160 SOLANACEAE. Vor. III. 
11. Physalis lanceolata Michx. Prairie 
Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3706. 
Physalis lanceolata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 149. 1803. 
Physalis pennsylvanica var. lanceolata -A. Gray, Man. 
Ed. 5, 382. 1867. 
Perennial; rootstock apparently slender and creep- 
ing; stem about 13° high, first erect, later spreading 
or diffuse, only slightly angled, sparingly hirsute with 
flat hairs. Leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate or spatu- 
late, tapering into the petiole, acute or obtuse, nearly 
always entire, rarely wavy, but never sinuately tooth- 
ed, thickish, sparingly hairy with short hairs; pe- 
duncles 5-10” long, in fruit reflexed; calyx strigose 
or villous, rarely glabrous, its lobes triangular-lan- 
ceolate; corolla dullish yellow with a brownish cen- 
ter, about 8” in diameter; fruiting calyx round- 
ovoid, not sunken at the base, indistinctly 10-angled; 
berry yellow or greenish yellow. 
On dry prairies, South Carolina to Illinois, South Da- 
kota, Wyoming, Kansas and New Mexico. July—Sept. 
12. Physalis pumila Nutt. Low Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3707. 
Physalis pumila Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II.) 5: 
193. 1834. : 
Physalis lanceolata var. hirta A. Gray, Proc. Am, Acad. 
Io: 68. 1874. 
Perennial from a slender rootstock, 13°-3° high; 
stem hirsute, obscurely angled. Leaves thick, broadly 
ovate to oblong, acute at both ends and somewhat 
rhomboid, the lower often obtuse and obovate, gen- 
erally much larger than in the preceding; blades 
2’-4’ long, entire or seldom sinuate, on petioles 
10-15” long, strigose with many-branched hairs 
especially on the lower surface; peduncles 5’-10” 
long, in fruit reflexed and 14’-2’ long; calyx 
densely hirsute, not stellate-pubescent, its lobes tri- 
angular, generally a little shorter than the tube; 
corolla yellow with brown center, 8-10” in diam- 
eter; fruiting calyx usually more elongated than in 
the preceding, 14’-2’ long, oblong-ovoid, a little 
sunken at the base, indistinctly 1o-angled. 
Plains and prairies, Illinois to Colorado and Texas. 
July—Sept. 
13. Physalis virginiana Mill. Virginia Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3708. 
Physalis virginiana Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, no. 4. 1768. 
Physalis pennsylvanica A, Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 382. 1867. 
Not L. 1753. 
Physalis virginiana intermedia Rydberg, Mem. Torr. Club 
4: 345. 1896. 
Perennial; rootstock thick and somewhat fleshy; 
stem 14°-3° high, erect, dichotomously branched, 
somewhat angular, more or less strigose-hairy with 
flat hairs, sometimes a little glandular, or sometimes 
nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, tapering to 
both ends, 14’-24’ long, generally more or less sin- 
uately dentate, often yellowish green; peduncles 5-10” 
long, generally erect, in fruit curved but scarcely re- 
flexed; calyx strigose, hirsute, or at least puberulent, 
its lobes triangular or broadly lanceolate, nearly equal- 
ling the tube; corolla sulphur-yellow’ with purplish 
spots, 3-1’ in diameter; anthers yellow; fruiting calyx 
pyramidal-ovoid, 5-angled, sunken at the base; berry 
reddish. ; 
Rich soil, especially in open places, Ontario to Manitoba 
Fra OTe Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and Texas. Consists of 
numerous races, differing in pubescence. July-Sept. Wild cherry. 
