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with coarser, more falcate teeth and less visible reticulate venation. 

 Varieties of this kind are Abington, Beder Wood, Champion, Chesapeake, 

 Delicious, Dunlap, Easypicker, Eaton, Haverland, and Klondike. 



As a rule, however, the characters of F. virginiana seem to be more 

 dominant ; this is also evident in the long petioles and scapes and the more 

 cymose, many-flowered inflorescences, the brighter color, and the sunken 

 seeds of the fruits. 



L. H. Bailey puts all of these hybrids under F. chiloensis ananassa 

 Hort., in his Stand. Cyc. Hort. 3:1272. 1915. Duchesne created for them 

 and for F. virginiana the group name Quoimio which, however, never came 

 into general use. A form with variegated leaves has been recorded and also 

 one with persistent petals. Hybrids with F. vesca and with F. moschata 

 occur and have been mentioned imder these species. 



Fragaria califomica. Cham. &■ Schlecht. Linnaea 2:20. 1827; Rydberg N. Am. FL 

 22:358. 1908. 



F. sericea. Douglas in Hooker Fl. Bor. Am. 1:185. .1832. 



F. lucida. E. de Vilmorin ex Gay Ann. Sci. Nat. 4th Ser. 8:201. 1857; E. de Vil- 

 morin in Decaisne Jard. Fruit. 51, PI. 1862-75. 



F. chiloensis auct. 



Rootstock stout, stipules large and broad, ovoid, pointed, brown, the lower ones 

 more hairy; runners stout and long, with adpressed hairs. Petioles 3-9 cm long, stout, 

 not channeled above, densely beset with soft, spreading, white hairs. Leaflets rather small, 

 somewhat thick or sometimes nearly coriaceous, glabrous and dark shining green above 

 with deeply impressed venation, whitish tomentose and with long silky hairs, especially 

 along the elevated veins underneath, 2-5 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide, obtuse or truncate 

 with the terminal tooth very small; the lateral leaflets on very short stalks, very obliquely 

 cuneate at the base, rhomboid-ovate, the outer side larger almost aimculate with 5-8 teeth, 

 the inner side with about 2-3 teeth or more; the terminal leaflet longer stalked, obovate- 

 cuneate or almost obcordate, crenate only at the top with 2-5 teeth on each side; the teeth 

 broadly roundish, abruptly pointed, overtopped by a brush of silky hairs. Scapes mostly 

 shorter than the petioles, with spreading hairs; bracts sometimes foliaceous; pedicels 2-5 

 cm long, with spreading or adpressed or reflexed hairs. Flowers several, polygamo-dioe- 

 cious, male flowers larger, over 3 cm across, the female ones much smaller, soon losing their 

 petals. Calyx with adpressed white silky hairs, outer calyx-lobes oblanceolate, with a 

 midrib and reticulate veins, inner ones broader and longer, ovate-deltoid, acute. Petals 

 roundish obovate, with a short claw. Receptacle hairy. Fruit small, roundish, softly 

 hairy, dull red, sweet, achenes brown in pits; calyx spreading, peduncle recurved or 

 ■^ -shaped, bearing the fruit upright. 



Pacific Coast of North America; from Alaska, British Columbia, 

 Washington, Oregon to middle California, mostly on sand dunes near the 

 coast. " Dense and extensive colonies common near the coast. An effective 



