448 ROSACEA. Fragaria. 



monly shorter than the (rather coriaceous) leaves ; the direction of the pubes- 

 cence variable. — Ehrh. beitr. 7. p. 24 ; IVilld. ! spec. 2. p.1091 ,• Pursh, fl. 



1. p. 357 ; Torr. ! fl. I. p. 500 ; Scringe ! in DC. prodr. 2. p. 570 ,• Hook. ! 

 fl. Bar.- Am. 1. p. 184 ; Darlingt. fl. Ccst. p. 304. F. Canadensis, Michx. ! 

 fl. 1. 2>- 299 ; Richards. ! appx. FranM. journ. ed. 2.^?. 20. F. glabra &c., 

 Duhain. arh. I. p. 181, I. 5. F. vesca, var. Virginiana, Ait. Kew. {ed. 1.) 



2. p. 211. 



Fields and meadows throughout the United States (in the South common 

 only in the woody and somewhat elevated districts) and Canada ! extending 

 to Newfoundland ! and to Arctic America, lat. 64°, Richardson! April- 

 May. — The deeply pitted fruit affords the only character for this species that 

 can be wholly relied upon. The pubescence is sometimes appressed or as- 

 cending on both the petioles and the peduncles, but as often spreading on one 

 or both: and neither is the length of the peduncles, or the firm texture of the 

 leaves very constant. F. elatior was doubtless erroneously given by the 

 older authors as an American species. F. Virginiana and F. Canadensis 

 were both manifestly founded upon the species here described. — Wild 

 Strawberry. 



2. F. vesca (Linn.) : fruit conical or hemispherical, the achenia superfi- 

 cial ; calyx much spreading or reflexed in fruit ; peduncles commonly longer 

 than the leaves ; the direction of the pubescence variable. — Linn. ! spec. 

 (excl. var.) ; Engl. hot. t. 1524 ; DC. ! I. c. ; Hook. I. c. 



p. fruit elongated-conic, acute. 



y. " leaves and scapes usually more silky." Nutt. ! m,ss. 



Northern States ! Subarctic America and the N. W. Coast ! y. Oregon, 

 Douglas ! Nuttall ! May. — This species is certainly native in the northern 

 portions of the United States ; the variety with narrow and elongated fruit is 

 common in the northern portions of New York and the New England States. 

 The species, though generally confounded with the preceding, is readily dis- 

 tinguished by the carpels not being imbedded in the receptacle. It is also 

 more stoloniferous. 



3. F. Chilensis (Ehrh.) : flowers (large) spreading ; leaflets coriaceous, 

 broadly obovate, very obtuse, coarsely serrate, rugose, very silky-villous be- 

 neath ; peduncles and calyx silky. Hook. — Ehrh. I. c. ; Willd. ! I. c. ; Se- 

 ringe, in DC. prodr. 2. p. 571 ,- Cham. <^- Schlecht. ! in Linncea, 2. p. 20 ; 

 Hook. .' I. c, Sf in bot. Beechey, p. 140. F. sericea, Dougl. mss. ex Hook. 

 F. Chiloensis &c. Dill. Elth. t. 120. (cult.) F. vesca, var. Chiloensis, 

 Linn. 



0. " peduncles longer than tlie leaves, many times dichotomous ,with a pe- 

 dicel in the axils." Hook. I. c. 



y. peduncles 1 -few-flowered, often shorter than the leaves ; leaflets smaller 

 and less silky, more cuneiform. — F. Chilensis, a. (in part). Hook. ! I. c. F. 

 Californica, Cham. Sf Schlecht. I. c. F. cuneifolia, Nutt. ! mss. 



Western Coast from Puget Sound ! to California ! — Mr. Nuttall's speci- 

 mens have smaller flowers and more acuminate sepals ; but corresponding 

 ones from Dr. Scouler have very large and mostly solitary flowers. The 

 fruit, according to Mr. NiUtall, "is smaller than in F. Virginiana, and al- 

 though palatable, the pulp is so covered with villous hairs as to render it as 

 uncomfortable to the palate as a woolly peach." 



Subtribe 6. Dalibarde^. — Calyx flattish, 5-parted, mostly imbricate in 

 aestivation. Stamens numerous. Carpels numerous, or rarely few, drupa- 

 ceous, juicy, crowded on the conical receptacle : ovules 2, collateral : styles 

 terminal or nearly so. Seed suspended. Radicle superior. — Herbaceous or 

 mostly somewhat shrubby often prickly plants. 



