ROSE FAMILY. 



There are a good many kinds of Strawberry, natives of 

 the north temperate zone and the Andes. They are 

 perennials, with running stems, rooting at the joints; the 

 flowers white, or rarely pink, with slender, often drooping 

 pedicels, forming loose clusters; the flower-stalks springing 

 from tufts of root-leaves, which have three, toothed leaflets 

 and a pair of sheathing stipules at the base of the long leaf- 

 stalk; the sepals five, alternating with sepal-like bractlets; 

 the petals five, with short claws and not notched; the 

 stamens numerous, with slender filaments; the receptacle 

 roundish or cone-shaped, becoming enlarged, red and 

 juicy, in fruit, bearing minute, dry akenes, scattered over 

 its surface, or set in pits. Fragum is the Latin name for 

 strawberry, meaning "fragrant." 



A slender little plant, growing in light 

 Wood Strawber-y , 



Fragtria bractedta shade, in rich soil, along streams, in rocky 

 White woods and producing runners very freely 



Spring, suMmer The stipules are papery and reddish, the 

 West thin, dull-green leaves are slightly silky on 



the upper side, when young, and the leaflets are sharply 

 and coarsely toothed, somewhat wedge-shaped, broad at 

 the tips, the two side ones uneven at base. There is 

 usually a little bract, halfway up, on both the flower-stalk 

 and the leaf-stalk. The flowers are nearly an inch across, 

 with fuzzy, bright yellow centers, and the fruit is light red, 

 with a good flavor, somewhat cone-shaped, tj^sr. a^ 

 scattered over its smooth, shining, even surface and but 

 slightly attached to it. 



Sand Strawberry , A charmin g P lant a few inches tall > 



Fragtiria w ith thick, glossy, dark green leaves, 



Chiloensis paler and hairy on the under side, and 



White pure-white flowers, with bright yellow 



W^O^CaJ centers ' The > 7 are about an inch across 

 * and are well set off by the masses of dark 



foliage. This has large, delicious berries and grows 

 abundantly on beaches and sand dunes near the sea, from 

 San Francisco to Alaska. It is often cultivated. 



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