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A creeping plant, with white flowers. Leaves on long peti- 

 oles, heart shaped, obtuse, crenate, covered with thin hairs. 

 Peduncles as long as the petioles, terminating in a single flower. 

 Calyx segments ovate, ciliale, somewhat toothed. Petals oval, 

 stamens capillary; styles few. — Among the decayed leaves ia 

 woods. Princeton. — June. 



Dalibarda fragartoides. Mx. Yellow Daliborda. 



Leaves ternate, leafets wedge shaped, cut serrate, 

 ciliate : scapes many flowered ; tube of the calyx 

 conical. 

 Syn. CoMAROPSis fragarioides. De Cand. 



Considerably larger than the foregoing, with some resem- 

 blance to the strawberry. Leaves in threes, lobed and toothed, 

 nearly smooth, ciliate. Scapes slender, furnished with a few 

 simple or ternate, lanceolate bractes. Panicle few flowered; 

 pedicels elongated, slightly hairy. Germs acute at base; calyx 

 acute; petals oblong, yellow. Filaments numerous, persistent 

 after the anthers have fallen. Woods, Hanover, New Hamp- 

 shire. — June. 



223. FRAGARIA. 

 Fragaria Virginiana. Elir. Wild Straicberry. 



Calyx of the frnit spreading; hairs of the petioles 

 erect, of the peduncles appressed ; leaves smooth 

 above. TV Hid. 



The common wild strawberry is a very delicious fruit, and 

 when cultivated is inferior to few imported species. The ber- 

 ries ripen early, are of a light scarlet color, exquisitely flavored, 

 but more soft and perishable than the other kinds. The herb- 

 age is more smooth and even, than in other species, the pedun- 

 cles shorter, so that the fruit is commonly concealed under the 

 leaves. Flowers white, appearing in May. 



Wild strawberries are frequently sour from the circumstance 

 of their ripening in the shade among the high grass. 



