GENUS 23. 



269 



i. Waldsteinia fragarioides 



(Michx.) Tratt. Barren or 

 Dry Strawberry. Fig. 2273. 



Dalibarda fragarioides Michx. Fl. Bor. 



Am. i : 300. pi. 28. 1803. 

 Waldsteinia fragarioides Tratt. Ros. 



Mon. 3 : 107. 1823. 



Pubescent or nearly glabrous, root- 

 stock creeping, rather stout. Stip- 

 ules ovate-lanceolate, acutish ; leaves 

 tufted, long-petioled,3-foliolate( rarely 

 5-foliolate) ; leaflets obovate, obtuse 

 at the apex, broadly cuneate at the 

 base, dentate or crenate and some- 

 times incised, \'-2 long; scapes slen- 

 der, erect, bracted, corymbosely 

 3-8-rlowered ; pedicels slender, often 

 drooping; flowers yellow, 3"-5" 

 broad ; achenes 4-6, finely pubescent ; 

 :alyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute. 



Woods and shaded .hillsides. New 

 Brunswick to Ontario, Minnesota, Mich- 

 gan, Indiana and Georgia. May-June. 



2. Waldsteinia Doniana Tratt. Southern Dry 

 Strawberry. Fig. 2274. 



W. Doniana Tratt. Ros. Mon. 3: 109. 1823. 



W, parviflora Small, Bull. Torr. Club 25: 137. 1898. 



Perennial by horizontal rootstocks, villous-hirsute, 

 or glabrous in age. Leaves basal, s'-ia' high ; petioles 

 much longer than the blades, usually less densely pubes- 

 cent than the scapes; leaflets cuneate-obovate or broadly 

 rhomboidal, i-$' long, coarsely and irregularly crenate 

 or lobed; scapes erect, solitary or several together, com- 

 monly shorter than the leaves, corymbose at top ; calyx 

 usually hairy, the tube broadly turbinate, ii"-ii" long, 

 the segments triangular-lanceolate, or lanceolate-acumi- 

 nate, often shorter than the tube ; petals linear-oblong 

 or narrowly elliptic, shorter than the calyx-segments or 

 barely longer; achenes obovoid, ii" long. 



In woods and shaded soil, southwestern Virginia to 

 North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. March-May. 



24. GEUM L. Sp. PI. 500. 1753. 



Perennial herbs, with odd-pinnate or deeply pinnatifid, stipulate leaves, those of the 

 ;se clustered, those of the stem commonly smaller. Flowers cymose-corymbose or solitary, 

 How, white or purple. Calyx persistent, its tube obconic or hemispheric, usually 5-bracteo- 

 te, 5-lobed. Petals 5, orbicular, oblong or obovate, obtuse or emarginate, exceeding the 

 lyx. Stamens o, inserted on a disk at the base of the calyx; filaments filiform. Carpels o, 

 gregated on a short receptacle. Style filiform, jointed, the lower, part persistent. Seed 

 rect, its testa membranous. [The ancient Latin name.] 



About 40 species, most abundant in the north temperate zone, a few in southern South America, 

 in South Africa. Besides the following, several others occur in western North America. Type 

 secies : Geum urbanum L. 

 alyx-lobes reflexed. 

 Head of fruit sessile in the bracteolate calyx. 



Petals small and inconspicuous ; stipules small. 

 Petals white. 



Hirsute ; receptacle glabrous or downy. 

 Finely pubescent or glabrate ; receptacle densely hairy. 

 Petals yellow ; stem hirsute. 

 Petals large, obovate, golden yellow ; stipules large. 



Hirsute ; terminal leaf-segment very large, usually cordate. 

 Pubescent ; terminal leaf-segment ovate, cuneate or oblanceolate. 

 Head of fruit stalked in the bractless calyx, 

 alyx-lobes erect or spreading; flowers purple, nodding. 



1. G. virginianum. 



2. G. canadense, 



3. G. flavum. 



4. G. macrophyllum. 



5. G. strictum. 



6. G. vernum. 



7. G. rivals. 



