A pretty, delicate, desert plant, irom six to eight inches high, with branching stems and light green leaves. It is sprinkled with pretty cream-yellow flowers, which are not spotted or dark in the center, with yellow anthers, and is hung with odd little green globes, each about three-quarters of an inch long, which are the inflated calyxes containing the berries.

Ground-cherry- Physalis crassifolia. POTATO FAMILY. Solanaceae.