202 Class XII. Order V. 



206. DALIBARDA. 



DALIBARDA REPENS. Pursh. White Dalibarda, 



Villous ; shoots creeping; leaves simple, cordate, 

 crenate ; peduncles one flowered. 



Syn. DALIBARDA VIOLAEOIDES. MX. 

 RUBUS DALIBARDA. Willd. 



A creeping plant, with white flowers. Leaves on long pe- 

 tioles, heart shaped, obtuse, crenate, covered with thin hairs. 

 Peduncles as long as the petioles, terminating in a single flower. 

 Calyx segments ovate, ciliate, somewhat toothed. Petals oval, 

 Stamens capillary ; styles few. Among the decayed leaves in 

 woods. Princeton. June. 



DALIBARDA FRAGARIOIDES. MX. Yellow Dalibarda, 



Leaves ternate, leafets wedge shaped, cut serrate, 

 ciliate ; scapes many flowered : tube of the calyx co- 

 nical. 



Considerably larger than the foregoing, with some resemblance 

 to the strawberry. Leaves in threes, lobed and toothed, nearly 

 smooth, ciliate. Scapes slender, furnished with a few simple or 

 ternate, lanceolate bractes. Panicle few flowered ; pedicels 

 elongated, slightly hairy. Germs acute at base ; calyx acute ; 

 petals oblong, yellow. Filaments numerous, persistent after the 

 anthers have fallen. Woods, Hanover, New Hampshire. June. 



207. FRAG ARIA. 



FRAGARIA VIRGINIANA. Ehr. Wild Strawberry. 



Calyx of the fruit spreading ; hairs of the petioles 

 erect, of the peduncles appressed ; leaves smooth 

 above. Willd. 



The common wild strawberry is a very delicious fruit, and 

 Avhen cultivated is inferior to few imported species. The ber- 

 ries ripen early, are of a light scarlet colour, exquisitely flavour- 

 ed, but more soft and perishable than the other kinds. The her- 

 bage is more smooth and even, than in other species, the pedun- 



