WILD STRAWBERRY 37 
in shady lanes where broad banks are overhung by trees or herbage, 
where moisture is uniform but not too abundant. It is seen at its 
best, however, and in greatest profusion, in those natural (or may be 
artificial) glades in woods where, in additional to continual moisture, 
light and sunshine are regularly diffused. 
The wild plant is a much smaller form of the garden type, but 
closely resembling it in habit. It is freely stoloniferous, and the radical 
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WILD STRAWBERRY (Fragaria vesca, L.) 
leaves are trifoliate, with serrate margins, sessile. The stolons are a 
foot or more long. 
The flowering stems or scapes are clothed with down which is 
made up of spreading hairs, and are borne in axils of the radical 
leaves. The hairs on the pedicels are closely appressed. The calyx 
is reflexed in fruit. The receptacle is large and convex, and here is 
the source of the so-called berry. It is pulpy or succulent, bearing 
the numerous achenes, which are hard, and usually regarded as the 
seeds. 
The Wild Strawberry is rarely more than 8 in. in height. The 
flowers are in bloom in April and May. The Wild Strawberry is 
perennial, and besides the stolons which spread it, it is propagated 
by seeds. 
