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Leaflets roundish or ovate, cuneate at the base, glabrate or glabrous 

 above, coriaceous. Scape about the length of the leaves, somewhat 

 umbellately few-flowered. Flowers on pedicels l'-2' long, from a 

 many bracted base. Fruit (which is the soft receptacle, in or upon 

 which the true fruits (achenia) are situated) i'-l' long, edible. 



The Strawberry seems to be best satisfied with a liigh mountain climate ; abundant on 

 Hualalai, Mauna Kea, Haleakala, &c., at an elevation of 4,000°- 8,000". Also from Cbill 

 and on the coast of California and Oregon. 



3. KQMSK Linn. 



Calyx-tube persistent, variously shaped, naked or armed with 

 spreading spines, constricted in the throat, 3-7 lobed; the lobes val- 

 vate. Petals none. Stamens 1 - 10, inserted on the throat of the 

 calyx; the fllaments short. Carpels 1-2, included within, but not 

 connate with, the calyx-tube, sessile. Achenia dry, coriaceous. Seed 

 pendulous, with a membranaceous testa. Eadicle short, superior. — 

 Herbs, sometimes somewhat woody at the base, decumbent or some- 

 what spreading, glabrous or sericeous. Flowers spiked at the apex of 

 an erect bracted scape. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, leaflets in- 

 cised or serrate, sometimes multifld. Stipules adnate to and sheath- 

 ing the base of the petiole. Fruits often in a spiny head. 



G-enus of about 30 species, found in cold and temperate regions. 



A. EXiGUA (rray. {Enum. No. 12^.') Scape 4' -6' high, from a very 

 dense rosulate cluster of leaves about an inch long. Leaflets 7-8 

 pairs, ci'owded, very small, ovate or oblong, commonly two-lobed or 

 toothed, the upper surface buUate, glabrous and shining, the lower 

 concave, whitened with a minute close-pressed pubescence. Inflores- 

 cence a small, cylindrical spike, about i' long. Flowers minute, 

 crowded, subtended by subulate bracts. Calyx-lobes 4 or 5, oblong, 

 glabrous ; the ovoid tube covered with slender bristles, retrorsely 

 barbed af the apex. 



On the summits and higher parts of the mountains of West Maui and Kauai. 



4. OSTEOMELES Lindl. [Ulei.] 

 Calyx-tube campauulate or turbinate, adnate to the carpels, 5- 

 lobed ; lobes lanceolate or subulate, acute, persistent. Petals 5, oblong 

 spreading. Stamens 10 -many, inserted on the throat of the calyx. 

 Carpels 5, more or less concrete among themselves. Styles as many; 

 stigmas thick and truncate. Ovules solitary in each cell, erect. Fruit 

 a pome, or berry-like, the hard pyrense often cohering among them- 

 selves, and often not adhering to the calyx at the apex. Seed erect, 

 compressed, with a membranaceous testa. — Trees or branching 

 shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, coriaceous, evergreen, simple or 



