FRAGARIA 



FRASERA 



1273 



moschata, Duchesne (F. elatior, Ehrh.). HAXTTBOIS. 

 Taller, usually dioecious, more pubescent, the calyx or 

 hull strongly reflexed from the fr.: berry dull red, 

 musky. Eu. Cult, forms rarely seen in Amer. 



mexicana, Schlecht. Lvs. few and scape solitary: 

 Ivs. rather thin, soon becoming smooth above, the 

 slender silky petioles 2-3 in. long; Ifts. oblong-obovate 

 or cuneate, coarsely serrate: fls. usually less than ^in. 



1572. A frame. It accommodates four sashes. 



diam., on scapes 2-4 in. high; sepals and bracts silky; 

 petals obovate: fr. nearly hemispheric, small, the 

 achenes superficial. Cent. Mex. The "everbearing 

 strawberry," frequently advertised, is said to belong 

 here. F. calif ornica, Cham. & Schlecht., is similar 

 but has much longer petioles and broadly rounded or 

 rhomb-ovate Ifts., somewhat larger fls. and fr., and the 

 achenes in shallow pits. Calif., New Mex., Lower Calif. 



L. H. B. 



FRAGRANT BALM: Monarda didyma. 



FRAME. Fig. 1572. A box without permanent top or 

 bottom which is designed, when covered with glass or 

 other transparent material, as a place in which to grow 

 plants. When supplied with artificial bottom heat, the 

 frame is part of a hotbed ; when supplied only with sun 

 heat, it is part of a coldframe. The frame may be of 

 any size, but the normal size is 6 by 12 feet, an area 

 which accommodates four 3- by 6-foot sashes; and 

 this 6 by 12 area is understood when one speaks of "a 

 frame." . See Hotbed. 



FRANCfSCEA: Brunfelsia. 



FRANCOA (Fr. Franco, Valencia, sixteenth century, 

 promoter of botany). Saxifragdcese. Two or three 

 species of Chilean perennial herbs, with lyrate leaves 

 and terminal dense racemes of white or pink flowers 

 borne in summer, suitable for outdoor planting in 

 mild climates. 



Plants erect, scapose, the Ivs. basal or nearly so. 

 2-3 ft. high, and in the N. could perhaps be wintered 

 in a coldframe: glandular-pilose or tomentose: rhi- 

 zome thick, many-headed: Ivs. glandu- 

 lar-dentate: fls. 1 in. across, in racemes 

 6 in. long; floral parts in 4's rarely 5's; 

 petals obovate, clawed; stamens 4: 

 caps, coriaceous, elongated, 4-angled 

 and 4-celled. 



A. Fls. white. 



ramdsa, D. Don. (F. glabrata, DC.). 

 Taller, woodier and more branching 

 than the others, and distinguished by 

 pubescent infl. : If .-stalks not margined: 

 fls. smaller. Hardy at Washington, 

 D. C., with spikes 2 ft. long and 1 in. 

 thick. Forms are known under the 

 names F. ramosa hybrida (G.W. 7:230, 

 a robust plant with pure white fls. 

 larger than the type); and F. ramosa 

 Candida. F. ramosa is an attractive 

 species. Gt. 60: 1590. Gn. 69, pp. 271, 

 343; 70, p. 283. G.L. 24:177. G. 7: 

 741; 13:307. G.M.49:127. 



AA. Fls. mostly pink. 



sonchifSlia, Cav. Fig. 1573. Lf.-stalks broadly 

 winged at the base; lower lobes continuous with the 

 broad margin at the base of the If .-stalk: petals deep 

 rose, dark-spotted. B.M. 3309. By some considered 

 to be a variety of F. appendiculata. 



appendiculata, Cav. Lf.-stalks not winged at the base ; 

 lower lobes distant from the base of the stalk: 

 petals pale rose, rarely spotted. B.M. 3178 

 (shows a white longitudinal band on petals). 

 B.R. 1645. L.B.C. 19:1864, erroneously 

 named F. sonchifolia. R.H. 1906, pp. 428, 429. 

 G.W. 12, p. 260. L. H. B.f 



FRANGLPANI: Plumeria* 



FRANKENIA (John Frankenius, Swedish 

 botanist, 1590-1661). Frankenidcese. Low 

 perennials, evergreen, sometimes woody, 

 mostly in saline soils, more or less heath-like : 

 Ivs. opposite or in 4's, thickish, entire, small 

 and numerous on the sts., often fascicled on 

 short branchlets: fls. small, perfect and complete, sessile 

 or nearly so, solitary or in dichotomous clusters; calyx 

 and corolla 4-5-merous, the sepals united, the petals 

 with a crown at the base of the blade; stamens usually 

 same number as petals and alternate with them; style 

 3-4-cleft; ovary 1 -celled, with parietal placentae, ripen- 

 ing into a caps, inclosed in the calyx. Probably 30 spe- 

 cies in many parts of the world, a very few of them in the 

 S. W. U. S. The family Frankeniacese is closly allied to 

 Caryophyllaceae, from which it differs in the parietal 

 placentae, and to Hypericaceae, from which it differs in 

 habit, in the definite stamens 

 and the valvate calyx. The 

 family has 3 other genera, 

 as it is defined by Niedenzu, 

 these being Hypericopsis with 

 1 species in S. Persia, Beat- 

 sonia with 1 species in St. 

 Helena, and Niederleinia with 

 1 species in Patagonia. The 

 frankenias are practically 

 unknown as cult, plants, 

 although sometimes men- 

 tioned as carpeters and for 

 rock-gardens. F. tievis, Linn., 

 the sea-heath, is offered. It 

 is a diffusely much-branched 

 plant, spreading 6-8 in., gla- 

 brous or nearly so: 

 Ivs. revolute and 

 thereby appearing 

 linear, crowded in 

 opposite clusters: 

 fls. few, sessile in 

 terminal leafy clus- 

 ters, pink. Eng- 

 land and the Medit. 

 region. F. pulveru- 

 lenta, Linn., is a 

 closely allied hairy 

 species; it has been 

 reported in ballast 

 at New York. 



L. H. B. 



FRASERA (John 

 Fraser, English 

 botanist, collected 

 in Amer. 1785-96 

 and published 

 Walter's "Flora 

 Caroliniana"). Gen- 

 1573. Francoa sonchifolia. ( X \) tianaceas. CoLUMBO. 



