MEMOIRS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | 
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Fragaria Californica Franciscana. 
Low, from a very thick rootstock ; leaves thicker, smaller, and strongly veined. 
This is very unlike the typical & Californica in general habit, but as I can not find 
any technical characters by which to separate it from the species, and as I do not know 
it from field observations, | haye thought it best not to describe it as a distinct species. 
California: (Marin Co.) Alice Eastwood, 1896; (Mt. Tamalpais) 'T. 5. Brandegee, 
1890; both in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. 
5. Fragaria Mexicana Schlecht. 
Fragaria Mexicana Schlecht. Linnaea, 13: 265. 1839. 
Hemsley, Biol. Cent. Am. 1: 375; Dietr. Syn. Pl. 3: 177; Walp. Rep. 2: 25. 
Fragaria vesca Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, 282. Not L. 
Rootstock very short, crowned by a few leaves and a solitary scape. Leaves rather thin, soon 
glabrate above, silky beneath ; petioles about 5 dm. long, slender, silky with spreading or reflexed 
hairs; leaflets oblong-obovate or cuneate, coarsely serrate, 2-3 em. long, the lateral ones oblique at the 
base, but less so than in F. Californica. Runners long and slender. Scape generally about 5 em. high, 
seldom over 10 em. high, with spreading silky hairs, slender and 1—4-flowered. Flowers seldom over 
1 em. in diameter. Sepals and bractlets lanceolate and silky, as also the hypanthium. Petals obovate, 
a little exceeding the sepals. Fruit sub-hemispheric, .75-1 em. in diameter; achenes superficial. 
FI. Mexicana is most nearly related to F. Californica, from which it only differs in the smaller size, 
the narrower leaflets, the fewer leaves and the solitary seape. It much resembles the European F. 
collina from which it is easily distinguished by the spreading, not connivent fruiting sepals. If not in 
fruit it may be confounded with the quite similar /. pumila ; it differs, however, in the more slender 
scape and petioles and their spreading pubescence. It is a native of Mexico. 
Mexico: F. Miller, Nos. 1355 and 1544, 1853; Dr. J. Gregg, No. 696, 1849; C.G. Pringle, No. 
4160, 1892 ; Edw. Palmer; *Seemann, No. 2178; * Liebman ; * Coulter, No. 94; *Schiede ; * Ehren- 
berg; Edw. Palmer, No. 313, 1885 ; No. 326, 1880; E. W. Nelson, No. 197, 1894. 
Lower California: T. 8. Brandegee, No. 205. 1890. 
6. Fragaria vesca L. 
Fragaria vesca Li. Sp. Pl. 494. 1753. 
L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2: 708. Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 211; Willd. Sp. Pl. 2: 8090; Persoon, 
Syn. Pl. 2: 53; Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 3: 271; Spreng. Syst. 2: 533; Seringe in 
DC. Prod. 2: 569; Don, Gard. Dict. 2: 542; .Dietr. Syn. Pl. 8: 176. Spach, Hist, 
Nat. 1: 465; Vilmorin, Jard. Fruit. Mus. 1, ¢; Decaisne, Jard. Fruit. Mus. Frag. 27, ¢.* 
Eat. Man. Ed. 2, 249; Ed. 3, 282; Ed. 5, 220; Ed. 6, 148; Ed. 7, 306; Beck, Bot. 
105; Ed. 2, 98; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1: 448; Eat. & Wright, N. A. Bot. 246; Gray, 
