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Fragaria Californica Franciscana. 



Low, from a very thick rootstock ; leaves thicker, smaller, and strongly veined. 



This is very unlike the typical F. GaUfornica in general habit, but as I can not find 

 any technical characters by Avhieh to separate it from the species, and as I do not know 

 it from field observations, I have thought it best not to describe it as a distinct species. 



California: (Marin Co.) Alice Eastwood, 189G; (Mt. Tamalpais) T. S. Brandegee, 

 1890 ; both in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. 



5. Fragaria Mexicana Schlecht. 



Fragaria Mexicana Schlecht. Linnaea, 13 : 265. 1839. 



Hemsley, Biol. Cent. Am. 1 : 375; Dietr. Syn. PL 3 : 177 ; Walp, Eep. 2 : 25. 



Fragaria vesca Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, 282. Not L. 



Bootstock very short, crowned by a few leaves and a solitarj^ scape. Leaves rather thin, soon 

 glabrate above, silky beneath ; petioles about 5 dm. long, slender, silky with spreading or reflexed 

 hairs ; leaflets obloug-ob ovate or cuneate, coarsely serrate, 2-3 cm. long, the lateral ones oblique at the 

 base, but less so than in F. Californica. Runners long and slender. Scape generally about 5 cm. high, 

 seldom over 10 cm. high, with spreading silky hairs, slender and l-d-flowered. Flowers seldom over 

 1 cm. in diameter. Sepals and bractlets lanceolate and silky, as also the hypanthium. Petals obovate, 

 a little exceeding the sepals. Fruit sub-hemispheric, .75-1 cm. in diameter; achenes superficial. 



J*". 2Iexicana is most nearly related to F. Californica, from which it only differs in the smaller size, 

 the narrower leaflets, the fewer leaves and the solitary scape. It much resembles the European F. 

 collina from which it is easily distinguished by the spreading, not connivent fruiting sepals. If not in 

 fruit it may be confounded with the qviite similar F. jiumila ; it differs, however, in the more slender 

 scape and petioles and their spreading pubescence. It is a native of Mexico. 



Mexico: F. Miiller, Nos. 1355 and 1544, 1853 ; Dr. J. Gregg, No. 696, 1849 ; C. G. Pringle, No. 

 4160, 1892 ; Edw. Palmer; *Seemann, No. 2178; *Liebman ; * Coulter, No. 94 ; *Schiede ; *Ehren- 

 berg; Edw. Palmer, No. 313. 1885 ; No. 326, 1880 ; E. W. Nelson, No. 197, 1894. 



Lower California : T. S. Brandegee, No. 203. 1890. 



6. Fragaria vesca L. 



Fragaria vesca L. Sp. PI. 494. 1753. 



L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2: 708. Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 211 ; Willd. Sp. PL 2: 8090; Persoon, 

 Syn. PL 2 : 53 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 3 : 271 ; Spreng. Syst. 2 : 533 ; Seringe in 

 DC. Prod. 2 : 569 ; Don, Gard. Diet. 2 : 542 ; Dietr. Syn. PL 3 : 176. Spach, Hist 

 Nat. 1: 465; Vilmorin, Jard. Fruit. Mus. 1, t*; Decaisne, Jard. Fruit. Mus. Frag. 27, i.* 



Eat. Man. Ed. 2, 249; Ed. 3, 282; Ed. 5, 220; Ed. 6, 148; Ed. 7, 306; Beck, Bot. 

 105 ; Ed. 2, 98 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1: 448; Eat. & Wright, N. A. Bot. 246; Gray, 



