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8. Physalis subglabrata Mackenzie and 
Bush. Smooth Ground-Cherry. 
Fig. 3703. 
?Physalis philadelphica Lam. Encycl. 2: ror. 1786. 
P, subglabrata Mackenzie & Bush, Trans. Acad. St. 
Louis 12: 86. 1902. 
_Perennial from a deep rootstock, tall, erect, 23°-5° 
high; stem angled, dichotomously branched, gla- 
brous, or sometimes slightly pubescent with sparse 
and short hairs on the upper parts; blades ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, often very oblique at the base and 
more or less acuminate, entire or repand-denticulate, 
23’-4’ long, on petioles 13’-23’ long, often in pairs; 
peduncles slender, 5’”—10” long, generally longer than 
the flower; calyx glabrous, or minutely ciliolate, 
lobes ovate-lanceolate or trangular, sometmes broadly 
ovate and unequal, generally equalling the tube; 
corolla yellow or greenish yellow with purplish 
throat, #’-1’ in diameter; anthers tinged with pur- 
ple; fruiting calyx at first somewhat 10-angled and 
sunken at the base, at last often filled with or burst 
by the large red or purple berry. 
Ontario and Rhode Island to Georgia, Minnesota, Kentucky and Cotirrdn. July-Sept. 
g. Physalis longifolia Nutt. Long-leaved Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3704. 
Physalis longifolia Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II.) 5: 
193. 1833-37. 
Physalis lanceolata var. laevigata A. Gray, Proc. Am. 
Acad. 10: 68. 1874. 
Perennial from a thick rootstock; stem in the com- 
mon form stout and tall, 13°-3° high, slightly angled, 
branched “above, the branches strict, glabrous. 
Leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate, or linear, tapering 
into a short stout petiole 5-10” long, subentire or 
repand; peduncles 5-10” long, in fruit often re- 
curved; calyx generally glabrous, its lobes triangular- 
lanceolate, about the length of the tube; corolla 6”— 
Io” in diameter, yellow with a dark, commonly 
brownish center; anthers yellow, tinged with purple; 
fruiting calyx ovoid, about 14’ long, not sunken at 
the base; berry yellow, the lower portion and the 
stipe glutinous. F 
In rich soil, Iowa to South Dakota, Montana, Arkan- 
sas, Utah and Mexico. July—Sept. 
to. Physalis macréphysa Rydb. Large- 
bladder Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3705. 
P. macrophysa Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Club 22: 308. 1895. 
Perennial; rootstock rather thick and fleshy; stem 
erect, 13°-3° high, comparatively slender, angled, 
perfectly glabrous, or the upper parts sparingly pu- 
bescent with very short hairs. Leaves large, thin, 
14’-33’ long, 1’-2’ wide, the lower obtuse, the upper 
acute or acuminate; petioles slender, 10-20” long; 
peduncles 5-8” long, erect, in fruit reflexed; calyx 
smooth, its lobes ovate-triangular or broadly lanceo- 
late, generally a little shorter than the tube; corolla 
yellow with a dark center, about 10” in diameter; 
anthers generally yellow, sometimes tinged with pur- 
ple; fruiting calyx large, 13-13’ long, 1-13’ in diam- 
eter, pyramidal to ovoid-conic, indistinctly 10-angled, 
deeply sunken at the base; berry small, in the center 
of the calyx. 
In rich soil, Kansas and Arkansas to Texas. May- 
July. Rare. 
