ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 



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 i 

 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 oveiB 

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

 strawberry, meaning "fragrant." 



Wood Strawber-y A slender little P lant ' g rowin g in %& 

 Fragdria bracteaia shade, in rich soil, along streams, in rocky! 

 White woods and producing runners very freely. I 



Spring, summer The stipules are papery and reddish, thcl 

 West thin, dull-green leaves are slightly silky on! 



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

 and coarsely toothed, somewhat wedge-shaped, broad all 

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

 usually a little bract, halfway up, on both the flower-stall; j 

 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, the akenesl 

 scattered over its smooth, shining, even surface and biri 

 slightly attached to it. 



A charming plant, a few inches tallh 

 Sand Strawberry 



Fraghria wltn thick, glossy, dark green leaves) 



Chiloensis paler and hairy on the under side, ancl 



White pure-white flowers, with bright yellovU 



Spring, summer centers> T ^ are about an inch acros | 

 Wash., Oreg., Cal. 



and are well set off by the masses of darll 



foliage. This has large, delicious berries and growl 

 abundantly on beaches and sand dunes near the sea, fronl 

 San Francisco to Alaska. It is often cultivated. 



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