184 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



from the root, on long, hairy petioles, with 3 serrate leaflets. 

 Ti7}ie, spring. 



Calyx, 5-cleft, with a narrow bract between each 2 divi^ons. 

 Petals, 5, roundish. 



The fruit of the strawberry is an enlarged and juicy receptacle, 

 with the achenes buried in depressions on the outside. 



F. Indica is a yellow-flowered strawberry. It has escaped 

 from cultivation, and has a tasteless fruit ; found southward. 



The wild strawberry is a pleasant find in one's spring walks. 

 The blossoms are delicate, the leaves pretty. The scarlet, fragrant 

 fruit, even if small, peering from among grass and leaves, has an 

 aroma, a delicious wild flavor that the large, juicy, cultivated 

 berry cannot afford. 



Sometimes in the New York groceries tiny cornucopias made 

 of leaves and filled with New Jersey hulled wild strawberries are 

 offered for sale, and find eager buyers at large prices. 



" I caught the fragrance which the sundry flowers, 

 Fed by the stream with soft perpetual showers, 

 Plenteously yielded to the vagrant breeze. 

 There bloomed the strawberry of the wilderness ; 

 The trembling eyebright showed her sapphire blue; 

 The thyme her purple, like the blush of even; 

 All kinds alike seemed favorites»of heaven." 



Wordsworth. 



ig. Norway Cinquefoil. Five-finger 



Potenillla Norvegica. — Family, Kost. G?/?/, yellow. Leaves, 

 of 3 leaflets, sessile, or with petioles. Time, summer. 



Ca/yx, 5-cleft, and with narrow bracts in the recesses. Pet- 

 als, 5, small. The calyx lobes project beyond the petals. 



A brandling, hairy species, growing from 6 inches to 2 feet 

 high. Stems thick. Flowers crowded and mixed with leaves at 

 the end of the stem. The leaves are coarsely serrate. The yel- 



