EE, 
358 
‘Texas: Lindheimer, no. 136, 1842-43 (type of P. maritima 
Curtis) ; Drummond, nos. I and : 57, 1853; Edw. Palmer, no. 945, 
1879. 
31. Physalis Fendleri Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 66. 1874. Syn. 
Fl. 2: part 1, 236; Coulter, Man. Rocky Mts., 270. 
P. mollis Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 153. (In part.) 1859. Not 
Nutt. 
Perennial from a deep fleshy rootstock, 3-6 dm. high, much 
branched, finely puberulent, often somewhat stellate, especially on 
the calyx; leaves small, 1-4 cm. long, deltoid, ovate-lanceolate or 
somewhat cordate, more or less deeply sinuately toothed, acute; 
peduncles shorter than the petioles, 5-10, orsometimes 20 mm. long 
lobes of the calyx triangular, about the length of the tube; co- 
rolla yellow with a brown center, about 1 cm. in diameter; fruit- 
ing calyx rounded ovoid, obscurely angled, 2-3 cm. in diameter; 
berry yellow. 
On dry plains and in rocky places, from southern Colorado 
and Arizona to Mexico. The following specimens have been ex- 
Colorado: T. S. Brandegee, 1871 and 1877; Engelmann, 1874; 
Crandall, 1892; Miss A. Eastwood, 1892. 
New Mexico: Fendler, no. 683, 1847 (mainly, type); Thurber, 
no. 224, 1851; Wright, no. 1599, 1851-2; Bigelow (Mex. Bound. 
Surv.), nos. 1 and 2, 1857; C. C. Parry, 1867 ; Rusby, no. 756. 
Arizona: H H. Rusby, 1883; LG Lemmon, no. 2849, 1882; 
1893; M. E. Jones, no. 6059, 1894. 
Mexico: Schaffner, no. 698, 1876; Parry and Palmer, no. 642, 
1878; Edw. Palmer, no. 94, 1889. H 
Physalis Fendleri cordifolia Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: part 1, 395 (in the 
first edition, 1878; but not in the second). 
Leaves much larger, more cordate and less deeply sinuately 
toothed. 
More hairy specimens approach on one hand P. mollis and on 
the other P. hederacfolia Palmeri and the smoother ones P. crassi- 
folia cardiphylla. The variety cordifolia extends a little further 
northwest than the true P. Fendlert. 
Colorado : Brandegee, 1873; E. L. Greene; C. E. Bessey, 1886. 
Utah: Edw. Palmer, nos. 363 and 369, 1877 (type). 
Arizona: Edw. Palmer, no. 363; M. E. Jones, no. 6059, 1894. 
