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New Mexico: Tierra Amarilla; Taog; Santa F3 and Las Vegas mountains; San Do- 

 mingo; Los Lunas; Socorro; Mogollon Mountains; Mesilla Valley; Sacramento Moun- 

 tains. Cliiefly in the Transition Zone, in wet ground, especially in sandy soil along 



streams. 



8. FBAGARIA L. Strawberry. 



Small herbaceous perennials with short scaly rootstocks bearing rosettes of leaves 

 and slender runners rooting to fonn new plants; leaves trif oliolate ; hypantliium almost 

 flat; bractlete, sepals, and petals normally 5; petals white; stamens about 20, in 3 

 series; receptacle conic or rounded, bearing numerous pistils, becoming enlarged and 

 juicy in fruit. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaves densely silky beneath, even at maturity 1. F. mexicana. 



Leaves glabrate beneath at maturity . 



Pubescence of the scapes and petioles appressed; leaves thick, 



cuneate-oblong 2. F. ovalis. 



Pubescence of scapes and petioles spreading or reflexed; leaves 



thin, mostly obovate 3. F. bracteata. 



In the North American Flora several other species are reported from New Mexico." 

 F. californica Schlecht. & Cham., F. americana (Porter) Britten, and F. glauca (S. 

 Wats.) Rydb. The reports of F. americana and F. californica are based, partly at least, 

 upon specimens of F. bracteata. We have seen no New Mexican specimens that could 

 be referred to either of these species or to F. glauca. 



1. Fragaria mexicana Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 265. 1839. 

 Type locality: Near Jalapa, Mexico. 



Range: Central Mexico, Lower California, and southwestern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Mogollon Moimtains. 



It is doubtful whether our specimens really belong to this species, but they certainly 

 are more closely related to it tlian to any other. Our material is not in the best of 

 condition, hence it is impossible to make" a thorough comparison. 



2. Fragaria ovalis (Lehm.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 33: 143. 1906. 

 Potentilla ovalis Lehm. Delect. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1849: 9. 1849. 

 Fragaria firma Rydb. Mem. Bot. Columb. Coll. 2: 184. 1898. 



Type locality: New Mexico, probabljr in the mountains east of Santa Fe. 

 Type collected by Fendler (no. 206). 



Range: Wyoming to Arizona and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Manzanares Valley; Winsors Ranch; Santa Fe Canyon; near the head 

 of the Nambe. Shaded hillsides, in the Transition Zone. 



3. Fragaria bracteata Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 194. 1896. 



Type locality; ''In a meadow along Santa Fe Creek, 9 miles east of Santa Fe," 

 New Mexico. The labels of the type collection say "four miles" instead of "nine." 

 Type collected by Heller (no. 3615). 



Range: British Columbia and Montana to Califoi'nia and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Cliama; Pajarito Park; Rio Pueblo; Santa Fe 

 and Las Vegas mountains; Sierra Grande; Sandia Mountains; Magdalena Mountains; 

 White and Sacramento mountains. Meadows, in the Transition Zone. 



A very common strawbeny in the mountains. The fruit, although small, is of 

 good flavor. 



9. SIBBALDIA L. 



Dwarf tufted alpine perennial with thick trifoliolate stipulate leaves and small yel- 

 low flowers on scapelike leafless peduncles; calyx persistent; sepals longer than the 

 petals; achenes 5 to 10, on very short hairy stipes. 



