964 
// 38. Physalis microphysa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 402. 1886. 
Stem 2-4 cm. high, from a perennial root, branched ; leaves 
calyx about 4 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, in fruit even often 
longer than the tube; corolla about I cm. in diameter; fruiting 
calyx only about 1 cm. long, open at the mouth. 
It has not as yet been collected within the United States. 
Mexico. Chihuahua: C. G. Pringle, nos. 116, 317, 1885. 
$ 3. MEcisTA. 
Flowers in Bin limb more distinctly 5-lobed ; plant tall, hir- 
sute or glabra 
. 39. Physalis PORN 1.59; PL-183..1753. Ed, 2.2062: Willd. 
! Sp. Pl. 1: 1022; Don, Gard. Dict. 4: 448 ; Gmelin, Syst. 2: 
part 1, 381; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1: 697 ; Dunal in DC. Prod. 
I3: part 1, 438; Walp. Rep. 3: 23; Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: part 
1, 233; Eat. Man. Ed. 4, 350; Ed. 3. 300; Roem. & Seh. 
Syst. Veg. 4: 673; Wood, Class Book, 447, 1855; 579, 
1863; Bot. & Flor. 263. 
P. Halicacabum Crantz, Inst. 2: 370. 1766. Scop. Fl. Car. Ed. 2, 
ID. 1972 
Megista maxima Tourr. in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon (IL) 17: 115. 
69. 
Alkekengi officinarum Moench, Meth. Suppl. 177. 
Tall, 72—1 m., strict, from a creeping rootstock ; leaves broadly 
deltoid, acute at both ends, repand or angularly toothed ; peduncles 
about 5-10 mm,., erect, in fruit reflexed ; fruiting calyx obtusely 5- 
angled, retuse at base, often colored red; berry red. 
It is a native of Europe and Asia; oien cultivated for its fruit 
and sometimes escaped from cultivation, as for example : 
New Jersey: Conrad. 
Pennsylvania : 1. Martindale, 1866; 1886. 
Delaware : À. Commons, no. 2213, 1885. 
“3. Quincula Raf. 
QUINCULA Raf. Atl. Journ. 145. 1832. 
A low and diffuse, sparsely scurfy-granuliferous herb from a 
stout perennial root. Leaves from sinuate to pinnatifid, somewhat 
fleshy. Peduncles most commonly in pairs from the axils of the 
leaves, sometimes solitary or in fascicles of 3-5. Calyx campanu- 
