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The Ottawa Naturalist. 



March 



obtusish thin glabrous 3-lobed foliage, and equally peculiar pedi- 

 cels and calyx. 



Fragaria latiuscula. Low and not slender, the parts rather 

 firm, peduncles 3 to 6 inches high, the leaves nearly as long, both 

 peduncles and petioles villous with spreading hairs : leaflets pale, 

 glaucescent and almost glabrous above, glaucous and pilose- 

 pubescent beneath : leaflets in the largest leaves not very dis- 

 similar, all on uncommonly long petiolules, very broadly cuneate- 

 obovate, i to i^ inches long and nearly as broad, those of 

 smaller earlier leaves even broader than long, all coarsely, deeply 

 and evenly crenate : calyx-j-egments quadrate-oblong, very acute, 

 the elliptic bracteoles quite as long : corolla 2^ inch broad, the 

 petals mostly broader than long and overlapping : achenes large, 

 superficial. 



Chilliwack Valley, also by Mr. Macoun, 1891; 34,337, 34,338 

 and 31-. 339 of the Geological Survey collection. 



Fragaria retrorsa. Slender, soft and delicate woodland 

 plant 6 or 8 inches high ; petioles, peduncles and pedicels 

 retrorsely long-villous : leaflets light-green above and with few 

 scattered hairs, underneath pale and glaucescent as well as more 

 hairy, especially along the fine whitish veins, the middle one rather 

 acutely obovate-rhomboidal, i or 2 inches long, the laterals simi- 

 lar but oblique, the teeth of all minutely cuspidate-apiculate : 

 calyx-segments almost caudately acuminate : corolla small for 

 plant, about ^ inch wide; petals round-obovate, not overlapping, 

 dull white, turning red in drying : fruits large, subglobose : 

 achenes superficial. 



Collected in the Chilliwack Valley 1901 by 'Mr. J. M. Macoun 

 and distributed under Geol. Surv. No. 34,336. No. 34,335 may 

 be specifically the same, but in this the pubescence is scanty and 

 scarcely retrorse ; but if habit, foliage and flowers i fl'er here the 

 essential marks of a species, the two numbers must bear the same 

 specific name. 



