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is made a synonym of F. americana. The two resemble each other 
much in habit, but in the former the sepals in fruit are ascending 
or merely spreading, while in the latter they are reflexed as in the 
European F. vesca. It would have been better to reduce F. 
americana toa synonym of F. vesca. Fragaria prolifica, F. pumila, 
and F. firma are given as synonyms under F. ovalis. F. firma isa 
pure synonym, for when I described it I had no idea that the 
strawberry collected by Fendler under the number 206 was the 
type of Potentilla ovalis Lehm. Neither F. prolifica nor F. 
pumila are glaucous, but bright green. Professor A. Nelson has 
placed F. ovalis, and consequently also these two species in his 
division ‘‘Leaves somewhat glaucous, pubescence of scape and 
petioles appressed.”” He placed F. platypetala in the division 
‘‘Leaves not glaucous; pubescence of the scape spreading or 
reflexed,’’ although that species usually is decidedly glaucous. 
F. glauca is made a variety of F. ovalis although its leaves are 
by no means “‘thick.’’ Watson’s type has thinner leaves than 
the type of F. pauciflora Rydb., which is regarded as distinct. If 
F. glauca had been made a variety of F. pauciflora or vice versa, 
I would not have made any criticism. 
The new species proposed in the North American Flora are 
Fragaria insularis, F. Suksdorfii, and F.yukonensis. F. insularts 
was based on material from Jamaica, supposed to be F. vesca 
introduced, but the plant is much more glaucous and less hairy 
than the northern European plant, and the sepals in fruit are 
not reflexed but ascending or spreading. The plant may be an 
introduced one in Jamaica, but the same plant has been collected 
in the Azores and Madeira. It may be the same as the F. vesca 
reported from Spain, but of this I am uncertain as I have seen no 
Spanish material. Lowe in his flora of Madeira* mentions a 
wild strawberry with the sepals enclosing the fruit. This may 
have been F. insularts. 
In our herbaria are found the following specimens of F. insularis: 
Jamaica: Bank, Hardware Gap, 1908, N. L. Britton 1778 and 
3324; Cinchona (‘Wild strawberry’), 1906, Wm. Harris 9216; 
vicinity of Cinchona, 1908, Alexandrina Taylor 4230 (in part); 
* Man. Fl. Madeira 1: 246. 1868. 
