172 MEMOIRS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 



4. Fragaria Californica Cham. & Schl. 



Fnujana CaUfonrin Cham. & SchL Liniiaoa, 2 : 20. JS87. 



Wats. Bot. CaL 1: 177; Hook & Arn. Bot. Beechey, 140; K. Brandegee, Zoe, 2: 

 349 ; Greene, Pittonia, 2 : 262; FL Fran. 1 :70. .Man. Bay Reg. ]S7; Behr, FL A^ic. 

 San Fran. 248. 



Fmgaria vescn var. j- Torr. & Gray, FL N. A. 1: 448. In part. 



Fragaria vesca Benth. PI. Hartw. 309. 



Gray, PL Fend. 42, 1849 ; Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4 : 85 (in part ; Calif, spec.) ; Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. Snrv. 64. 



Fragaria liicida Vilmorin ; Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. (IV.) 8 : 201 ; Gard. Chron. 1858 : 

 877 ; Decaisne, Jard. Fruit. Mus. Frag. 58, pi 



Rootstock short but not very thick, crowned by several rather thin leaves. Stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, brown ; petioles slender, 3-10 cm. long, sparingly covered with long 

 white silky spreading or reflexed hairs ; terminal leaflet 2-5 cm. long, rounded-obovate, 

 obtuse, coarsely serrate, subsessile, glabrate above, appressed-silky beneath ; lateral ones 

 similar but very oblique at the base. Runners long and slender. Scapes generally 

 several, 2-5-flowered, slender, silky with spreading or reflexed hairs, generall}^ less than 

 1 dm. high and seldom leafy-bracteate. Flowers 1-1.5 cm. in diameter. Hypanthium 

 silky ; bractlets generally somewhat shorter than the sepals, both silky, lanceolate and 

 acuminate or acute ; petals obovate, very little exceeding the sepals. Fruit hemispheric, 

 1-1.5 cm. in diameter ; achenes in shallow pits. 



It is nearest related to F. vesca and F. Mexicana. From the former it differs by the 

 more rounded leaves and the pubescence which is much longer and thicker especially on 

 the under surface of the leaves, and from the latter by the larger and broader leaflets, 

 the more numerous leaves and scapes. It is the m.ost common strawberry in California, 

 extending eastward into New Mexico. 



California : J. M. Bigelow, Whipple Exp., 1853-4; C. C. Parry (Mex. Bound. Surv.), 

 1850; J. Torrey, No. 124, 1865 ; S. B. Parish, No. 8368/1892; No. 3404, 1894; W. L. 

 Jepson, 1891 ; H. W. Henshaw, No. 182, 1893; C. R. Orcutt, 1889 ; S. B. & W. F. Parish, 

 No. 404, 1882 ; Geo. Hansen, No. 8302, 1895, and 298, 1893 ; *Hartweg, No. 8785; Ed. 

 Palmer, No. 82, 1875; B. F. Seeds, No. 2388 ; Mrs. R. :\I. Austin, No. 840, 1893; Alice 

 Eastwood, 1893 ; 1895 ; Blankinship ; W. Price; H. Davis, 1887. 



Neiu Mexico: A. Fendler, No. 207, 1847; Dr. Edwards, 1860; E. O. Wooton, 1895 

 (White Mts.). 



Arizona : J. W. Tourney. 



Lower California: T. S. Brandegee, 1893. 



