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but less so at its origin than at the tip. The lateral leaflets are the same width near their 

 petiolules, not quite as long, & terminate in a narrower point. Their margins have long 

 teeth ending in sharp points with sides in the form of very curved arcs. The inside is light 

 green, slightly yellow; the outside is whitish green. The outside has raised ridges that give 

 rise to a very large number of highly protruding small veins, & the inside is deeply 

 indented to the same extent by corresponding grooves. Thus the surface of the leaves is 

 rough to the touch, & they have none of the gloss of the leaves on American strawberry 

 plants. 



Its big stems grow straight up and bear on their first node a single leaf consisting 

 of three quite large leaflets. They divide & subdivide into several branches & pedicels 

 that support from nine to fifteen flower buds. Since almost all of them are at the same 

 height when they open, & most of them open at the same time, they form a sort of 

 bouquet above the leaves. That is why in some locations the hautbois is called the 

 bouquet strawberry plant . 



The first flowers are ten or eleven lignes in diameter; the last ones are about six to 

 nine. The inner sections of the calyx are large & wide. The small ones are about half the 

 size & very rarely split. As soon as the flowers open, all of these sections are reflexed 

 outward & bend back toward the pedicel. The petals, normally not more than five in 

 number, are large, well rounded at the tip, and slightly wider than they are long. They're 

 very pure white, except for the unguis that has a beautiful light yellow tinge. At first 

 they're concave. Later they smooth out & are reflexed outward onto the sections of the 

 calyx. This further uncovers & reveals the receptacle which is very big, very high, & 

 covered with a large number of pistils in good condition. The filaments of the stamens are 

 very thick at their base. 



