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corymbed ; lobes of the calyx ovate, long acuminate, shorter than the 

 corol ; petals nearly round. 



HAB. Rocks. Can. to Geor. June. f>. Stem 3 4 feet high. 

 Flowers large, purple. Fruit large, yellow, well flavored, but 

 not abundant. Flowering Raspbemj. 



7. DALIBARDA. Linn. 



Calyx with the tube short concave ; limb 5 6-cleft, naked 

 without ; lobes dentate. Petals 5. Stamens many, deciduous. 

 Ovaries 5 10, with short terminal styles. Acmes few, dry, 

 adhering to the calyx. Icosqndria. Polygynia, 



D. repens Linn. : stem creeping ; leaves simple, cordate, crenate ; 

 stipules linear-setaceous ; peduncles 1 -flowered; calyx smooth with- 

 out, reflexed. F. violxoides Mich. Rubus dalibarda Linn. 



HAB. Mountains. Can. and N. S. June. 1. Steins herba- 

 ceous, rooting and creeping. Leaves on long petioles. Flowers 

 solitary, white, on long nearly radical peduncles. 



8. FRAGARIA. Tourn. 



Calyx with the tube concave, 5-cleft, and with 5 bracts 

 without, (or 10-cleft.) Petals 5. Stamens many. Carpels 

 naked, fixed on a long pulpy deciduous receptacle. Style la- 

 teral. Icosandria. Polygynia. 



1. F. virginiana Linn. : leafets broad-oval, smoothish above, the la- 

 teral ones distinctly petioled ; hairs of the petioles spreading, of the 

 peduncles appressed ; peduncles and petioles of the length of the 

 leaves ; receptacle pendulous ; styles long. 



HAB. Fields. From Arctic America to Florida, and W. to the 

 Miss. May. Z. Stem short. Flowers white. 



Wild Straicberry. 



2. F. canadensis Mich. : larger ; leafets broad-oval, lateral ones mani- 

 festly petioled ; pedicels long, recurved-pendulous ; receptacle of the 

 seeds globose, favose-scrobiculate, villous. 



HAB. Sandy woods. Can. and N. S. N. to Hudson's Bay. April, 

 May. 21. Much larger than the former and apparently dis- 

 tinct, although generally considered identical. I have fine speci- 

 mens from the vicinity of Little Falls, N. Y. 



Mountain Strawberry. 



3. F. vesca Linn. : stoloniferous ; lobes of the leaves plicate, thin, 

 pilose beneath ; fruit pendulous ; sepals reflexed after flowering ; pe- 

 duncles with appressed hairs. 



HAB. Fields. N. S. April, May. U- Introduced. There 

 are a great many cultivated varieties of this species. 



Common Strawberry* 



