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Rubus pedatus Smith ; Willd. Sp. PI. II. p. 1088 ; Pers. Syn. PI. 

 11. ]\ 52 ; Pnrsh Fl. Amer. Sept. I. p. 349 ; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. I. p. 

 181, tab. LXI ; Torr. et Gray, Fl. North Amer. I. p. 452 ; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. II. p. 71 ; Walp. Repert. II. p. 23 ; 0. Kiintze Methodik pp, 130, 

 137-139, 156 ; Focke in Engl, et Praiitl, Die Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. III. 3, 

 p. 29. 



Perennial unarmed herb. Stem filiform, long creeping, nearly glabrous, 

 rarely divided, rooting at nodes. Branches short, erect, 1-3-leaved, thinly 

 pilose. Leaves alternate, laxly placed, erect, long-petioled, trisected, or 

 pedately quinate by the division of the both lateral leaflets, firmly mem- 

 branaceous, very sparingly pilose, l§-4^ cm. across ; leaflets shortly pedicellate, 

 subrhombeo-elliptical, cuneate towards the base in the mid one, inciso- 

 serrate with mucronate ovate teeth ; petiole filiform, longer than the blade, 

 thinly pilose ; stipules free, 2 to the base of petioles, ovate to orbicular, 

 ciliated, membranaceous, often concave, persistent. Peduncle filiform, 

 uniflorous, erect from the top of branches, solitary, about equal to leaves in 

 height, thinly pilose and sometimes sparingly intermixed with glandular hairs, 

 mostly 2-bracteate at the middle ; bracts opposite, ovate, membranaceous. 

 Calyx deeply 5-parted ; lobes at length reflexed, narrowly oblong to broadly 

 lanceolate, plane, acute or acuminate, mucronate, entire, ciliated, thin, 

 very sparingly pilose and sometimes moreover with loose glandular hairs, 

 green, nervate longitudinally. Petals 5, about the length of the calyx- 

 lobe, narrowly obovate-oblong, obtuse, sessile, white. Stamens numerous, 

 shorter than the calyx-lobe ; filament filiform, glabrous ; anther minute, 

 broadly rounded. Ovaries 3-4, obovate-oblong, glabrous ; style terminal, 

 filiform, glabrous, 4-times as long as the ovary ; stigma terminal, punctate. 

 Drupels 3-4, accompanied by the persistent calyx, ovate-elliptical, distinct 

 and pulpy in fruit, red in mature, with a pei'sistent style ; stone smooth, 

 coriaceous. 



Daliharda pedcda Stephan ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. II. p. 526. 



Comaropsis pedato, Ser. in DC, Prodr. II. p. 555. 



Noni. Jap. Kogane-icJdgo. 



Hah. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Komagadake {R. Yatahe ! herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 2, 1880) ; Prov. Shimotsuke : Mt. Nyoho in 

 Nikko {H. Taheda ! Aug. 18, 1901). 



This species has not until now been found in the Flora of Japan, 

 being known only in the westiern territory of North-America. In general 

 habit, it is as Duchesnea indica Focke (Fragaria indica Andr.). 



