360 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumME 22 
TYPE LOCALITY : Europe. 
, DISTRIBUTION : Native of Europe, sometimes cultivated and occasionally escaped in the eastern 
United States and Canada; origin of the ‘‘ Alpine Strawberries”; apparently native in the moun- 
tain regions of New England and Canada. ‘The white-fruited form is native and grows in open 
woods and on road-sides from northern New York to Connecticut, Kentucky, and eastern Ohio. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Lam. Tab. Encyc. p/. #42; Sturm, Fl. Dents. 2: 67.2; Schrank, Fl. Monac. 
pl. 39; Dietr. Fl. Bor. 5: f/. 318; Sv. Bot. pi. 16; Engl. Bot. p/. 7524; Baxter, Brit. Bot. pl. 
242 ;, Fl. Dan. pl. 1235; Hayne, Arzn. Gew. 4: £/. 26; Decaisne, Jard. Fruit. £/. 1; Thome, FI. 
Deuts. 3: pl. 408; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1910. 
9, )Fragaria americana (Porter) Britton, Bull. Torrey 
Club 19: 222. 1892. 
Fragaria vesca Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 357, mainly. 1814. Not F. vesca L. 
Fragaria canadensis Eat. Man. ed, 7. 306, in part. 1836. Not 7. canadensis Michx. 1803. 
Fragaria vesca BT. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 448. 1840. 
»Fragaria vesca americana Porter, Bull. Torrey Club 17: 15. 1890. 
Rootstock short but not thick; leaves very thin, very soon glabrate on both sides; 
petioles slender, 5-10 cm. long, sparingly silky, with less spreading hairs than in the re- 
lated species, or glabrate; leaflets 3-8 cm. long, rhombic-obovate, mostly acute, sharply 
and deeply serrate, the lateral ones oblique at the base ; runners very slender and long; 
scape slender, seldom over 1.5 dm. long, sparingly silky with slightly spreading or some- 
times divaricate hairs, seldom much exceeding the leaves, very rarely leafy-bracteate ; 
flowers similar to those of /. vesca ; fruit elongate-ovoid, 5-7.5 mm. in diameter and 1-1.5. 
cm. long, red; achenes superficial. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Northern United States. 
DISTRIBUTION: Woods, from Newfoundland to Manitoba, New Mexico, and Virginia. 
ILLUSTRATION: Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. f# 2922. 
10. Fragaria truncata Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia 
Univ. 2: 177. 1898. 
Rootstock short and thick; leaves rather few, thin, silky on both sides, but in age 
glabrate above; stipules oblong or ovate, brown, scarious ; petioles slender, 2-8 cm. long, 
sparingly silky with long spreading hairs; leaflets petiolulate, 1.5-4 cm. long, rounded- 
obovate, round-crenate above the middle, with the middle tooth smaller, the lateral leaflets 
very little oblique; scape slender, few-flowered, seldom exceeding 1 dm. in height, and 
rarely leafy-bracteate, sparingly silky with spreading hairs; flowers 1-2 cm. in diameter; 
hypanthium, bractlets, and sepals sparingly and finely silky ; bractlets and sepals elliptic 
or ovate, obtuse or acutish ; petals obovate, exceeding the sepals by about a third ; achenes 
in pits. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Nevada County, California. 
DISTRIBUTION : Sierra Nevada of California and mountains of Nevada and Idaho. 
11. Fragaria cuneifolia Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 448, as synonym. 
1840. — Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 174. 1898. 
Fragaria chilensis yT. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 448. 1840, 
Rootstock short but not very thick; leaves rather few, firm and somewhat coriaceous, 
but not as thick as in /. chiloensis and not reticulate, silky above when young, glabrate in 
age, densely silky and slightly tomentulose beneath; stipules lanceolate, brown, scarious ; 
petioles slender, covered with long silky spreading or reflexed hairs; leaflets cuneate to 
obovate, obtuse or truncate, toothed only at the apex with the middle tooth often smaller, 
1.5-4cm. long, subsessile or the middle one slightly petiolulate, the lateral ones only slightly 
oblique ; runners long and slender; scape slender, less than 1 dm. high, with spreading or 
reflexed, long hairs, few-flowered, without foliaceous bracts ; flowers 1.5-2 cm. in diameter ; 
bractlets and sepals linear-lanceolate; petals obovate-cuneate, a third longer than the 
sepals; fruit subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter, more villous than in the other species, 
except the next; achenes set in shallow pits. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Oregon. 
DISTRIBUTION: From British Columbia to Oregon and Idaho. 
