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serted on the tube. Ovary entire, 2-celled (Rarely 3-5- 
celled.) Style slender, simple. Fruit a berry or capsule. 
Anthers unconnected, destitute of terminal pores, de¬ 
hiscent. 
Fruit calyx bladdery-inflated. 
Corolla open-campanulate, yellowish or whitish, 
often with a dark center; seeds with a thin mar¬ 
gin, finely pitted. I. Physalis. 
Corolla flat-rotate, violet or purple; seeds thick, 
rugose-tuberculate. II. Quincula. 
Fruiting calyx somewhat enlarged, but closely fitted 
to the fruit, thin, obscurely veiny, open at the 
mouth. III. Chamaesaracha. 
Anthers connivent or slightly connate, fruiting calyx 
not enlarged. IV. Solanum. 
I. PHYSALIS L. 
Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or pubescent. 
Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers axillary, usually soli¬ 
tary. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, accrescent and be¬ 
coming bladder-like in fruit, 5-angled or prominently 10- 
ribbed. Corolla yellow or whitish, campanulate or funnel- 
form, often with a darker, brownish or purplish center. 
Stamens adnate to the base of corolla. Stigma 2-cleft. 
Seeds numerous, kidney-shaped, flattened, finely pitted. 
Annuals with branched, fibrous roots. 
1. P. missouriensis. 
Perennial by thick roots and rootstocks. 2. P. comata. 
Physalis missouriensis Mack. & Bush. Missouri Ground 
Cherry. Annual. Stem spreading, striate or slightly angled, vil¬ 
lous, with short hairs. Leaves long, ovate, repand or sin- 
uately-dentate. Calyx villous, lobes shorter than the tube. Corolla 
i n diameter, yellow. Fruiting calyx 7"-10" long, round- 
ovoid, nearly filled by the berry, scarcely sunken. 
In waste places. May-September. Oklahoma County. 
2. Physalis comata Rydb. Hillside Ground Cherry. Peyen- 
