SOLANACEAE. Von, UI. 
17. Physalis viscdsa L. Stellate Ground- 
Cherry. Yellow-henbane. Fig. 3712. 
Physalis viscosa 1. Sp. Pl 183. 1753. 
Physalis pennsylvanica L, Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 1670, 1763. 
Perennial from a slender creeping rootstock; slems 
slender, creeping, with a dense ashy stellate pubes- 
cence, or in age rarely glabrate. Leaves elliptic, 
oval or ovate, obtuse, thinish, entire or undulate, in 
the typical South American race often cordate at 
the base, but rarely so in our plant; peduncles 4’-1' 
long; calyx stellate-pubescent, its lobes triangular, 
generally shorter than the tube; corolla greenish 
yellow with a darker center, 8-10” in diameter; 
fruiting calyx 10-15” long, round-ovoid, scarcely 
sunken at the base; berry orange or yellow. 
On sea beaches, or in sand near the coast, Virginia 
and North Carolina to Florida. Eastern South America. 
Physalis Alkekéngi L., Strawberry tomato or Winter cherry, is a native of Europe and Asia, 
often cultivated for its fruit and sometimes escapes from cultivation, The flowers are whitish, 
the limb distinctly 5-lobed; leaves broadly deltoid, acute at both ends, repand or angulately 
toothed. 
3. QUINCULA Raf. Atl. Journ. 145. 1832. 
A low and diffuse somewhat scurfy herb, with a stout perennial root. Leaves from sinuate 
to pinnatifid, somewhat fleshy. Peduncles most commonly in pairs from the axils of the 
leaves, sometimes solitary, or in fascicles of 3-5. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, in fruit 
inflated, sharply s-angular and reticulate, enclosing the fruit, the lobes connivent. Corolla 
flat-rotate, pentagonal in outline, veiny, violet or purplish. Anthers opening by a longi- 
tudinal slit. Seeds comparatively few, kidney-shaped, somewhat flattened, with thick margins, 
rugose-tuberculate. [Name unexplained.] 
A monotypic genus of central North America. 
1. Quincula lobata (Torr.) Raf. Purple- 
flowered Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3713. 
Physalis lobata Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 226, 1827. 
Quincula lobata Raf. Atl. Journ. 145. 1832. 
Perennial, low, spreading or prostrate, more or 
less scurfy-puberulent; stem obtusely angled and 
striate, much branched. Leaves oblanceolate or 
spatulate to oblong, sinuately toothed, or pinnatifid 
with rounded lobes, or rarely subentire, cuneate at 
the base, thickish and veiny, tapering into margined 
petioles; peduncles 1’-2’ long, in fruit reflexed; calyx- 
lobes triangular, acute, shorter than the tube; corolla 
purplish, 10-15” in diameter; anthers yellow, tinged 
with purple; fruiting calyx about as wide as long, 
sharply 5-angled, sunken at the base. 
On high plains, Kansas to California, Texas, New 
Mexico and Mexico. May-Sept. 
4. LEUCOPHYSALIS Rydberg, Mem. Torr. Club 4: 365. 1806. 
A tall erect viscid and villous annual, with entire leaves, the blade decurrent on the 
petiole. Peduncles generally in fascicles of 2-4 in the axils. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, at 
first a little inflated, but soon filled by and closely fitted to the berry, thin, neither angled 
nor ribbed, faintly veiny, open at the mouth, the lobes exceeding the fruit. Corolla rotate, 
white, sometimes tinged with purple and generally creamy or yellow in the center, the limb 
plicate. Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla; filaments long and slender; anthers 
oblong, opening by a longitudinal slit. Style and stigmas as in Physalis. Seeds kidney- 
shaped, flattened, punctate. [Greek, white Physalis.] 
A monotypic genus of northern North America. 
