Fragaria ROSACEiE 263 



Species about 8, natives of temperate and alpine regions of 

 the northern hemisphere and of the mountains of South America. 



Flowers white. Fruit edible F. vesca. 



[Flowers yellow. Fruit not edible F. ijidica.] 



F. vesca L. Sjj. PL 494 (1753) ; flow^ers white ; fruit edible. 

 Griseh. FI. Br. W. Ind. 232 ; Hooh. /. in FL Bras. xiv. pt. 2, 

 66 & FL Br. Ind. a. 344. F. mexicana Schlecht. in Linnsea. 

 cciii. 265 (1839) ; HemsL BioL Centr. Amer. Bot. i. 375. F. insularis 

 Bydherg in N. Amer. FL xxii. 359 (1908). (Fig. 112.) 



Wild Strawberry, Alpine Strawberry. 



Common in the Blue Mts., J. P. 1179, Morris ! Cinchona, 5000 ft., 

 Glutei also Harris \ FL Jam. 9216; Hardware Gap, Brition, 3324! 

 Distribution of the genus. 



Floicers less than 1 cm. to 1*5 cm. in diam. Segments of cpicalyx and 

 sepals 3-5 mm. 1. in fl. Fruit '8-1 '5 cm. in diam. 



[F. indiea Andr. Bot. Bep. t. 479 (about 1807); flowers 

 yellow ; fruit not edible. Hool\ f. in FL Br. Ind. ii. 343. 

 Duchesnea indiea FocJce in EngL-Prantl Pf.zfam. Hi. pt. 3, 33 

 (1894) ; Bijdherg torn. cit. 356. 



Naturalized in Darliston Mts. Mts. of India, Afghanistan, Malay Is., 

 Japan, Corea, Formosa; naturalized in N. America, Bermuda and in most 

 tropical and subtropical regions. 



Flowers 1*5-2 cm. in diam. Segments of epicalyx often exceeding the 

 sepals, and generally toothed. Sepals 7-9 mm. 1. in fl. Fruit about 1 cm. 

 in diam.] 



[ROSA L. 



Erect shrubs, generally furnished with prickles. Leaves 

 alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets serrate. Stipules adnate to 

 the sheathing base of the leaf-stalk. Flowers solitary or in 

 corymbs, large. Receptacle urceolate. Sepals spreading, leafy, 

 often pinnatisect, deciduous or persistent. Stamens numerous, 

 in numerous whorls, inserted on the upper margin of the 

 receptacle. Carpels numerous, free, attached to the base and 

 sides of the receptacle; styles ventral, exserted ; ovule solitary, 

 pendulous. Achenes numerous, enclosed in the fleshy receptacle. 

 Seed pendulous ; cotyledons plano-couAcx ; radicle superior. 



Species, more than 100, natives of temperate and subalpine 

 regions of the northern hemisphere, but fewer in America ; the 

 southern limits of the genus are found in Abyssinia, India and 

 Central America. 



Flowers white 



Calyx bristly E. bevigata. 



Calyx tomentose, surrounded by bracts R. bractcata. 



Flowers red R. indiea. 



