Fragaria.) ROSACEAE. 117 
filiform. Flowers few. Peduncles 9—12” long, single, or two or more 
or not. Calyx tomentose, setoso-aculeate at the base, 8—‘ igh, cleft 
to one half its length or more, the lobes ovate, entire, drawn out into a 
long acute point. Petals longer, glandular-ciliate, obovate, entire, oo 
Stamens half as long. Achenes scantily ae rather dry, short 
than the angibaes styles. — Fruit ovoid, red, t 8” in diameter, saa 
and unpalatable. — Mrs. waeun OL 43 (stem meee 15 ft. high). 
«On the bullock plains and in of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii» 
(U. 8. E. E.), Kona, (M. & B B.)? Maui, "southern slope * Holeakata! near pads — 
from Ulupalakua to the crater, v t. 
with Geranium arboreum., Acco rain ng to Gray ben drceageed pots “ nearest pte 2 ei 
R. spectabilis, Pursh, from the N. W. coast of Am 
var.? inermis. — Stems prostrate, ihe nt unarmed, subherba- 
almost glabrate. Calyx silky (not setose) at the base, 0 
Achenes glabrous, or faintly pubescent with glandular hair. — Wawra, in 
Flora, 1873, 
Maui! Molokai! eaunil Hawaii, Waimea and Hilo (U. E, E.), at elevations 
0 —4000 ft. Ought perhaps to rank as species on acount of ot eran habit and 
want of spines, although in other respects it agrees fairly with R. Hawaiiensis. 
es: — From Mr. J. Lydgate I pa bee a single leaf, collected 
on a Kula se of Haleakala, which is of extraordinary size, more 
than 1 ft. length, the 3 leaflets ride al glabrous, pale green, 
ovate, 7— ge s 5—6', acute, sharply inciso-lobate and dentate, even at 
the rounded or subcordate base, the petiolule of the terminal leaflet 20’, 
those of the lateral ones 6“, all densely covered, as well as the snares 
midribs and veins, with patent and slender rufous prickles of 1—3“ 
, peel (a few even on the upper side), besides a scanty pubescence. 
t the specific distinctness of the specimen n there can hardly be a doubt, and it 
ayy expec that closer rr os the Hawaiian Raspberries will bring to light 
il additions to ‘oe polymorphous 
2. REN Tourn. 
Calyx flat, deeply 5-cleft, with as many bractlets at the sinuses, thus 
appearing 10-cleft, with lobes valvate. Petals 5, obovate, shortly clawed. 
Stamens many in one series on the margin of a calycine disk. Carpels 
many, collected in a head on a raised receptacle which in fruit becomes 
conical, pulpy and scarlet, bearing the minute dry achenes scattered over 
its Lh Styles lateral. Ovule solitary, ascending. — Stemless perennials 
with runners and with white cymose flowers on scapes. Leaves radical, 
with 3 hea Sasha serrate leaflets. Stipules cohering with the 
base of the p 
A few mare need over th 
as also the Andes of S. praliewate 
i Sei . f the northern hemisphere, 
