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ROSACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



2. Fragaria Grayana Vilmorin. Gray's Straw- 

 berry. Fig. 2253. 



F. Grayana Vilmorin ; Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 8 202 



1857- 

 F. virginiana illinoensis Prince; A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 



155- 1867. 



Similar to F. virginiana, and perhaps a race of that 

 species, but stouter. Leaves firmer in texture; peti- 

 oles densely clothed with spreading or reflexed hairs; 

 leaflets acute or obtuse, coarsely serrate ; scape stout, 

 4'-6" high, hirsute like the petioles ; pedicels with 

 spreading hairs ; calyx-lobes and bractlets linear- 

 lanceolate ; petals nearly orbicular ; fruit subglobose, 

 7"-8" in diameter, the achenes imbedded in pits. 



Dry soil, Indiana to Missouri, Alabama and Louisiana. 

 April-May. 



3. Fragaria virginiana Duchesne. 



Virginia or Scarlet Strawberry. 



Fig. 2252. 



F. virginiana Duchesne, Hist. Nat. Fras. 204. 



1766. 



F. australis Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 22 : 361. 1908. 

 Fragaria terrae-novae Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. 



Col. Univ. 2 : 182. 1898. 



Rather stout, tufted, dark green, more 

 or less villous-pubescent with spreading or 

 sometimes appressed hairs. Petioles 2'-6' 

 long; leaflets thick, or even coriaceous, 

 short-stalked or sessile, broadly oval or 

 obovate, obtuse, dentate-serrate, the ter- 

 minal one generally cuneate, the lateral 

 inequilateral at the base; scape equalling 

 or shorter than the leaves, the fruit being 

 generally borne below them; hairs of the 

 scape more or less spreading; pedicels ap- 

 pressed-pubescent ; calyx-lobes, at least of 

 the sterile flowers, erect at maturity, lanceo- 

 late; petals obovate; fruit red, ovoid, the 

 achenes imbedded in pits. 



In dry soil, Newfoundland to South Dakota, 

 Florida and Oklahoma. Consists of several races. 

 April-June. 



4. Fragaria vesca L. European Wood or 

 Hedge Strawberry. Fig. 2255. 



Fragaria vesca L. Sp. PI. 494. 1753. 



Stout, tufted, dark-green, generally less vil- 

 lous than the two preceding species. Leaflets 

 ovate or broadly oval, obtuse, dentate, broader 

 but nearly or quite as thick, the terminal one 

 cuneate, the others inequilateral at the base; 

 scape commonly exceeding the leaves, so that 

 the fruit is borne above them, sometimes 12' 

 high, its hairs mostly spreading; calyx-lobes re- 

 maining spreading or sometimes reflexed; fruit 

 red, or sometimes white, ovoid-conic, the achenes 

 borne on its smooth and nearly even surface. 



In woods, fields and along roadsides. Naturalized 

 from Europe in the Eastern and Middle States ; ap- 

 parently native northward, the white-fruited race 

 native from Connecticut and New York to Ohio and 

 Kentucky. Sow-tit. Sheep-noses. April-June. 



