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Scape 1-3 dm. high with a petioled unifoliolate leafy bract; pubescence more spread- 

 ing and leaves long-petioled. 



In the extreme forms very unlike the common F. Chiloensls, but running into it. 



California: A. A. and Gertrude Heller, 1896. 



British Columbia: John Macoun, 1889; Scouler. 



Alaska: F. Funston, No. 2, 1892; W. H. Dall, 1874; Thos. Meehan, 1883. 



Oregon: F. E. Lloyd, 1894. 



3- Fragaria crinita. 



Fragaria CaJifornica Newberry, Pac. E. K. Eep. 6 : part 2, 73. 1857. Not Cham. 



Fragaria Chilensis var. Scouleri Wats. Bibl. Ind. 282. In part. 



Rootstock short and thick, but not so much so as in F. Chiloensis. Leaves firm but 

 much thinner than in that species, less veiny beneath and scarcely reticulate, silky above 

 when young, in age glabrate, densely silky and somewhat tomentulose beneath ; petioles 

 slender, 2-10 cm. long, covered with spreading or reflexed, long white silky hairs; leaflets 

 all subsessile, rhombic-obovate, the lateral oblique at the base, more sharply toothed 

 than in F. Chilooisis, and the terminal tooth seldom much smaller than the others. 

 Runners slender and long. Scape seldom over 1 dm. high, with spreading long silky 

 hairs, slender, seldom Avith leafy bracts. Flowers 2-3 cm. in diameter. Hypanthium 

 silky; bractlets and sepals silky, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate. Petals obovate, ex- 

 ceeding the sepals by about a third. Fruit hemispheric, nearly 1 cm. in diameter, 

 somewhat pubescent; achenes in shallow pits. 



F. crinita is almost intermediate between F. Chiloensis and F. Californica and has 

 been confused with both. It may be of hybrid origin. The texture of the leaves is 

 intermediate between that of the others, much thinner and sharper toothed than in F. 

 Chiloensis, but much firmer than in F. Californica. The habit is that of the latter and 

 so is the form of the sepals and bractlets, but the size of the flower is as in the former 

 The pubescence of the scape and petioles is much more spreading than in F. Chiloensis 

 and longer and denser than in F. Californica. A specimen collected by Nuttall on the 

 Columbia has thin leaves and smaller flowers ; it is doubtful whether this should be re- 

 ferred here or to F. Californica. 



Washington : Wilkes' Exped. 



Oregon: T. J. Howell, 1882; J. S. Newberry (Williamson's Exp.); Wilkes' Exped., 



No. 440, 1838-42. 



California: Geo. Thurber, No. 475, 1852; Orcutt, 1889; Brandegee. 



