PLATE LXXV. 



PHYSALIS PROSTRATA. 



L^" 



Trailing Winter- cherry. 



CLASS 



V. 



ORDER 



I. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Clayx. Perianthium monophyllum, ventrico- 

 fum, femi qiiinquefidura, pentagonum; la- 

 ciniis acuminatisj perliftens. 



Corolla. Monopetala, rotata. Tubus bre- 



viflimus. Limbus femiqninquefidus, mag- 

 nus, pllcatus. 



Stamina. Filamenta quinque, fubulata, mi- 

 nima, conniventia. Antherae ereflae, con- 

 niventes. 



Pjstillum. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus 

 iiliformis, ftaminibus fere longior. Stig- 

 ma obtufum. 



Pekicarpium. Bacca fub-globofa, bilocularis, 

 intra calycem maximum, inflatura, clau- 

 fum, pentagonum. 



Semina plurlma, reniformla, compreffa. 







Empalement. Cup one leaf, bellied^ half five- 

 cleft, and five-fided; the fegments are ta- 

 pered} permanent^ 



Blossom, one petal, wheel-fhaped. Tube very 

 fliort. Border half five-cleft, large, and 

 plaited. 



Chives. Five threads, awl-fliaped, very fmall, 



and approaching. Tips upright, and ap- 

 proaching. 



PoiNTAL. Seed-bud roundifh. Shaft thread- 

 Ihaped, hardly longer than the chives. 

 Summit blunt. 



Seed-vessel. A roundilh berry, two-celled, 

 "Within a large, fwelled, clofe-mouthed, five- 



fided cup. 

 Seeds many, kidney-fhaped, and flat. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Pbyfalis, ramofiflima, proftrata, hifpidai folli 

 fubcarnofis ; coroUis casruleis. 



3 



Winter Cherry, very branching, trailing, and 

 hairy i leaves nearly fleihy^ bloflbms blue. 



REFERENCE TQ THE PLATE 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives attached. 



3. The Pointal (natural fize). 



4. A ripe Seed-veflel. 



hotbed 



expofed to eithei . 



in his 



be fown earlv in March 



South 



vti, and perlllies if 



ic. Kar. I. t. 38 i likewife by Monf VHeritier in his Stirp. Nov. p. 43, t. 22 i and was firft 



tivated here fome years 

 liable to damp off in th 



Monf 



delicacy 



Although it has been cul- 



