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or doubly crenate or toothed or serrate, base cuneate entire, nerves parallel ; petiole 

 1-5 in., very slender; stipules leafy, toothed. Peduncles very slender, equalling the 

 petioles, naked. Flowers \~\ in. diam. Calyx-lobes ovate or lanceolate ; bracteoles 

 narrow or broad, often greatly exceeding the calyx-lobes, rarely quite entire,^ PetaU 

 obovate, cordate, yellow. Fruit spherical or oblong, bright red, spongy, insipid; 

 achenes minute, obscurely pitted. 



A very variable plant. I refer Potentilla denticulosa doubtfully to it on the 

 authority of J. Gay (in Herb.), who has further verified the reference of the Ameri- 

 can P. Vurandii to F, indica ; M. E. Durand in 1860 having informed him that this 

 plant was sent to him from Savannah, where it grew in the streets, and was no douot 

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Flowers white. 



2. P. vesca, Linn. ; leaflets sessile or nearly so many-toothed, frui* 

 globose or subglobose, calyx-teeth usually entire. 



Var, nuhicola ; slender, silvery, nearly glabrous, runners filiform, hairs on peti- 

 oles and few flowered peduncles appressed, calyx-lobes narrow spreading in fruit. *. 

 nubicoia, LindL in Wall, Cat, 1238. . , 



Var. ? collina, slender or stout runners with spreading hairs, hairs on petioles ana 

 few- or many-flowered peduncles more copious spreading, calyx-lobes narrower broad 

 spreading or suberect in fruit. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Murkee and Kashmir, alt.'S- 10,000 ft., to Sikkim, alt 

 6-13,000 ft. — DisTRiB. F, vesca, Affghanistan, Java, N. temp, zone. 



I am quite unable to identify the Indian strawberries by means of the chmcters 

 given by authors to the European species, which differ in their several works. F* vesca 

 is defined by Boissier (Fl, Orient.) as having the petioles with spreading hairs, and tne 

 peduncles with spreading or appressed ones ; Ledebour (FL Ross,) describes the hairs 

 of its peduncles as appressed, and Decaisne (Jardin fruitier) as spreading, ^^^. 

 common Himalayan Fragaria the hairs of both petals and peduncles are appressed m 

 some forms, in others those of the petiole are spreading and of the peduncle appressea* 

 and in still others both petiole and peduncle have spreading hairs. As the specimens 

 with most appressed hairs appear from dried specimens to have spreading calyx-lobe 

 I have referred them to B, vesca as var, nuhigena. I must remark however that . 

 Gay, who was the greatest living authority on Fragaria, and to whom I sent a serie. 

 of specimens, has regarded most of them as F. collina, but evidently with doubt; tor 

 Simla and a Kashmir specimen he tickets F. collina 1 and then crosses out the mar 

 of interrogation, and a Kishtwar specimen he tickets Grst elatior? and ^^^^.^^^^^flc^Q 

 name out substituting collina ? and finally crosses out the mark of interrogation: of tn 

 marked collina by Gay; some have appressed, others spreading hairs on both pe 

 cle and petiole. The Sikkim specimens, again, which I describe above as var. nu - 

 cola, are marked F. v^^m without a doubt by M. Gay. This slender silvery ion 

 occurs throughout the temperate Himalaya ; it has often small accessory pinnules 

 the petiole fiir below the tip and toothed or entire calyx -lobes. 



3. P. nUgerrensia, SchldL in Hohmack. Plant, Ind. Or. ^^^^'^_ 

 1518 ; veiy robust, runners petioles and peduncles clothed with long stout spr 

 ing hairs, fruit subglobose or depressed, calyx-lobes entire spreading or 8^"^j 

 in fruit, j; Guy in Ann. Sc. Nat. Se)\ 4, viii. 200. F. elatior, Tftff^^ ^ ^' ' 

 Prodr. 300 ; Wight Ic. t. 988, 



Khasia Mts., alt. 6000 ft. J. B. K # T. T. Niixjhiri Mts., Wig^i* &c- ^^]^ 

 This will probably prove to be another form of F. vesca, and I find an app ^^.^ 

 to it amongst the Himalayan specimens of that plant; and there are specimen ^^.^ 

 marked as from Sikkim in Griffiths collection, but they are probably from -*^ ^. 

 and mislabelled. Gay who elaborately describes it says that the calyx-lobes are ^^^ 

 this they seem to be in dried specimens, but Wight's excellent figure (which uay ^.^.^ 

 not refer to) shows them to be spreading. The fruit is white with a pale pinK ^^^ 

 and not worth eating ; it is globose and inclined to be conoidal in the Nilgl"" i 



a very depressed sphere in Khasia. 



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