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leaflets rounded-obovate or rhombic-obovate, coarsely serrate, the lateral ones very oblique ; 
runners very slender; scape 1.5-2 dm. high, very slender, often with a foliaceous unifolio- 
late bract; flowers rather large, 1.5-2 cm. in diameter, on nodding pedicels; bractlets 
lanceolate, shorter than the ovate sepals, both acute; petals nearly orbicular, light rose- 
colored, almost twice as long as the sepals; mature fruit unknown, but achenes in the un- 
tipe ones superficial. 
TYPE LOCALITY : [Pine Creek, near Farmington Landing, Latah County,] Idaho. 
DISTRIBUTION : Type locality and Olga, Washington. 
= Fveseat set, beactectee (Hel) como. nove 
6. Fragaria bracteata Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 194. 1896. 
Fragaria vesca Hook. Fl. Bor. Am, 1: 184, in part. 1832. 
Fragaria vesca y T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 448, in part. 1840. 
Fragaria californica Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 174, in part. 1898. 
Fragaria retrorsa Greene, Ottawa Nat. 18: 216. 1905. 
Rootstock very short and rather thick; leaves very thin, somewhat glaucous, silky 
when young, glabrate in age, especially on the upper surface; petioles slender, 3-10 cm. 
long, silky with long white spreading or reflexed hairs; leaflets broadly rhombic-obovate, 
acute, coarsely toothed, 2-5 cm. long, the lateral ones very oblique; runners very slender, 
rather few; scape often ‘over 1 dm. high, often exceeding the leaves, silky with long 
spreading or reflexed hairs, often with a unifoliolate leafy bract, 2-8-flowered ; flowers 
1.5-2 cm. in diameter ; sepals and bracts lanceolate, acute; petals rounded-obovate, often 
nearly twice the length of the sepals; fruit somewhat elongate, ovoid or semi-ellipsoid, 
red, about 7.5 mm. in diameter and 10 mm. long; achenes superficial. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Santa Fé Creek, nine miles east of Santa Fé, New Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION : From British Columbia to California, New Mexico, and Montana. 
ILLUSTRATION: Bull. Torrey Club 25: pi. 339. 
7. Fragaria insularis Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Fragaria vesca Lowe, Man. Fl, Madeira 1: 246, in part. 1868. 
Rootstock very thick and short; leaves rather thin, sparingly silky on both sides, more 
densely so on the veins beneath, dark-green above, glaucous beneath ; petioles 2-7 cm. 
long, silky with spreading hairs; leaflets rounded-obovate, 2-4 cm. long, coarsely serrate 
with ovate teeth, rounded at the apex, subsessile; scape low, about equaling the leaves or 
less, silky with spreading hairs, often with a leafy bract; pedicels silky-strigose ; flowers 
1 cm. or less in diameter; hypanthium densely silky; bractlets linear-lanceolate, 2-3 mm. 
long ; sepals Jance-ovate, acuminate, about 3 mm. long in flower, in fruit spreading; petals 
white, obovate, a little exceeding the sepals; fruit red, subglobose, about 8 mm. in 
diameter; achenes superficial. 
Type collected at Cinchona, Jamaica, at an altitude of 1500 m., in 1906, Wm. Harris 9216 
(in herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). . ; ; 
DISTRIBUTION: On banks and in pastures, Jamaica, perhaps introduced; the same also 
native of the Azores, Madeira, etc. 
8. Fragaria vesca L. Sp. Pl. 494. 1753. 
Potentilla vesca Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2.1: 363. 1772. 
Fragaria vulgaris Hhrh., Beitr. 7: 21. 1792. 
Fragaria vulgaris alba Bhrh. Beitr. 7: 22. 1792. 
Fragaria vesca f. albicarpa Britt. Bull. Torrey Club 6; 323. 1879. 
Fragaria vesca alba Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2: 174. 1898. 
Fragaria americana alba Clute, Fl. Upper Susquehanna 35. 1898. 
Rootstock short and thick; leaves rather thin, short, silky when young, but glabrate 
on both sides in age, somewhat glaucous beneath; petioles somewhat stouter than in the 
related species, often 1-2 dm. long, silky with spreading hairs; leaflets rhombic-obovate, 
mostly acutish, 2-10 cm. long, coarsely serrate, sometimes short-petiolulate, especially the 
terminal one; runners long and slender; scape often as high as the leaves, often with a 
foliaceous bract similar to the leaflets, several-flowered, silky with spreading hairs, the 
pedicels, however, appressed-hairy ; flowers 1-1.5 cm. in diameter; sepals and bractlets. 
from ovate to lanceolate, acute, slightly silky, about 6 mm. long; fruit usually subspheric, 
1-1.5 cm, in diameter, red or whitish ; achenes superficial. 
