130 XXIV. BOSACEAE. Geum. 



broad ; segments Imear-oblong ; bractlets very short. Petals large, broadly 

 rounded. Achenes silky; style much longer than the silky ovary, glabrous, 

 minutely hooked at the apex. 



SOUTH Island: local. Nelson: Discovery Peaks, if. H. Travers ! Canterbury: mountains 

 above Arthur's Pass, Cheesevmn ! 3,000ft. to 4,500ft. 



A very distinct species, easily distinguished by the slender 1-flowered scapes and large white 

 flowers with narrow-linear calyx-lobes. 



6. G. leiospermum, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xxvi. (1893) 267. Pubes- 

 cent, silky or villous. Scapes Bin.— 6in. long^ erect or suberect, slender, ulti- 

 mately strict, pubescent or downy, with longer hairs intermixed. Leaves all 

 radical, lin.-2in. long, pinnate, rugose and silky below, glabrate or silky above; 

 terminal leaflet ovate, rounded, unequally sharply toothed, ciliate ; segments 

 5—8, much smaller. Bracts toothed or ■ laciniate. Flowers small, forming a 

 few-flowered lax cymose panicle. Peduncles elongating in fruit, strict. Calyx 

 with a few long scattered hairs, turbinate ; segments deltoid ; bractlets minute. 

 Petals small, white. Stamens 10 or more.- Fruiting receptacle shortly elon- 

 gated, silky. Achenes perfectly glabrous, or rarely with 1 or 2 hairs on the 

 back, slightly turgid, nari'ow-oblong, j^jin.— j^^in. long ; style very short, re- 

 curved, glabrous. 



SOUTH Island : Canterbury ; Broken River Basin, iJmi/s .' Otago : Mount Cardrona, Dunstan 

 Mountains, St. Bathan's, Upper Waipori, Petrie. STEWART Island, Thomson! 



A singular species, distinguished from all others except O. pusillum by the glabrous achenes. 

 Mr. Petrie describes the achenes as " slightly compressed," but tliose on my specimens are only 

 compressed in the young state, the mature specimens being slightly turgid, resembling those of some 

 Eanuncuh. 



7. G. pusillTim, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xxviii. (1895) 538. Leaves all 

 radical, pinnate, obovate in outline, lin. long or less, more or less strigose 

 above, almost glabrous beneath ; terminal leaflet iin. broad, rounded-ovate, 

 crenate-toothed ; segments 3—5, minutely toothed. Scapes yellowish, downy, 

 lin.— 2in. high, naked or with 1 or 2 minute bracts. Flowers solitary, white. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate or deltoid-ovate ; bractlets minute. Petals small, 5-6. 

 Fruiting receptacle shortly elongated, hairy. Achenes perfectly glabrous, ob- 

 liquely oblong ; style minute, shortly recurved. 



SOUTH Island : Otago : Old-man Range, 5,000ft., Petrie ! 



Distinguished from the preceding by the simple 1-flowered scape and minute styles, and from 

 all others by the very small flowers and glabrous achenes. My specimens, for which I am indebted 

 to Mr. Petrie, are imperfect. 



* FRAGARIA, Linn. 



Calyx persistent, 5-lobed, with 5 bractlets at its base, valvate in bud. Petals 6. 

 Stamens numerous. Carpels numerous on a convex receptacle ; style lateral ; ovule 

 1. Fruit of numerous achenes partially imbedded in a large pulpy receptacle. 

 Perennial herbs, usually with 3-foliolate stipulate leaves, erect simple or branched 

 scapes, and hermaphrodite or polygamous flowers and creeping stolons. 



-F. vesca, L., Sp. PL 494. Leaves all radical, on rather long petioles; 

 leaflets sessile, coarsely toothed. Stolons with a rosette of leaves at the apex. 

 Scapes few-flowered. Hairs on the peduncles spreading on the pedicels, adpressed 



