Part 4, 1908] ROSACEAE 361 
12. Fragaria Suksdorfii Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Rootstock very thick and woody; leaves moderately thick, green and glabrate above, 
at first densely silky beneath, in age less densely so and decidedly glaucous ; petioles 3-7 
cm. long, silky with spreading hairs; leaflets short-petiolulate, elliptic-oblanceolate, 3-5 cm. 
long, 1-2 cm. wide, crenate above the middle with rounded-ovate teeth; scape 1-1.5 dm. 
high, furnished, as well as the pedicels, with spreading silky hairs ; flowers about 1.5 cm. in 
diameter ; hypanthium and calyx rather densely silky ; bractlets lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, 
about equaling the ovate short-acuminate sepals; petals broadly oval, about 8 mm. long; 
fruit subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter, villous; achenes in very shallow pits. 
Type collected on dry grounds in open woods, Falcon Valley, Washington, in 1883, Suksdor, 
486 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). ‘ ‘ a 
DISTRIBUTION : Washington and Oregon. 
13. Fragaria platypetala Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia 
Univ. 2: 177. 1898. 
Fragaria virginiana illinoensis S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 177. 1876. 
Fragaria californica Howell, Fl. NW, Am. 1: 174, in part. 1898. 
Fragaria latuscula Greene, Ottawa Nat. 18: 216. 1905. 
Rootstock very thick and woody, generally bearing several flowering stems; leaves 
moderately thick, glabrous and glaucous above and appressed-silky beneath; petioles 
2-20 cm. long, silky-villous with long spreading or reflexed hairs, moderately stout or 
rather slender; leaflets broadly cuneate or obovate, 2-8 cm. long, coarsely serrate or cre- 
nate above the middle, nearly always evidently petiolulate, the lateral ones only a little 
oblique; runners comparatively stout, long; scape comparatively stout, but much less so 
than in F. virginiana, generally about 1 dm., seldom 2 cm., high, sometimes only a few 
centimeters, rarely exceeding the leaves, rather many-flowered, often leafy-bracteate, silky- 
villous with long spreading or reflexed hairs; flowers large, 1.5-2.5 cm. in diameter ; sepals 
and bractlets lanceolate ; petals almost orbicular, usually twice as long as the sepals; fruit 
hemispheric, 1-1.5 cm. in diameter; achenes set in rather shallow pits. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Not indicated in the original description, but the type in the herbarium of 
Columbia University was collected at Spout, British Columbia, in 1890, John Macoun. 
DISTRIBUTION : From Alaska to California, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. 
14. Fragaria sibbaldifolia Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia 
Univ. 2: 176. 1898. 
Fragaria vesca Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 95, 1893. Not #. vesca I. 1753. 
Rootstock short and thick, nearly erect; leaves thin, glabrate above, silky beneath ; 
stipules ovate, scarious; petioles 2-5 cm. long, slightly silky with spreading hairs ; termi- 
nal leaflet broadly obovate, truncate, coarsely 3-7-toothed at the apex, 1-2 cm. long; 
lateral ones somewhat smaller, oblique at the base; runners long and slender, rather 
numerous; scape short, few-flowered, with rather scanty spreading silky hairs; sepals and 
bractlets broadly lanceolate, acute, otherwise resembling those of F. truncata ; fruit unknown. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Mt. Whitney, along the branches of Kern River, California. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
15. Fragaria australis Rydberg. 
Fragaria virginiana australis Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2: 180. 1898. 
Perennial, with a short but not thick rootstock; leaves moderately thick, green on both 
sides but slightly paler beneath; petioles 2-6 cm. long, silky with spreading hairs ; leaflets 
elliptic-oblanceolate to obovate, 1-4 cm. long, subsessile, with small broadly ovate teeth, 
obtuse; scape 2-6 cm. high, sitky with ascending or slightly spreading hairs; pedicels 
appressed-hairy ; bractlets linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm. long, somewhat shorter than the 
lanceolate sepals ; petals oval, 5-8 mm. long; fruit unknown. es 
Lity: Not given in the original description, but the type in the Columbia University 
Pe aca collected A: the falls of the Yadkin River, Stanley County, North Carolina, in 1896, 
ohn K. Small. . . 
A DISTRIBUTION : Virginia and North Carolina. 
