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late, Poser in pri depu sharply 5-angular and reticulate, 
enclosing the t; lobes connivent; corolla flat, rotate, penta- 
gonal in parame veiny, os or purplish ; anthers opening by 
a longitudinal slit. Seeds comparatively few, kidney-shaped, some- 
what flattened, with thick margin, rugose-tuberculate 
The genus is represented by only one species, which has gener- 
ally been included in Physalis, but it is so different from all the 
other species of that genus that it is better regarded as a dis- 
tinct type. It was regarded as such by Rafinesque, but his de- 
scription is faulty. As he, however, cites Physalis lobata Torr. 
as the type of the genus, his generic name must be taken up. 
Dr. Gray made it a section under the name of Chamae- 
physalis. Quincula differs from Physalis by the form and color of 
the corolla, by the different habit and by the seeds. 
I. Quincula lobata (Torr.) Raf. Atl. Journ. 145. 1832. 
Physiis lobata Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 226. 1827. Mex. 
Bound. 152; Rothrock, Wheeler's Exp. 208; Gray, Proc. Am. 
Acad. 10:547 Bot. Cal. 1: 541; Syn: PL 4, part 1; 233; Eat. 
and Wr. N. A. Bot. 357; Porter & Coulter, Syn. Fl. Colo., 110; 
Holz. Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 212; Coulter, Man. Rocky Mt. 
269 ; Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2: 299. 
P. Sabeana Buckley, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1862: 6. 1862. 
Perennial, low, spreading or prostrate, more or less scar 
puberulent, stem ur okay angled and striate, much branche 
leaves oblanceolate or spatulate to oblong, sinuately toothed or 
pinnatifid with rounded lobes, or rarely subentire, cuneate at the 
iie tapering into a margined petiole, thickish and v einy; pedun- 
2-5 cm., in fruit reflexed; calyx-lobes triangular, acute, 
Ebr than the tube; corolla ‘purplish, 2-3 dm. in diameter; 
anthers yellow, tinged with purple; fruiting calyx about as wide as 
long, sharply 5-angled, sunken at the base. 
Common on the high plains, at the base of the Rocky 
Mountains, extending from Kansas to California and Mexico. 
Specimens from about 80 localities examined. 
4. Leucophysalis. 
A tall erect viscid and villous annual, with entire leaves, decur- 
rent on the petiole. Peduncles generally in fascicles of 2-4 from 
axils of the leaves. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, at first a little in- 
flated, but soon filled with and closely fitted to the berry, thin, 
neither angled nor ribbed, faintly veiny, open at the mouth, 
