172 MEMOIRS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
4 Fragaria Californica Cham. & Schl. 
Fragaria California Cham. & Schl. Linnaca, 2 : 20. 1887. 
Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: 177; Hook & Arn. Bot. Beechey, 140; K. Brandegee, Zoe, 2 : 
349 ; Greene, Pittonia, 2: 262; Fl. Fran. 1:70. Man. Bay Reg. 187; Behr, Fl. Vic. 
San Fran. 248. 
Fragaria vesca var. y Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1: 448. In part. 
Fragaria vesca Benth. Pl. Hartw. 309. 
Gray, Pl. Mend. 42,1849 ; Yorr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 85 (Gm part; Calif. spec.); Bot. 
Mex. Bound. Sury. 64. 
Fragaria lucida Vilmorin ; Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. (IV.) 8: 201; Gard. Chron. 1858: 
877 ; Decaisne, Jard. Fruit. Mus. Frag. 58, pl. 
Rootstock short but not very thick, crowned by several rather thin leaves. Stipules 
ovate-lanceolate, brown ; petioles slender, 5-10 em. long, sparingly covered with long 
white silky spreading or reflexed hairs; terminal leaflet 2-5 em. long, rounded-obovate, 
obtuse, coarsely serrate, subsessile, glabrate aboye, Geely beneath ; lateral ones 
similar but very oblique at the base. Runners long and slender. Scapes generally 
several, 2-5-flowered, slender, silky with spreading or reflexed hairs, generally less than 
1 dm. high and seldom leafy-bracteate. Flowers 1-1.5 em. in diameter. Hypanthium 
silky ; bractlets generally somewhat shorter than the sepals, both silky, lanceolate and 
acuminate or acute; petals obovate, very little exceeding the sepals. Fruit hemispheric, 
1—-1.5 em. in diameter ; achenes in shallow pits. 
It is nearest related to #. vesca and I. Mexicana. From the former it differs by the 
more rounded leaves and the pubescence which is much longer and thicker especially on 
the under surface of the leaves, and from the latter by the larger and broader leaflets, 
the more numerous leaves and scapes. It is the most common straw berry in California, 
extending eastward into New Mexico. 
California: J. M. Bigelow, Whipple Exp., 1853-4; C. C. Parry (Mex. Bound. Surv.), 
1850; J. Torrey, No. 124, 1865; 5. B. Parish, No. 8368, 1892; No. 3404, 1894; W. L. 
Jepson, 1891; H. W. Henshaw, No. 182, 1893; C. R. Orcutt, 1889; 8S. B. & W. F. Parish, 
No, 404, 1882 : Geo. Hansen, No. 8302, 1895, and 298, 1893; *Hartweg, No. 8785; Ed. 
Palmer, No. 82, 1875; B. F. Seeds, No. 2888; Mrs. R. M. Austin, No. 840, 1893; Alice 
Eastwood, 1893 ; 1895; Blankinship ; W. Price; H. Davis, 1887. 
New Mexico: A. Fendler, No. 207, 1847; Dr. Edwards, 1860; E.-O. Wooton, 1895 
(White Mts.). 
Arizona: J. W. Toumey. 
Lower California: TV. 8. Brandegee, 1898. 
