameter ; fruit- 
ing calyx 2-3 cm. long, rounded ovoid, Pa sunken at the 
base; berry orange or yellow. 
P. viscosa grows on the sea beaches or in sand near the coast. 
Its range extends from Virginia (?) to the Argentine Republic. 
The South American specimens generally have rather thinner 
and broader leaves, which are often somewhat sinuate. Specimens 
collected by A. A. Heller in Texas, no. 1453, 1894, are inter- 
mediate between the southern form and P. mollis. Narrower 
leaved forms pass into the variety. 
North Carolina : Curtis. 
Georgia: Curtis. — 
Florida : Wm.. M. Canby, 1869 and 1889; Edw. Palmer, 
no. 375, 1874; Curtiss, no. 2210, 18705 no. ABAD LaL ; J. Don- Don- 
* Act. Acad. Theod. 4 : 184. 27. 4. due 
