Description | Botanical study of a specimen of physalis, common name winter cherry. A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants sent from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society... 1726', by Isaac Rand, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society volume 35, issue 399 (1729), p.293.
Green leafy plant, showing flowers in bud. Inscribed in ink 'Alkekengi Barbadense, patulum, parvo flore, fructu amplo, mucrone productioni Act. Phil n.399'. Not signed. |