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doubt as to whether the American plant is closely 

 enough like the European to warrant one in calling it 

 the same species. Until very recent years it has been 

 known by the name of the European plant, Fragaria 



Fig. 115. Fruit of 

 Fragaria America 

 Natural size. 



Fig. 11C. 

 Fragaria Americana. 



vesca, but Professor Porter now proposes to call it 

 Fragaria Americana. The Cordilleran form of it has 

 been known as Fragaria Mexicana. The characters of 

 the plant are well shown in Figs. 115 and 116. There 

 are white-fruited forms. Fragaria Americana has never 

 been ameliorated by the plant -breeder, and it has less 



