54 HO IV TO ENOW WILD FRUITS 



feast ? The wild flavor of the berries is beyond 

 the power of cultivation to produce or retain. 



A strawberry bearing white fruits grows in 

 the Alps. 



F. Virginiana grows from New Brunswick 

 southward and as far west as South Dakota. 



Frag aria Canadensis or Northern Wild Straw- 

 berry, described as a separate species by Britton 

 and Brown, is especially a northern plant. The 

 leaflets are oblong or narrowly obovate, and have 

 comparatively few teeth. The fruit is oblong or 

 somewhat rounded at the summit. The achenes 

 are sunken in pits. 



EUROPEAN WOOD STRAWBERRY 

 Fragaria vesca Rose Family 



Fruit. — The achenes are not sunken in pits 

 but are borne on the nearly smooth surface of 

 the conical or hemispherical fruit. The calyx 

 lobes are sometimes spreading, sometimes re- 

 flexed. The fruit cluster rises above the leaves. 



Leaves. — The thin, light green, three-parted 

 leaves grow on stems that are shorter than the 

 flower stems. 



