. Elementary botany [microform]. Botany; Botanique. 154 SCROPUULAHIACE^.. m lar, W« grounds and fields; common, appearing as if introduced, but a cosmopolite. July-Sept. 2. PHYSALIS, L. Ground Cherry. Calyx 5-cleft, reticulated and enlarging after flowering, at length much inflated and enclosing the 2-cellod globular (edible) berry. Corolla between wheel-shaped and funnel-form, the very short tube marked with 5 concave spots at the base ; the plaited border some- what 5-lobed .or barely 5-10-toothed. Stamens 5, erect; anthers separate opening lengthwiseâHerbs (in tliis country), wi
. Elementary botany [microform]. Botany; Botanique. 154 SCROPUULAHIACE^.. m lar, W« grounds and fields; common, appearing as if introduced, but a cosmopolite. July-Sept. 2. PHYSALIS, L. Ground Cherry. Calyx 5-cleft, reticulated and enlarging after flowering, at length much inflated and enclosing the 2-cellod globular (edible) berry. Corolla between wheel-shaped and funnel-form, the very short tube marked with 5 concave spots at the base ; the plaited border some- what 5-lobed .or barely 5-10-toothed. Stamens 5, erect; anthers separate opening lengthwiseâHerbs (in tliis country), with the leaves often unequally in pairs, and the 1-flowered nodding peduncles extra-axillary; flowering through the summer. (Name v(7r-^.i(, a bladder, from the inflated calyx.) * CaroUa large, white or tinged with blue, without dark centre, with almost entire border ; pubescence simple. 1. P. grandiflora, . Hook. Clammy-pubescent, erect; leaves lance-ovate, pointed, entire or nearly so; corolla 1-2' wide when expanded, and with a woolly ring in the throat; f. utin^ calyx globular, apparently nearly filled by the to Sask. Corolla lurid greenlsh-white or yellow, mostly with dark centre 3-10" broad. ' â t Strong-scented, villous or pubescent with viscid or glaUtdar simple hairs; frmtiug calyx ovate-pyramidal, carinately 5-angled closed, loosely enveloping the green or yellow berry , ^eaves ovate or cordate. 2. P. Virginiana, Mill. Perennial, diff-usely much branched and widely spreading, or at first erect; leaves sometimes repand or obtusely toothed, rarely entire; corolla 9-12" broad 5-angled or 5-10-toothed; anthers yelhrv. (P. viscosa. Gray, Man ' nob i>.)âLight or sandy soils, Ont. and Minn. "' Order 50. SCROPHULARIACE^ (Figwort Family). Chiefly herbs (rarely trees), with didynamous stamens (or perfect stamens often only 2, rarely 5) inserted on the tube of the or more or less irregular corolla, the lobes of which are imbricated
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