POTATO FAMILY. Solanaceae. 
lands, reaching an altitude of six thousand feet. It is used 
as a narcotic by the Indians and resembles D. stramdnium, 
Jimson-weed, from Asia, common in the East and found 
also in the West, but it is far handsomer. D. suavedlens, 
Floriponda or Angels’ Trumpets, is a large shrub, with very 
large, pendulous, creamy flowers, and is often cultivated 
in the old mission gardens in California. The flowers are 
very fragrant at night. 
There are many kinds of Physalis, most of them Ameri- 
can, difficult to distinguish; herbs, often slightly woody 
below; flowers whitish or yellowish; corolla more or less 
bell-shaped, with a plaited border; style slender, somewhat 
bent, with a minutely two-cleft stigma. In fruit the calyx 
becomes large and inflated, papery, angled and ribbed, 
wholly enclosing the pulpy berry, which contains numerous, 
flat, kidney-shaped seeds. The name is from the Greek, 
meaning ‘‘bladder,’’ and refers to the inflated calyx, and 
the common names, Ground-cherry and Strawberry- 
tomato, are suggested by the fruit, which is juicy, often 
red or yellow, and in some kinds is edible. 
Grud gee A pretty, delicate, desert plant, from 
Pires six to eight inches high, with branching 
crassifolia stems and light green leaves. It is 
Yellow sprinkled with pretty cream-yellow 
Southwest 
flowers, which are not spotted or dark in 
the center, with yellow anthers, and is hung with odd little 
green globes, each about three-quarters of an inch long, 
which are the inflated calyxes containing the berries. 
a Oe A straggling perennial plant, about a 
Phsvalis Féndleri 100t high, with widely-branching, rough- 
Yellow ish stems, springing from a deep tuberous 
Summer root. The leaves are dull green, roughish, 
Ariz., Utah 
rather coarse in texture, but not large, 
mostly less than an inch long, coarsely and irregularly 
toothed, and the flowers are the shape of a shallow Morn- 
ing-glory, half an inch across, pale dull-yellow, marked 
with brown inside, with yellow anthers. This does not 
bear its berries close to the ground, as do many of its 
relations, and is not pretty. It grows in dry places, reach- 
ing an altitude of eight thousand feet. 
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