﻿194 Heller: New Plants from 



V Fragaria bracteata. 



Plant spreading, moderately stout, pubescent ; rootstalk stout, 

 basal bracts broadly lanceolate, acuminate, tinged with red ; mature 

 plant about 15 cm. tall, the flower stalks one-third longer than the 

 leaves ; pubescence of flower stalks and petioles floccose, spreading : 

 leaflets obtuse, strongly serrate, the serratures gland tipped ; lateral 

 leaflets ovate, oblique on the inside, shorter than the terminal one ; 

 terminal leaflets broadly ovate, with cuneate base, 3.5 cm. long: 

 pedicels about 3 cm. long, usually recurved, the lower and some- 

 times the next succeeding one subtended by a reduced leaf, the 

 others by a simple bract ; calyx-lobes nearly 1 cm. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate, long acuminate ; calcyine bracts lanceolate, half the 

 length of the calyx ; petals white, slightly longer than the calyx, 

 broadly obovate : fruit ovoid, rather small, the seeds superficial. 



(PI- 339-) 



The type is no. 3615, collected in a meadow along Santa Fe 



creek, nine miles east of Santa Fe, May 29, 1897, altitude 8000 

 feet. Starved forms were also collected in damp places on the 

 ridges near Santa Fe. It is probably the same as Fendlers 207, 

 called Fragaria vesca by Gray. The pubescence on the leaflets 

 and calyx-lobes is not so plentiful as it is on the stems, and is ap- 

 pressed. 



To this well-marked species is referred no. 3279, collected by 

 Mrs. Heller and myself in the vicinity of Lake Waha, Idaho, June 

 20, 1896, distributed as F. Americana, which species it does not 

 very much resemble. 



The figure represents a plant three-fourths natural size, and a 

 seed magnified eight times. 



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A bush 2-3 meters high, growing in clumps ; bark covered 

 with gray scales ; branches ascending, spreading above, the grow- 

 ing parts reddish, pubescent : mature leaves pale green, about 

 3 cm. long, 1 -1. 5 cm. wide, elliptical or elliptical-obovate, with 

 cuneate base, which is prolonged into a short, slightly winged 

 petiole, coarsely dentate, with spreading teeth, these tipped with a 

 minute callosity, and nearly glabrous above, where the veins are 

 deeply impressed, densely white wooly beneath : panicles wooly, 

 many-flowered, terminal, drooping, about 10 cm. long, compound 

 below, simple above : flowers creamy white, 4 mm. in diameter, on 



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pedicels 4 mm. long, subtended by three short, linear or linear- 



