. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2. POTATO FAMILY. 161. 14. Physalis heterophylla Nees. Clammy Ground1Cherry. Fig. 3709. Physalis viscosa Pursh, FI. Am. Sept. 157. 1814. Not L- 1753- Physalis heterophylla Nees, Linnaea 6: 463. 1831. Physalis virginiana A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 235. 1878. Not Mill. 1768. Perennial from a slender creeping rootstock, ii°-3° tall, at first erect, later g
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2. POTATO FAMILY. 161. 14. Physalis heterophylla Nees. Clammy Ground1Cherry. Fig. 3709. Physalis viscosa Pursh, FI. Am. Sept. 157. 1814. Not L- 1753- Physalis heterophylla Nees, Linnaea 6: 463. 1831. Physalis virginiana A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 235. 1878. Not Mill. 1768. Perennial from a slender creeping rootstock, ii°-3° tall, at first erect, later generally decumbent and spreading, viscid and glandular, and villous with long spreading jointed flat hairs; leaves large, blade generally over 2' long, usually broadly cordate, often acute and very rarely with an elongated tip, thick, more or less sinuately toothed, or sometimes suben- tire; calyx long-villous, lobes triangular, generally shorter than the tube; corolla 8"-io" in diameter, greenish yellow with a brownish or purplish center; anthers mostly yellow; berry yellow. In rich soil, especially where the surface has been disturbed, New Brunswick to Saskatchewan, Florida, Colorado and Texas. The most common of our species, and includes several races. Physalis peruviana L., a native of South America, is cultivated for its fruit and often escapes. It resembles P. heterophylla, but differs in the leaves, which have a long tip, and in the pubes- cence, which is shorter, denser, and not at all viscid. Cape gooseberry. Strawberry tomato. Peruvian ground-cherry. Husk tomato. 15. Physalis comata Rydberg. Hillside Ground-Cherry. Fig. 3710. P. comata Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Club 22: 306. 1895. Perennial, erect, about li° high; pubescence fine and short, that on the calyx, peduncles and upper branches mixed with long white flat jointed hairs. Like P. heterophylla Nees (P. virginiana Gray, not Mill.), but leaves smaller, blade not over 2' long, round-ovate, scarcely at all c
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