GENUS 2. POTATO FAMILY, 157 
2. Physalis pruindsa L. Tall Hairy 
Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3697. 
Physalis pruinosa L. Sp. Pl. 184. 1753. 
P. pubescens Dunal, in DC. Prodr. 13: part 1, 
446. 1852. é 
Annual; stem stout, generally erect, and 
more hairy than the preceding and the two 
following species; stem obtusely angled, finely 
villous or somewhat viscid; leaves firm, 14’—4’ 
long, finely pubescent, ovate, cordate, generally 
very oblique at the base, and deeply sinuately 
toothed with broad and often obtuse teeth; 
peduncles 1’-2” long, in fruit about 5”; calyx 
villous or viscid; lobes as long as the tube, 
narrow but not subulate-tipped; corolla 2-4” 
in diameter; anthers yellow, or tinged with 
purple; fruiting calyx a little firmer and more 
pubescent than in the preceding, reticulate, 
10’’-15”” long, ovoid, sunken at the base; berry 
yellow or green. 
In cultivated soil, Massachusetts to Ontario, 
Florida, Iowa, Missouri and Colorado. July—Sept. 
3. Physalis barbadénsis Jacq. Barbadoes 
Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3698. 
Physalis barbadensis Jacq. Misc. 2: 359. 1781. 
Physalis obscura Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 149. 1803. 
Physalis barbadensis obscura Rydberg, Mem. Torr. Club 
4: 327, 1896, 
Annual; stem tall and erect or widely spreading, 
acutely 3-4-angled, pubescent, viscid, or nearly gla- 
brous; leaves 13’-23’ long, ovate or heart-shaped, acute, 
or abruptly acuminate, sharply repand-dentate, pubes- 
cent with short hairs; peduncles short, 13”-2” long, but 
in fruit sometimes 10”; calyx generally densely viscid- 
hirsute, lobes lanceolate, acuminate, but not subulate- 
tipped; corolla 23-5” in diameter; anthers generally 
purplish; fruiting calyx longer than in the two pre- 
ceding species, 1-17’ long, acuminate and reticulate, 
retuse at the base. 
Sandy soil, Pennsylvania to Illinois, Missouri, Florida, 
Mexico, the West Indies and South America. July—-Sept. 
4. Physalis missouriénsis Mack. & Bush. 
Missouri Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3699. 
Physalis missouriensis Mack. & Bush, Fl. Jackson 
Co. 167. 1902. 
Annual; stem spreading, often zigzag, branched, 
striate, or slightly angled, villous with short hairs. 
Leaves 4’-33’ long, ovate, oblique and cuneate, 
obtuse, or cordate at the base, acute but not acu- 
minate, repand or sinuately dentate, hairy, at least 
on the veins; peduncles 4”-23” long, erect, in fruit 
23-5”, reflexed, shorter than the fruiting calyx; 
calyx villous, lobes shorter than the tube, triangu- 
Jar; corolla 13’—-4” in diameter, yellow; fruiting 
calyx 7’-10” long, round-ovoid, nearly filled by 
the berry, scarcely sunken or commonly rounded 
at the base. 
Missouri and Kansas to Arkansas and Oklahoma. 
July-Sept. Referred in our first edition to the 
tropical P. Lagdéscae R. & S. 
