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rooting, slender, with few small leaves, and commonly 

 sterile; true stems upright or reclined, short, with 

 few leaves; both stems and leaves are more or less 

 hairy. Leaves either radical or caulinal, the former 

 on long petiols, the others nearly similar when at the 

 base of the stem j but much smaller and with short 

 petioles when higher up : stipules lanceolate or oblong, 

 acute: three folioles sessile or nearly so, the middle 

 one subpetiolate, nearly equal, but the lateral ones 

 commonly oblique, and with fewer teeth inside ; shape 

 oboval or oval or nearly round, margin Broadly ser- 

 rate, surface with regular veins, lower surface pale 

 and more hairy. 



Flowers one or many on each stem, with pedicels 

 erect or drooping. Calix spreading or refle:Ked, di- 



vided into ten acute segments, the alternate somewhat 



shorter. Five white petals, obovaT^or obcorJate in- 

 serted on the calix- Many small stamina inserted 

 there also, with short filiform filaments and small 

 round anthers. Pistils many, very small, oval, with 

 a small sessile stigma, forming a convex head, being 

 inserted on a fleshy gynophore, which grows, becomes 

 pulpy and colored, involving the pistils or the small 

 seeds succeeding them, and forming together the fruit 

 or Strawberry, which is either round or oval, and 

 scrobiculate or punctate by little pitts, each corres- 



either 



or white. 



HISTORY-^Few plants are better known at first 

 sight, and yet more difficult to describe, owing to the 

 Tariable characters. Linnaeus and many botanists 



