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flowers small ; fruit (" berry ") ovoid, of a light pink color, smooth 

 and shining, not pitted; ''seeds" prominent, and barely attached. — 

 North America, from the Appalachian mountains to Michigan, Vir- 

 ginia, and probably farther west and south. 



4. Fragaria calif ornica Cham. & Schlecht., in Linnsea, II, 20 

 (1827). — Low, somewhat villose, with spreading hairs; leaves thin, 

 the leaflets cuneate-obovate, and rounded, sparingly villose on the 

 upper side, somewhat appressed-hairy below ; flower peduncles usu- 

 ally slender ; flowers small, half an inch broad, calyx-lobes often 

 toothed or cleft; fruit ("berry") small, with superficial "seeds." — 

 Native of the western region, from New Mexico to Mt. Diablo and 

 Oakland, California. 



5. FragaiHa canadensis Michx., Fl. Bar. Am., I, 299 (1803). — Plant 

 slender; leaflets oblong (or middle one obovate) and cuneate at base, 

 all obtuse, rather sparingly and not deaply toothed, averaging an inch 

 and a quarter long by a little more than half an inch wide, quite 

 smooth on the upper surface when young, pale and more or less pu- 

 bescent beneath ; flowers few, about half an inch or a little more in 

 diameter, on slender pedicels ; hairs on the flower-stalk appressed. — 

 A native of Canada and Arctic America, occurring also in the Black 

 Hills of South Dakota. 



6. Ft^agaria daltoniana J. Gay, in Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. IV., vol. 8, 

 204 (1857). — A low })lant with small leaves; leaflets elliptical, den- 

 tate, almost smooth; fruit three-fourths of an inch long, erect, conical, 

 minutely hairy between the small, superficial "seeds." — Native of 

 Sikkim, Asia. 



7. Fragaria nilgerrensis^chXecht. ex J. Gay, in Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 

 IV, vol. 8, 206 (1857). — A robust, large-leaved, very villose plant; 

 leaflets elliptical, sessile; "berry" hairy, with superficial "seeds." — 

 Native of the East Indies. 



8. Fragaria chiloensis Dachesne, Hist. Nat. Frais., 165 (1766). — 

 Chilian Strawberry. — Plant usually low, an! densely villose, with 

 silky hairs, which are spreading upon the petioles and flower-stalks, 

 and appressed on the under side of the leaves; flower-stalks and peti- 

 oles rather stout; leaflets thick, perfectly smooth above, cuneate- 

 obovate, rounded at the apex; flowers large (often one inch broad); 

 fruit ("berry") with small pits on the surface in which the " seeds" 

 are sunken. — Native of Western, North, and S:)uth America. 



