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to five inches long, aren't as wide as those of the common cultivated strawberry plant & 

 are very thick. They're pale green on the outside and accented by very prominent veins. 

 The inside isn't as hairy as the outside. It's dark green & the grooves aren't very distinct. 

 The central leaflet, supported on a petiole two to four lignes long, is rounded at the end & 

 not very sharp at its origin. It's twenty-four to twenty-seven lignes long & eighteen to 

 twenty-one lignes wide. The lateral leaflets are much wider near their origins than at their 

 tips. Their length & width are about equal. The midrib divides them lengthwise into two 

 portions, the lower one being much larger than the other. Thus all the leaflets are wider in 

 proportion to their length than those of any other strawberry plant. The margins have 

 teeth that are neither very sharp nor deep. Some are pointed like the shield on a coat of 

 arms, others like an arc of a circle, some are sharper, and all terminate in a very tiny 

 point. It's not unusual to find one or two appendages eight or ten lignes long & seven or 

 eight lignes wide on the stalk. While the leaves are young, the leaflets retain much of the 

 configuration they had when they were inside the bud, rolled up or hollowed spoonlike. 

 Later on they open up & spread out more. 



The upright shoots are quite straight, not very branched, & rarely have more than 

 seven or eight flower buds, the last ones of which usually abort. The flowers at the first 

 nodes are very large; some are more than eighteen lignes in diameter when spread out. 

 However the petals are rolled up, folded, pleated on the edges, & the placement of the 

 sections of the calyx prevent them from opening completely because they tend to be close 

 together. After the petals fall off. 



