ICOSANDRIA, POLYGYNEA. sit 
Asia (Siberia.) Are-there no Smee tit the southern he 
misphere? 
350. COMARUM. L. ‘tara Cinquefoil.) 
Culixw inferior, 10-cleft, 5 of the segments al- 
ternately smaller. | “Petals 5, smaller than the 
calix. Seeds even, attached to an ovate spongy 
persistent receptacle, not becoming a berry. 
A marsh plant; with pseudopinnated leaves, stipules 
‘growing to the petioles, and sheathing the stem; pedun- 
cles few-flowered axillary and terminal. Flowers brown- 
ish, leaves glaucous beneath, z 
Species. 1.C. palustre. Yn nearly all the western 
states and territories as far as Louisiana —A genus of but 
a single species, Commonto the whole nothern hemis- 
$51. FRAGARIA. Es (Strawberry Se ee 
Caliz inferior, 10-cleft, 5 of the oan oy 
ternately smaller. Petals 5. Receptacle of the — 
seed ovate and deciduous becoming a berry. 
Seeds even. 
Creeping herbaceous plants, often sending out filiform 
radicant stems in all directions which diminish neg 
tity of flowers and fruit; leaves ter ee rarely = ae 
tate, by cultivation sometimes simple¥'s stipules. pita tte 3 
the petiole; flowers often terminally corymbose, some- 
times dioicous; receptacle esculent. * 
Spercizs. 
| 
wet 
1. F. vesea: 0. in the wiste: of Oke ee - 
Lake 2: and. 3. canadensis. Bric 
Erie. virgini a. i 
A small but very widely dispersed genus, of 
ah 3 species in Europe, 1 in Surinam, lin chi aad 1 at 
uenos Ayres, in South aria ‘llow flowered spe-_ 
: cies has | r bee recently | introduced from India. 
352. CALYCANTHUS. ‘L. (Carolina All. -spice J 
Calis urceolate, the lower part entire, epee 
part multifid, squarrose, leaflets colored, pe 
Joid. Corolla none. Styles many. Seeds ste 
, makes, smooth and cartilaginous, included = ; : 
+ ey Odoriferous and. spicy shrubs with poreirs 
entire leaves destitute <a = 
-ventricose and succulent: calix. i 
