PLATE LXXV. 



PHYSALIS PROSTRATA. 



Trailing Winter-cherry. 



CLASS V. ORDER I. 

 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Clayx. Perianthium monophyllum, ventrico- 

 ium, femi quinquefidum, pentagonum; la- 

 ciniis acuminatis; perfiftens. 



Corolla. Monopetala, rotata. Tubus bre- 

 vidimus. Limbus femiquinquefidus, mag- 

 nus, plicatus. 



Stamina. Filamenta qninque, fubulata, mi- 

 nima, conniventia. Anthers eredtoe, con- 

 niventes. 



Pistillum. Germcn fubrotundum. Stylus 

 filifonnis, ftaminibus fere longior. Stig- 

 ma obtufum. 



Pericarpium. Bacca fub-globofa, bilocularis, 

 intra calycem maximum, inflatum, clau- 

 fum, pentagonum. 



Semina plurima, reniformia, compreffa. 



Emtalement. Cup one leaf, bellied, half five- 

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

 pered : permanent. 



Blossom, one petal, whed-fhaped. Tube very 

 fhort. Border half rive-cleft, large, and 

 plaited. 



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

 and approaching. Tips upright, and ap- 

 proaching. 



Pointal. Seed-bud roundifh. Shaft thread- 

 fhaped, hardly longer than the chives. 

 Summit blunt. 



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

 within a large, fwelled, clofe-mouthed, five- 

 fided cup. 



Seeds many, kidney- fhaped, and flat. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Thyfalis, ramofiflima, proftrata, hifpida ; foliis 

 fubcarnofis ; corollis casruleis. 



Winter Cherry, very branching, trailing, and 

 hairy; leaves nearly flefhy ; bloflbms blue. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



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



3. The Pointal (natural fize). 



4. A ripe Seed-veiled. 



This beautiful fpecies of Phvfalis, as a tender annual, fhould be fown early in March, on a llrong 

 hotbed; and kept, when potted, in the greenhoufe, being impatient of cold or wet, and peri dies if 

 expofed to either. It is a native of Peru, South America, and has been figured by Profeflbr Jacquin 

 in his Ic. Rar. I. t. 38; likewife by Monf. l'Heriticr in his Stirp. Nov. p. 43. t. 22; and was firft 

 tranfmitted to England in the year 1782, by Monf. Thoin, from France. Although it has been cul- 

 tivated here fome years, it is but little known, owing to its great delicacy when young, being very 

 liable to damp off in the hotbed. 



