144 ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Potentilla. 



nearly so : fruit earlier, browner black, more gratefully acid : 

 blossoms larger, white. 



R. cce'sms. Blue B, or Dew-berry. Stems trailing-, 

 round, glaucous, prickly and bristly. Prickles bent 

 downwards. Leaflets three ; hairy beneath ; side ones 

 lobed externally. Calyx embracing the fruit. E. B. 

 826. 



fVoods, bushy places. 



Shrub. Jime. 



Steins weak, trailing, pale-green with bright, glaucous tinge. Ls. 

 leafl., sharply, and doubly saw-toothed ; side ones stalkless, 

 mostly lobed on the outside. Stip. spear-shaped. Foot-stalks 

 prickly, downy ; prickles all slender. Fl. few, terminal, and 

 axillary, panicled, prickly. Cal. in the fl., spreading, points 

 long. Fl. white, sometimes reddish. Pet. waved. Fruit 

 black, its bloom brightly blue tinged : grains few, rather large, 

 agreeably acid, very palatable, but not abundant. 



FRAGA'RIA. Strawberry. 



(F. sterilis. See Potentilla Fragariastrum.) 



F. vesca. Wood S. Calyx of the fruit bent back. 

 Hairs of the foot-stalks widely spreading ; those of the 

 partial flower-stalks close pressed, silky. E. B. 1524. 

 Fragaria. G. E. 997- 



Groves, thickets. 

 Per. May, June. 



Root : runners long, creeping. Stems short, erect, nearly simple. 

 Ls. mostly immediately from the root, long-stalked, in threes, 

 veins parallel. Fl. ujjright, cymose, bracteated. Pet. white, 

 notched. Fruit drooping, egg-shaped, fleshy, red, fragrant, 

 studded with smooth seeds, each with its withered style. 

 The delicious strawberry with its var., the fruit of a cool climate. 

 Fruit considered by Linnaeus, very salutary for gouty constitu- 

 tions. 



{^Fragaria eldtior. Hautboy S. Grounds round Coton 

 House, Warwickshire. Mr. Nelson.^ 



POTENTILLA. Cinquefoil. 



* Leaves winged. 



P. anserma. Silver-weed, or Wild Tansy. Leaves 

 interruptedly winged, saw-toothed, silky. Stem creep- 

 ing. Stalks axillary, solitary, single flowered. E. B. 

 861. Argentina. G. E. 993. 



Osier holts, spongy meadows. 



