359 
New Mexico: Fendler, nos. 678 and 683 (in part), 1847; Geo. 
R. Vasey. 
California : J. G. Cooper, 1860-61. 
Mexico : C. C. Parry, 1878. 
> 32. Physalis fuscomaculata De Rouville; DC. Prod. 13: part 1, 
437. T1952. 
Perennial, decumbent or ascending, greener than the rest of 
the stellate species; stems terete with decurrent ridges, a little 
pruinose-stellate; leaves small, 2-4 cm. long, ovate, somewhat 
oblique at the base, entire or repand, the upper often opposite; 
peduncles 1-3 cm. long, longer than the petioles and in fruit often 
as long as the leaves; calyx pruinose, a little stellate, on the 
margins stellate-ciliate; lobes triangular, shorter than the tube; 
corolla yellow with a dark spot; fruiting calyx subglobose, 10- 
angled, somewhat sunken at the base. 
P. fuscomaculata has been regarded as a form of P. viscosa, 
which it comes nearest, but it differs in the pubescence and in its 
more branched habit and greener hue. It has somewhat the same 
relation to P. viscosa as P. Fendleri, or rather the var. cordifolia, 
has to P. mollis. It is a native of South America and, as far as I 
know, has been collected but once within the United States, viz., 
by C. Mohr, no. 27, in 1891, at Mobile, Ala., where it was growing 
among ballast. Mr. Mohr's specimens resemble perfectly speci- 
mens distributed by Cosson. These are from France, where the 
plant is introduced into the botanic gardens. 
> 83. Physalis Elliotti Kunze in Linnaea, 20: 33. 1847. Walp. 
Ann. 1: 529; Dunal in DC. Prod. 13: part I, 439. 
? P. lanceolata El. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1: 278. 1817. 
P. Pennsylvanica spathulaefolia Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 
152. 1859. 
E P. viscosa spathulaefolia Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 66, and 
| Syn. Fl. 2: part 1, 335 (in part). Coult. Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 
2: 301, in part. 
Rootstock slender and creeping ; plant often perfectly smooth, 
except the margins of the calyx-lobes, rarely sparingly stellate 
when young; leaves very thin and veiny, oblong, spatulate, 
broadly oblanceolate or in luxuriant specimens (as, for instance, 
one in J. Donnell Smith's herbarium) broadly oval, entire or wavy, 
decurrent into a winged petiole ; peduncles 2-3 cm. long, slender, 
erect, but in fruit reflexed and often 5 cm. long; calyx generally 
