N. ORD—ROSACE 55 
Tribe.—DRYADEA. ; 
GENUS.—F RAGARIA,* TOURN. 
SEX, SYST.—ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
FRAGARIA. 
WILD STRAWBERRY. . 
SYN.—FRAGARIA VESCA, LINN. 
COM. NAMES.—WILD, FIELD, OR WOOD STRAWBERRY; (FR.) LE FRAI- 
SIER; (GER.) ERDBEERE. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH RIPE FRUIT OF FRAGARIA VESCA, LINN. 
Description.— Root perennial, horizontal, knotty; séo/ons creeping along the 
ground and rooting at the end, sending therefrom young plants, following in due 
time the same process; stem none. Leaves mostly radical, ternately compound, 
hairy; sé#iéules adherent to the base of the petioles of the radical leaves ; /ea/lets 
sessile or nearly so, cuneate-obovate, coarsely serrate, and so strongly veined as 
to appear plicate ; edioles much longer than the leaves. /nflorescence loose leafy 
cymes, upon long naked scapes; leaves of the cymes small; stzpules lanceolate- 
oblong, acute; pedicels erect or drooping; flowers white. Calyx concave at the 
base and furnished with 5 intermediate bracteoles alternate with its lobes; the 
whole remaining spread or reflexed in fruit; Jobes acute. Petals 5, obtuse, some- 
what crenate edged. Stamens small, indefinite. Szy/es deeply lateral. /7uz¢ con- 
sisting of the greatly enlarged and now pulpy and scarlet globular receptacle ; 
achenia dry, scattered upon the surface of the fruit, not sunk in pits. 
History and Habitat.—The Wild Strawberry grows on dry and rocky banks, 
where it is common throughout the North Temperate Zone in Europe, Asia, and 
America. With us it is thoroughly indigenous North, flowering in May and June 
and fruiting in July and August. This species, together with Pak Verginica—which 
is more common, grows in richer soil, and has the achenia sunk in pits upon the 
surface of the receptacle—form our delicious wild strawberries. The other North 
American species of Fragaria are F. Virginica var. Illinensis, Gray, supposed to 
be the original of the “Boston Pine ” and “ Hovey’s Seedling ;” and var. glauca, 
Watson; F. Ca&ifornica, C.&S.; F.. Chilensis, Duch.; and var. Scoulert, Hook ; 
and F. Jndica, Andr., an adventive form. The / Virginica, Ehr., is supposed to 
* From the Latin /ragrans, odorous, on account of the aroma of the fruit. 
+ More properly applicable to the ¥. Virginica. 
