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2.Fe americana (Porter) Britt. ———»Rootstock scaly, the stolons slender, 
as much as 50-60 cm. long, thinly hirsute; leaves several, sane persisting 
two years, petioles thinly silky-hirsute, jaeniOOPRUliiOn.s 5-10 cm. 
long, in very moist rich soil sometimes much longer, leaflets yellowishe 
green, thinly silky hirsute on the upper surface, rugose from the lightl 
impressed veins, hirsute beneath and paler, but both surfaces a 
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lower leaflets obliquely wedge-shaped and entire #@ the lower third, the upper | 
sometimes wedge-shaped in the lower half, all rhomboidal » varying in length 
‘fran 2.5-7 cme but the breadth always more than half the length, the margins 
coarsely toothed, the teeth ovate, mucronate; flowers several on hirsute 
slender peduncles about equal to the leaves, usually bearing a unifoliate 
bract at the base of the cluster and smaller lanceolate bractlets above; calyx _ 
lobes 4-6 mm. long, oblong-lanceolate or ovate, Sometimes toothed, appressed | 
silky, the appendages usually similar but seller, usually half as long, rarely 
longer; petais white,somewhat crinkled, nearly orbicular, 6-7 mm. in diameter, | 
commonly not rotate but forming a shallowly cup=shaped flower; stamens about | 
20 in two rows, anthers «7 mm. long$ styles .8 m. long; fruit oval, 10-15 mm e 
long, generally sparingly pilose, the calyx-lobeg Spreading; achenes 1 mm. 
long. (F. bracteata Heller; F. Helleri Holz.). 
Common throughout our range at lower elevations in open gravelly 
places in the forest and in burns or on Slopes of low hills toward the grass- 
land or in meadows. 
