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is made a synonym of F. americana. The two resemble each other 

 much in habit, but in the former the sepals in fruit are ascending 

 or merely spreading, while in the latter they are reflexed as in the 

 European F. vesca. It would have been better to reduce F. 

 americana to a synonym of F. vesca. Fragaria prolifica, F. pumila, 

 and F. fir ma are given as synonyms under F. oralis. F. firma is a 

 pure synonym, for when I described it I had no idea that the 

 strawberry collected by Fendler under the number 206 was the 

 type of Potentilla oralis Lehm. Neither F. prolifica nor F. 

 pumila are glaucous, but bright green. Professor A. Nelson has 

 placed F. oralis, and consequently also these two species in his 

 division "Leaves somewhat glaucous, pubescence of scape and 

 petioles appressed." He placed F. platypetala in the division 

 "Leaves not glaucous; pubescence of the scape spreading or 

 reflexed," although that species usually is decidedly glaucous. 

 F. glauca is made a variety of F. oralis although its leaves are 

 by no means "thick." Watson's type has thinner leaves than 

 the type of F. paucifiora Rydb., which is regarded as distinct. If 

 F. glauca had been made a variety of F. paucifiora or vice versa, 

 I would not have made any criticism. 



The new species proposed in the North American Flora are 

 Fragaria insularis, F. Suksdorfii, and F. yukonensis. F. insularis 

 was based on material from Jamaica, supposed to be F. resca 

 introduced, but the plant is much more glaucous and less hairy 

 than the northern European plant, and the sepals in fruit are 

 not reflexed but ascending or spreading. The plant may be an 

 introduced one in Jamaica, but the same plant has been collected 

 in the Azores and Madeira. It may be the same as the F. resca 

 reported from Spain, but of this I am uncertain as I have seen no 

 Spanish material. Lowe in his flora of Madeira* mentions a 

 wild strawberry with the sepals enclosing the fruit. This may 

 have been F. insularis. 



In our herbaria are found the following specimens of F. insularis: 



Jamaica: Bank, Hardware Gap, 1908, iV. L. Britton 1778 and 



3324; Cinchona ("Wild strawberry"), 1906, Wm. Harris 9216; 



vicinity of Cinchona, 1908, Alexandrina Taylor 4230 (in part); 



*Man. Fl. Madeira i: 246. 1868. 



