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# # Stems very short and tufted on a branching roptstock: fruiting calyx hemispherical, open: 

 seeds very flat, smoothish and minutely punctate. 



C. nana, Gray. Seldom » span high, sometimes nearly acaulescent, minutely cinereous 

 with appressed pubescence, not viscid : leaves crowded and large in proportion, oblong- 

 ovate and ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute, entire or undulate, an inch or two long, and with 

 the roundish or cuneate base abruptly contracted into a margined petiole of about equal 

 length : peduncles mostly shorter than the petioles : rotate corolla white or bluish, 7 to 9 

 lines wide. — Saracha (Chamasaracha) nana, Gray, Proc. I.e. — Sierra Co., California, at 

 about 5,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada, Bolander, Lemmon. 



7. PH"xTSALIS, L. Ground Cheery, ((frvaalig, a bladder, from the 

 bladdery-inflated fruiting calyx which characterizes the genus.) — Herbs, chiefly 

 American or of probably American origin ; with entire, toothed, or lobed leaves, 

 very commonly geminate, and solitary or sometimes geminate (rarely ternate) 

 drooping or nodding pedicels ; the flowers small or middle-sized, white, yellow, or 

 violet-purple: berries greenish, red, or yellow, often edible. — Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. x. 62. 



§ 1. Chailephysalis, Gray, 1. c. Young parts sparsely (or on stalks and 

 calyx densely) scurfy-granuliferous, otherwise quite glabrous : some leaves sinu- 

 ate-pinnatifid : corolla flat-rotate : anthers short, yellow : seeds comparatively few 

 and large, thickish and somewhat rugose-tuberculate round the back. (Habit 

 nearly of Ckamcesaracha, but fruiting calyx of true Physalis.) 



P. lobata, Torr. Low and small, diffusely branched from a perennial root : leaves ob- 

 long-spatulate or obovate, from repand to sinuate-pinnatifid (an inch or two long), the base 

 cuneately tapering into a margined petiole : pedicels commonly geminate, longer than the 

 flower: corolla violet (probably never "yellow"), 6 to 9 lines in diameter, the centre with 

 a 5-6-rayed white-woolly star : globular-inflated fruiting calyx strongly 5-angled, half inch 

 or more long, with short bluntish teeth. — Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. 226 (1826) & Bot. Mex. • 

 Bound. 152. P. Sabeana, Buckley in Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861. Solarium luteoliflorum, 

 Dunal in DC. Prodr. 1. c. 64, at least as to var. subintegrifolium. — Plains, Texas to Colorado 

 and W. Arizona. 



§2. Physalis proper. Not granulose-scurfy : leaves never pinnatifid : corolla 

 mostly rotately spreading from a somewhat campanulate throat or base : seeds 

 with a thin and even margin. 



P. Alkekengi, L., the Winter Cherry of the south of Europe, with white 5-lobed corolla 

 and a red berry in a calyx which turns red also, and 



P. Peruviana, L., the Cape Gooseberry, with greenish-yellow corolla spotted by a brown- 

 purple star in the centre, and a yellow berry, — both perennial-rooted species, — were intro- 

 duced into cultivation several years ago, for their esculent fruit, under the name of 

 Strawberry Tomato. But they have now mainly disappeared. 



P. Carpenterii, Riddell, Cat. Fl. Ludov. (N. O.Med. & Surg. Jour. viii. 758, 1852, name 

 only), referred to Witlixmia Morisoni, in Bot. Gazette, iii. 11, is some adventitious Athenoza. 



# Corolla pure white or tinged with blue, wholly destitute of any dark centre, tomentose at the 

 throat, proportionally large, widely rotate, with border almost entire : pubescence simple : fruit- 

 ing calyx ovate-globose. 



P. grandiflora, Hook. Annual, with stout erect stem 2 feet or more high, viscid-pu- 

 bescent and young parts villous with some long and slender viscid hairs : leaves oblong- 

 ovate or lanceolate-ovate, acute or acuminate, mostly entire: pedicels often in threes, 

 shorter than the flower : calyx-lobes lanceolate : corolla often an inch and » half in diam- 

 eter : anthers yellow, commonly with a tinge of violet : fruiting calyx less than an inch 

 long, well filled and distended by the berry, the angles therefore obsolete, and the summit 

 open. — PI. ii. 90; Gray, Man., & Proc. Am. Acad. x. 63, 381. — S. shore of Lake Superior 

 to the Saskatchewan district, springing up in new clearings. Connects with Chanuesaracka 

 through. C. nana. 



