No. 38. FRAGAHXA. 189 



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FRAGARIA VESCA 



English Name— COMMON STRAWBERRY. 

 French Name — Fraisier Sauvage. 

 German Name — Gemeine Erdbeerb. 

 Officinal Name — Fragaria baccae. 

 Vulgar Names — American Strawberry, Wild 



Stravvberrj^. 



Synonyms — F. vlrginiana and F. canadensis, 



Wildenow, Persoon, Pursh, &c. 



Authorities Lin. Clayton, Colden, Cutler, 



Schoepf, Michaux, Pursh, Torrey, Eaton, many bo- 

 tanical works and some Materia Med. Sic. 



ing 



Genus Fragaria— Calix ten cleft, subequal, bear- 

 the corolla and stamina. Petals, five on the base 



of the calix. Many stamina, unequal, filaments fili- 

 form, anthers round. Larg.e central gynophore, pulpy, 

 deciduous, bearing many Pistils immersed in it, and 

 forming together a pulpy many seeded berry.— Leaves 

 trifoliate, serrate, stipulate. 



Species F. Vesca— Stoloniferous and hairy ; radi- 

 cal leaves as long as the stems, stem leaves few, $ub- 

 sessile : foliolcs subsessile, oboval, lateral ones oblique. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, creeping, knot- 

 ty, bunches of fibres at the knots. Stems of two 

 kinds, "some procumbent, stoloniferous, creeping, 



