358 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumE 22 
more or less scarious and pinkish; flowers usually 2-3.5 cm. in diameter; hypanthium, 
sepals, and bractlets silky-strigose; bractlets and sepals oblong or lanceolate, acute or 
mucronate; petals broadly obovate, exceeding the sepals by about a half; fruit hemispheric, 
1.5-2 em. in diameter, quite hairy; achenes nearly superficial, set in shallow pits. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Conception, Chile. 
DISTRIBUTION: From Alaska to California, and in South America from Peru to Patagonia; 
also on the Sandwich Islands, and cultivated in many parts of the world. 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Rev. Hortic. IV.2: £1.2; Decaisne, Jard. Fr. Mus. Frag. 52, p/.; Duham. 
Nat. Erdb. p/. 3. 
2. Fragaria crinita Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia ' 
Univ. 2: 171. 1898. 
Rootstock short and thick, but not so much so as in J. chiloensis ; leaves firm but 
much thinner than in that species, less veiny beneath and not reticulate, silky above when 
young, in age glabrate, densely silky and slightly tomentulose beneath; petioles slender, 
2-10 cm. long, covered with spreading or reflexed, long white silky hairs ; leaflets all sub- 
sessile, rhombic-obovate, the lateral oblique at the base, more sharply toothed than in F. 
chiloensis, and the terminal tooth seldom much smaller than the others; runners slender 
and long; scape seldom over 1 dm. high, with spreading long silky hairs, slender, seldom 
with leafy bracts; flowers 2-3cm. in diameter; hypanthium silky; bractlets and sepals silky, 
narrowly lanceolate, acuminate ; petals obovate, exceeding the sepals by abouta third ; fruit 
hemispheric, nearly 1 cm. in diameter, somewhat pubescent ; achenes in shallow pits. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Washington. 
DISTRIBUTION : British piers ae to eer , 
= Fo vesca bh. se Orica + ined. Bee Cashing ae “A 
3. Fragaria cali ornica Cham. & Schlecht. Linnaea 2: 20. 1827. "*7 
Fragaria vesca y T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 448, in part. 1840. 
? Fragaria lucida Vilmorin ; Gay, Aun. Sci. Nat. IV. 8: 201. 1857. 
Fragaria californica franciscana Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2: 173. 1898. 
Rootstock short but not very thick, crowned by several rather thin leaves; stipules 
ovate-lanceolate, brown ; petioles slender, 3-10 cm. long, sparingly covered with long, white, 
silky, spreading or reflexed hairs; terminal leaflet 2-5 cm. long, rounded-obovate, obtuse, 
coarsely serrate, subsessile, glabrate above, appressed-silky beneath; lateral ones similar 
but very oblique at the base; runners long and slender; scapes usually several, 2-5-flow- 
ered, slender, silky with spreading or reflexed hairs, usually less than 1 dm. high and 
seldom leafy-bracteate; flowers 1-1.5 cm. in diameter; hypanthium silky ; bractlets usually 
somewhat shorter than the sepals, both silky, lanceolate, acuminate or acute; petals 
obovate, very little exceeding the sepals; fruit hemispheric, 1-1.5 cm. in diameter ; achenes 
in shallow pits. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Not given, but evidently somewhere in California, probably near San 
Francisco. 
DISTRIBUTION : California to Lower California and New Mexico. 
F.vesca &. Sep me¢ieama (Schlechty ciimh. nev. ACO: Crerging date 
4, Fragaria mexicana Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 265. 1839. 4:7 
Rootstock very short, crowned by a few leaves and a solitary scape; leaves rather thin, 
soon glabrate above, silky beneath ; petioles about 5 dm. long, slender, silky with spread- 
ing or reflexed hairs; leaflets oblong-obovate or cuneate, coarsely serrate, 2-3 cm. long, 
the lateral ones oblique at the base, but less so than in F. californica; runners long and 
slender; scape generally about 5 cm. high, seldom over 10 cm. high, with spreading silky 
hairs, slender and 1-4-flowered ; flowers seldom over 1 cm. in diameter; sepals and bract- 
lets lanceolate and silky, as also the hypanthium ; petals obovate, a little exceeding the 
sepals; fruit subhemispheric, 0.75-1 cm. in diameter; achenes superficial. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jalapa, Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION : Central Mexico, also apparently in Lower California. 
= Foeveten vet. tosen Kestr. 
5. Fragaria Helleri Holz. Bot. Gaz. 21: 36. 1896. “°*7 
Fragaria sp. Holz. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 222. 1895. 
Rootstock rather slender; leaves very thin, glabrate above, finely silky beneath; 
petioles, as well as scapes, very slender, sparingly silky, or glabrate in age, 5-10 cm. long; 
