MEMOIRS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY iyer 
Rootstock short and thick, nearly erect. Leaves thin, glabrate above, silky beneath ; 
stipules ovate, scarious ; petioles 2-5 em. long, slightly silky with spreading hairs; termi- 
nal leaflet broadly obovate, truncate, coarsely 3-7-toothed at the apex, 1-2 em. long; 
lateral ones somewhat smaller, oblique at the base. Runners long and slender, rather 
numerous. Scape short, few-flowered, with rather scanty spreading silky hairs. Sepals 
and bractlets broadly lanceolate, acute, otherwise resembling those of the following. 
Fruit unknown. 
It is evidently nearly related to the next species, differing mainly in the acute sepals, 
the few-toothed leaves and larger terminal leaflet. The smaller leaves, especially those 
of the plantlets formed by the runners, much resemble those of Sibbaldia procumbens L. 
California: Near Mt. Whitney along branches of Kern River, Coville & Funston, 
No. 1712 (Death Valley Exp.) 1891. 
Io. Fragaria truncata. 
Rootstock short and thick. Leaves rather few, thin, silky on both sides, but in age 
glabrate above ; stipules oblong or ovate, brown, scarious ; petioles slender, 2-8 cm. long, 
sparingly silky with long spreading hairs; leaflets petiolate, rounded-obovate, round- 
crenate above the middle, with the middle tooth smaller, 1.5-4 em. long, the lateral ones 
very little oblique. Scape slender, few-flowered, seldom exceeding 1 dm. in height, and 
rarely leafy-bracteate, sparingly silky with spreading hairs. Flowers 1-2 em. in diameter. 
Hypanthium, bractlets and sepals sparingly and finely silky ; bractlets and sepals oblong 
or ovate, obtuse or acutish. Petals obovate, exceeding the sepals by about a third. Fruit 
unknown. 
As the fruit is unknown to the author the place of this species is uncertain. If the 
achenes are in pits, 7. ¢., the species belongs to the present group, its place is next 
to I”. platypetala, from which it is easily distinguished by its broad sepals and_bractlets, 
its few-flowered scape, narrower petals and sparser and shorter pubescence. It also seems 
to have some relationship to Ff Chiloensis and F. Californica, the form of the leaves 
resembling most that of the former, while the texture is that of the latter, as is also the 
pubescence, although sparser. 
California: Michener & Bioletti (Nevada Co.), 1893; Thomas Bridges, No. 103; Mrs. 
Austin, 1878 ; T. S. Brandegee. 
11. Fragaria platypetala. 
?Fragaria Virginiana var. glauca Rothr. Wheeler’s Rep. 112. 1878. 
Fragaria Virginiana var. Illinoensis Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: 177. 1876. 
