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small, 117-2 cm., ovate, obscurely angled and scarcely sunken at 
the base. 
P. angustifolia grows on the beach or in sand near the coast. 
It ranges from Florida to Louisiana, but is most common on the 
Florida “ keys." 
Florida: Curtiss, no. 175, 1880, no, 2212; Chapman, no. 672, 
etc.; Bennett; Simpson, no. 249, 1891 ; Rafinesque (labelled Onzstis 
nutans Raf.), no. 895, 1816-36; N. A. Ware (Nuttall's type ). 
Mississippi: S. M. Tracy, 1891. 
Louisiana: Ingalls, 1835; A. B. Langlois, no. 109, 1895. 
Alabama : C. Mohr, 1868. 
VIII. Versicolores : Perennials from a stout root ; fruiting calyx decidedly 1o-angled, 
reticulate, open, lobes short, not connivent; flowers yellowish with a dark center, 
in age turning bluish; leaves not fleshy. 
| 35. Physalis versicolor Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 22: 307. 
1895. 
Finely pubescent, in age glabrate; stem from a stout perennial 
root, much branched, at first erect but later spreading, slender, ob- 
tusely angled ; lower leaves reniform-cordate, the upper ovate, all 
more or less oblique at the base, sinuately toothed, 2-4 cm. long, 
on slendér petioles which are generally a little longer than the 
blade ; peduncles slender, about the length of the petioles; calyx- 
lobes triangular-ovate, shorter than the tube; flowers about I cm. 
wide, yellow or drab with brown spots in the center, turning bluish 
in drying; fruiting calyx thin, ovoid-cylindrical, reticulate, decid- 
edly 10-angled, 2.5—3.5 cm. long, generally open at the mout 
The specimens collected. within the United States are more 
erect, and have larger leaves and fruiting calyces than the Mexi- 
can. Rare within the United States. 
New Mexico: C. Wright, 1851( Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
Arizona : 'Treadwell, 1879 (Cal. Acad. Sci.). 
Mexico, Guaymas : Ed. Palmer, 621 and 622*, 1887. 
Physalis versicolor microphylla Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Club, 22: 307. 1895. : 
Like the species, but leaves only about 1 cm. long, deltoid, 
coarsely toothed; peduncles about twice the length of the leaves; 
fruiting calyx nearly spherical, 1.5 cm. long, tinged with purple. 
Mexico, Guaymas : Ed. Palmer, no. 94, 1887 (herbaria of J. 
Donnell Smith, Columbia College, Professor Greene, etc.). 
* No. 622 is not typical. 
