BARREN STRAWBERRY 165 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



95. Riibus fruticosiis ( = nisticamis, Merc.). Stem prostrate, arched, 

 angular, prickly, with stellate hairs, leaves quinate, downy, white below, 

 flowers pink, calyx downy, in terminal panicle, fruit a drupe, small, tart. 



Barren Strawberry (Potentilla sterilis, Garcke) 



The present distribution in the North Temperate Zone of Europe 

 and N. Africa is all we know of this plant. In England and Wales it 

 is generally distributed, but it does not occur in South Lines, Mid 



Photo. Flatters & Garnett 



BARREN STRAWBERRY (Potentilla sterilis, Garcke) 



Lanes, Roxburgh, Mid and N. Ebudes, E. Sutherland, Caithness, 

 Orkney, Shetland. It is found at a height of 2100 ft. in Wales. It 

 is common to Ireland and the Channel Islands. 



The Barren Strawberry is more fond of the open than the Wild 

 Strawberry. It is a common roadside flower growing amongst the 

 sward at the side of the macadam. It is also to be found in woods, 

 where it forms wide patches. Banks are again a favourite habitat of 

 this pretty wild flower. By the wayside its white flowers contrast with 

 the yellow blooms of the Silverweed, which, however, flowers later as a 

 general rule. 



This little gem of a flower is, as its former second Latin name, 

 fragariastrum, implies, like the strawberry in habit, that is to say, 



