C. Coronopus grows in clayey soil from Kansas to Utah, California and Mexico. It is very variable and the more hairy forms grade into the less hirsute ones of the preceding. In the typical form the pubescence is sparse or nearly none, and the lobes of the leaves are short.

Texas: Wright, no. 534, 1849; Mex. Bound. Surv. no. 1036; Bigelow, 1852 (Mex. Bound. Surv.); Lindheimer, no. 484, 1847-8; Reverchon, no. 1569; E. Hall, no. 496, 1872; Edw. Palmer, no. 920, 1880; A. A. Heller, no. 1647, 1894; Dr. V. Havard, no. 166, 1881; W. Garret, 1881.

Colorado: T. S. Brandegee, 1872.

New Mexico: Fendler, 675, 1847; C. Wright, no. 1593, 1852; M. E. Jones, no. 4147, 1884; E. L. Greene, 1880.

Arizona: Dr. E. A. Mearns, no. 214, 1884; McDougal, no. 524, 1891; Mrs. R. W. Hoyt, 1893; C. G. Pringle, 1883.

Utah: Capt. Bishop, 1872; Mrs. Thompson, no. 144, 1872. California: W. F. Parish, 1884.

Mexico: Berlandier, no. 3023; Thurber, no. 730, 1852; Parry & Palmer, no. 653, 1878 (in part); Edw. Palmer, no. 926 (in part), 927 & 928, 1880.

The most striking of the different forms of this species is a very low (1 dm. high or less) and bushy one, more stellate-pubescent and with much smaller leaves which are pinnatifid with very narrow lobes. It is represented by the following:

Texas: C. Wright, no. 534, 1849; Bigelow, 1852 (Mex. Bound. Surv.).

New Mexico: C. Wright, no. 1594, 1851-2; Rusby, no. 302, 1880.

Mexico: Dr. Gregg; Parry & Palmer, no. 653 (in part) 1878.

6. Oryctes Wats.

ORYCTES Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 274. 1871.

Low, viscid-puberulent annual, with entire undulate leaves. Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, with lobes longer than the tube, in fruit enlarged, membranaceous, but not inflated, closely fitting the fruit, neither ribbed nor angled, faintly veined. Corolla tubular with five short lobes, yellowish or purple. Stamens inserted below the middle of the tube, included, unequal, with very short anthers opening by a longitudinal slit. Fruit nearly dry, light

colored. Seeds nearly orbicular, very flat, faveolate-reticulate with a thin membranaceous margin.

Oryctes consists of one species, discovered and described by Dr. Watson. The original collection lacked specimens in good fruit, and his description is a little imperfect. Good fruiting specimens have been collected by Shockley, and these show that the fruiting calyx is enlarged just as much as it is in Chamaesaracha, which the plant also resembles somewhat in habit, and that the seeds are wing-margined.

1. Oryctes Nevadensis Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 274. 1871. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: part 1, 232.

Less than 1 dm. high, erect, branched, somewhat scurfy and viscid-pruinose, a little pilose with flat hairs; leaves ovate, obovate or lanceolate, decurrent on the petiole, entire, undulate, somewhat thickish; flowers in fascicles of 2-4 in the axils of the leaves, on short peduncles; calyx-lobes lanceolate, obtuse, shorter than the corolla; corolla tubular, about 6 mm. long, ochroleucous, blue or purplish; sinuses induplicate; berry nearly dry, light colored.

Western Nevada: Watson, no. 941, 1868 (type); Shockley,

1888.

Index to the Monograph of Physalis and related Genera.

Alicabon Raf. Physalis L.
Barbadense = P. Barbadensis
Alkekengi Tourn. Physalis L.
P. viscosa

fissum Moench

officinarum Moench P. Alkekengi
procumbens Moench

pubescens Moench=P, Peruviana.
Athenaea

Athenaea sp. Gray P. Carpenteri
Capsicum

Herschella Bowdich = Physalis.
edulis Bowdich

P. Peruviana.

LEUCOPHYSALIS Rydberg
grandiflora (Hook) Rydberg.
Lycopersicum

MARGARANTHUS Schlecht.

3

Lemmoni Gray = No. 4
purpurascens Rydberg = No.
solanaceus Schlecht. No. 2
tenuis Miers No. 1 .
Megista Tourr. = Physalis.
maxima = P. Alkekengi.

ORYCTES Wats.

CHAMAESARACHA Gray..

crenata n. sp. No. 2..
Coronopus (Dunal) Gray = No. 4
Coronopus S. Wats. = C. crenata, C. coni-
oides, etc..

