WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK I35 



Common Agrimony 



Agrinwtiia striata A'lichaux 

 {Agrimoiiia brittoniana Bicknell) 



Plate 98b 



Stem rather stout and usually with some straight, nearly erect branches, 

 2 to 6 feet tall from a perennial fibrous root, pubescent with short, spread- 

 ing, brownish hairs, somewhat appressed above. Leaves numerous, alternate, 

 compound with seven to nine, or rarely eleven, oblique leaflets, tetragonal- 

 elliptic to rhomboid-lanceolate, pointed and sharply toothed, rather thick 

 and somewhat rough, dull green above, softly pubescent beneath, usually 

 several pairs of small, interposed leaflets; stipules lanceolate, pointed and 

 cut-toothed. Flowers mmierous in long, erect or ascending racemes; each 

 flower about one-fourth of an inch wide; petals five, bright yellow; calyx 

 tube in fruit long-turbinate, about one-fourth of an inch long, deeply grooved, 

 unmargined; the bristles numerous, often purplish, short, crowded, inflexed 

 and connivent over the sepals. 



Thickets, open woods and roadsides, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, 



south to West Virginia, Nebraska and Mexico. Flowering from June 



to September. 



Barren or Dry Strawberry 



Waldsteinia fragarioides (Michaux) Trattinnick 



Plate g9 



A perennial, herbaceous plant resembling a strawberry, with creeping, 

 rather stout rootstock. Leaves tufted, mainly basal, long petioled, glabrous 

 or somewhat pubescent, three-foliate; leaflets obovate, obtuse at the apex, 

 tapering at the base with crenate or sometimes incised margins, i to 2 

 inches long. Flowering scapes slender, erect, bracted, corymbosely three 

 to eight-flowered; pedicels slender, often drooping ; flowers yellow, one-half 

 to two-thirds of an inch broad; petals five, obovate and longer than the 

 five ovate-lanceolate, acute calyx lobes; stamens eight, inserted on the 

 throat of the calyx; achenes of the fruit four to six, finely pubescent. 



Rocky woods, shaded hillsides and banks. New Brunswick to Ontario, 

 Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana and Oregon. Flowering in May and June. 



