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downy, with a few small prickles, or sometimes wholly unarmed. Sti- 

 pules ovate-oblong or lanceolate, scarcely adhering to the leafstalk. Leaf- 

 lets usually 3, much like those of the Dewberry R., thin, and of a pale 

 green. Flowers on slender pedicels, 2 or 3 together in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, forming very short racemes or corymbs, seldom growing out 

 into short, leafy flowering branches. Petals of a dirty white or greenish 

 yellow, and very narrow. Ben-ies red, with very few rather large cai-pels. 



In open woods, diffused over the mountain regions of Europe and central 

 and Russian Asia ; more abundant, and descending to lower elevations 

 in more northern latitudes. Frequent iu Scotland, in the north of Eng- 

 land, and along tlie western counties to South Wales ; ia Ireland, chiefly 

 in the north. Fl. summer. 



5. Cloudberry Rubus. Rubus Chamseoaorus, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 716. Cloudberry.) 



Eootstock creeping. Stems simple, herbaceous, and unarmed, seldom 

 above 6 inches high. Lower stipules entire, in a short sheath, without 

 leaves ; upper ones distinct, small, and ovate. Leaves few, rather large, 

 simple, broadly orbicular or reniform, toothed, and often more or less 

 deeply cut into 5, 7, or 9 broad lobes. Flowers white, rather large, sohtary 

 on terminal ijeduncles. Fruit rather large, of an orange red. 



In turfy bogs, in northern Europe, Asia, and America, generally at high 

 latitudes, but descending southwards into nortliern Germany. Abundant 

 in Scotland, and extends also into northern England, Wales, and Ireland. 

 Fl. summer. 



VI. STRAV/'BSRRV. FRAGAEIA. 



Habit, foliage, and flowers of Potentil, but the fruit is succulent, formed 

 of the enlarged succulent receptacle, studded on the outside with the nu- 

 merous minute, 1-seeded carpels, looking like seeds. 



A genus spread over nearly the whole of the northern hemisphere without 

 the tropics, where it consists, perhaps, but of a single species, and represented 

 again by a nearly alhed but possibly distinct species in southern extra- 

 tropical America. 



1. Common Strawberry. Fragaria vesca, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1524, and Suppl. t. 2742. Strawberry.) 



A short, perennial, tufted stock often emits slender runners, rooting and 

 forming new plants at every node. Leaves mostly radical, more or less 

 clothed with soft, silky hau-s, consisting of 3 ovate, toothed leaflets at the 

 end of a long leafstalk. Flower-stems radical, erect, leafless, or with 1 or 

 2 usually undivided leaves, 3 to 6 inches high or rarely more, bearing a 

 small number of pedicellate white flowers. Fruit usually red. 



In woods, bushy pastures, and under hedges, throughout Europe and 

 Russian and central Asia, and in northern America, extending to the Ai-ctic 

 regions. Abundant in Britain. Fl. nearly the whole season. The Haut- 

 boy, a rather taller variety, with fewer runners and flowers, usually entirely 

 or partially unisexual, has been distinguished as a species under the name 

 of F. elatior (Eng. Bot. t. 2197) ; and several other wild or cultivated va- 

 rietieshave been proposed as species, but the great facihty with which fertile 