368-9
369
367

314,

conioides (Moric.) Britton = No. 3.
nana Gray = No. 1. ..
physaloides Greene Physalis Wrightii. . 331
sordida Gray == C. conioides
villosa n. sp....

369

368

Nevadensis Wats..

318

327

318

356

364
• 323
347

• 319, 320

atriplicifolia Jacq.
Barbadensis Lam. =

• 314, 330
315

315, 367
368
370

318
· 347
315, 365
366
.315

315
. 317
317
316, 3:8
299, 316
314, 318
364

. 315, 371
. 372

PHYSALIS L..

..315, 318
aequata Jacq. ixocarpa. 307, 308, 334
Alkekengi L. No. 39. 301, 307, 314, 322, 364
Alkekengi digitalifolia Dunal (Mex.).
Alkekengi digitalifolia Torr. == P. heder-
312, 351

312

aefolia.

ambigua (Gray) Britton = heterophylla am-
bigua.

angulata L. No. 12
301, 302, 307, 311, 320, 332, 333
ingulata Ruiz & Pav. = lanceifolia... 331.
angulata Spreng. Philadelphica (in part) 336 |
angulata Walt. Barbadensis obscura
angulata Linkiana Gray = angulata
302, 331, 333

• 327

angulata Philadelphica Philadelphica. 336
angustifolia Nutt. No. 34. 310, 318, 321, 360
arenaria Nees = angulata
arenicola Kearney = No. 21

....333

299, 305, 309, 320, 345
Philadelphica. 336, 338
Peruviana latifolia
305, 347
Barbadensis Jacq. = No. 5
301, 303, 308, 309, 319, 322, 325, 326
Barbadensis Sendtner = (?) Barbadensis

obscura.

No. 5 var.

Barbadensis obscura
Brasiliensis Sendtner = Barbadensis ob-
scura...
328
362

cardiophylla Newberry = crassifolia
cardiophylla Torr. crassifolia cardio-

phylla....

362

.

349

328
327

Carpenteri Riddell

= No. 9

=

299, 305, 307, 313, 319, 330
chenopodifolia Lam. (Mex)
.. 307
chenopodifolia Willd. = Philadelphica
307, 308, 336, 338
ciliata Sieb. & Zucc (?) angulata
ciliosa Rydberg No. 22.
cinerascens Hitchcock pumila.
comata Rydberg No. 25.
crassifolia Benth= No. 36.
crassifolia Brandegee = hastata
crassifolia cardiophylla (Torr.) Gray
36, var...
digitalifolia Britton = P. hederaefolia
divaricata Don

333
300, 320, 346
311, 342
• 321, 350
321, 362

363

No.

362
312, 351

..317

.. 302
302, 333
305, 347
312, 321, 359

Peruviana

dubia Gmelin
dubia Link = = angulata.
edulis Sims Peruviana
Elliotti Kunze No. 33.
esculenta Salisb.
346
esculenta Willd.
305
Fendleri Gray
No. 31.
312, 321, 358
Fendleri cordifolia Gray No. 31, var..
358
fuscomaculata De Rouv. = No. 32. 321, 359
glabra Benth. (Mex.)
glabra Brandegee hastata
grandiflora Hook Leucophysalis grandi-
313, 314.366
304, 319, 329
364

.363
363

flora

Greenei Rose No. 7.
Halicacabum Crantz Alkekengi
hastata Rydberg No. 37. .299, 321, 363
hederaefolia Gray No. 26. 312, 313, 321, 351
hederaefolia Holzinger rotundata
heterophylla Nees =
No. 24

• 352

300, 302, 305, 306, 307, 209, 311, 321, 344, 347
heterophylla ambigua (Gray) Rydberg No.

24, var.

heterophylla umbrosa Rydberg.
hirsuta Dunal pubescens
hirsuta Marc. & Gal. (Mex.)
hirsuta Barbadensis Dunal
sis..

• 343, 349
⚫ 349
302, 303, 323
322

326

Barbaden-
hirsuta repando-dentata Dunal 'prui-
nosa and Barbadensis obscura.
324, 328
Indica Lam. minima.
304
ixocarpa Brot. No. 13. . 308, 320, 334, 337
Jacquini Link = (?) viscosa maritima... 357
Jacquini Dunal= (?) mollis parvifolia.. 355
Lagascae Roem. & Sch. No. 6. 305, 319, 328
lanceifolia Nees = No. 11

299, 311, 312, 320, 331
lanceolata Ell. viscosa or Elliotti