360 
smooth, except the margin, which is stellate;* lobes triangular ; 
corolla 1 22-2 cm. in diameter, yellow with dark centre; fruiting 
calyx generally a little shorter than in the next species. 
Specimens of this have been labelled P. lanceolata or P. viscosa 
spathulaefolia. The form of the calyx,which is nearly perfectly gla- 
brous except on the margin, places this nearest to P. angustifolia 
into which it grades. The leaves often resemble in form those of ?. 
viscosa maritima, from which they differ in texture and pubescence. 
The stellate species grade more or less into each other and it is 
difficult to draw the lines between them, but as far as this is con- 
cerned, the nearest relationship is with P. angustifolia, and if not 
regarded as a species it should be placed as a variety of that plant 
rather than of P. vescosa. The following specimens have been ex- 
Florida : A. P. Garber, 1876; J. H. Simpson, 1889; Chapman, 
1887 ; Kugel, 1843 (type); Dr. Hulse; Dr. Leavenworth ; J. Don- 
nell Smith, 1880+; A. P. Garber (in U. S. Nat. Herb.), 18761; 
Blodgett (in Columbia Coll. Herb.)$; Edw. Palmer, 376, 1874. 
Texas: Schott, no. 30, 1853 (type of P. Pennsylvanica var. 
spathulacfolia Torr.). 
34. Physalis angustifolia Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 7: 113. 1834. 
Don, Gard. Dict. 4: 448; Walp. Rep. 3: 27; Gray, Proc. Am. 
Acad. 10: 67; Syn. Fl. 2: part 1, 236; Dunal in DC. Prod. 13: 
part 1, 451; Eat. & Wr. N. A. Bot. 357; Wood, Bot. & 
Flor. 263; Chapman, Fl. So. St. 350. 
Rootstock slender, long and creeping; stem diffuse and 
branched, angled. Plants is im perfectly smooth, except on the 
margins of the calyx-lobes, rarely sparsely stellate all over when 
young; leaves linear or linear-oblanceolate, tapering into the 
petiole, von thickish ; veins, except the mid-rib, generally obso- 
lete; peduncles 2-3 cm. long, ‘filiform, generally erect, in fruit 4-5 
cm. long ir reflexed ; calyx smooth, except the stellate ciliate 
margins of the rounded triangular lobes; corolla about 2 cm. in 
diameter, yellow with purple centre, anthers yellow; fruiting calyx 
*This does not agree with Kunze’s description, which gives it as hairy. The 
specimens in the Torrey Herbarium are in fruit, but there is no indication of hairi- 
ness except the stellate margin. 
+ Very broad-leaved forms. 
t Broad-leaved form approaching P. viscosa maritima. 
$ Form connecting it with P. angustifolia, 
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