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with Cinquefoil. Lime and manure, however, will work wonders in the 
worst of soils. 
7. FRAGA’RIA, Tournef. StRawperry. 
[Latin, fragrans, odorous ; in reference to its fragrant fruit.] 
Calyz, corolla, and stamens, the same as in Potentilla. Styles deeply 
lateral. Akenes numerous, smooth, scattered on the enlarged succulent 
erennial sto- 
or pul 
loniferous herbs. Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets Joweeioie dentate. ioe 
several, cymose on a bias cd peduncle ; etimes di@cious by abor- 
ion. 
AH, 
L F. ves’ca, L. Peduncles usually longer than the leaves ; sa asal of ag 
fruit tha fruit conical or hemispherical,—the akenes ; 
Eatasie Fracarta. English Strawberry. Garden cowie 
Fr. Le Fraisier. Germ. Die Erdbeerpflanze. Span. Fresera. a 
perennial, and the leaves often green through the winter. 
Whole plant hairy. Root : : 
Stem very short—but several slender prostrate radicating rumners, 1-2 feet long, are 
e root. common , } 
thrown out from the crown of th most! ical ; petioles 3-8 or 9 
inches long ; leaflets ovate or aes obovate, es 1- a or 4 inches long. Cymes 5-12 
or 15-flowered, with 2 or 3 foliaceous bracts pon mpcles & of 528 12 inches 
in length. Flowers sometimes abortive. Paolo regarded 
as the fruit) red ee white, often long ay pe no bearing an akenes super- 
ficially and rather prominently on, per even surface. ; 
Gardens : cultivated ; also indigenous. 7. April. Fr. May-June. 
Fie. 83. Strawberry Fragaria vesca) with numerous stamens. pistils. 
gin ce nomena te tee rom ch pt) calor pr ha 
enlarged and ay ee: 
