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seeds, that have lain on the ground all winter, vegetate in the spring 

 and are often transplanted. Spontaneous in one or two places near 

 Halifax, N.S. (Lindsay^ In this connection I may mention that 

 potato seeds always grow in the North-west, after lying exposed on the 

 surface of the ground all winter. While at Battleford, in the summer 

 of 1879, I saw myriads of plants in an old potato patch, and in October 

 of the same year found the ground covered with potato balls (fruit) 

 the seeds of which would certainly grow the next spring. I conclude 

 from the above that both the Tomato and Potato are perfectly at home 

 in Canada, and that in our ISTorth-west new varieties of potatoes will 

 yet be produced that will supersede the diseased or weakened ones of 

 the east. 



430. PHYSALIS, Linn, (GROUND CHERRY.) 



(1613.) P. Peruviana, Linn. Cape Gooseberry. 

 Spontaneous in a few places about Ottawa. {Fletcher Fl. Ott.) 



(1614.) P. grand iflora, Hook. 



Shore of the St. Lawi'ence below Murray Bay. (Sheppard & McGill 

 Coll. Herb.) Powell's Grist Mill near Ottawa. {Fletcher Fl. Ott.) 

 Abundant in new clearings in the northern parts of Addington, 

 Hastings, Peterboro' and Victoria counties, Ont. ; also quite common 

 in burnt woods, near Wiarton, Bruce Peninsula; also, along the O.P.E. 

 between Bed Eock and Port Arthur. (Macoun.) Maiden, Ont. 

 (Maclagan.) Township of Miraposa, Ontario Co., Ont. (Fowler.) 

 North shore of Lake Superior. (Agassiz.) Sandy banks of the Sas- 

 katchewan, sparingly. (Drummond.) Near old encampments on the 

 shores of Lake Winnipeg, where fires have been made. (Richardson.) 

 Eed Eiver, rare. (Douglas.) Elk Island, Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. 

 Macoun.) 



(1615.) P. pubescens, Linn. 



P. obscura, var. viscido-pubescens, Pursh Fl. I., 157. 



Pound occasionally in gardens, but scarcely spontaneous, N. B. 

 (Fowler's Cat.) Vicinity of Ottawa on waste heaps. In cultivated 

 ground Chinaman's Eanche, near Cache Creek, B.C. (Fletcher.) 



(1616.) P. Virginiana, Mill. 



F. viscosa, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 382. Macoun's Cat., No. 1422. 

 P. Pennsylvanica, Hook. Fl. 11., 90, in part. 



Light or sandy soils, western Ontario. Lake Huron, plentiful. 



