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carpeh many, i-ovuled ; slyks lateral, persistent ; fruit an etasrio of 

 achenes which are sunk in the surface of a fleshy receptacle. 

 (Name from the Latin /nz^a, strawberries, which is probably con- 

 nected \i\\.\\ frag^rans, fragrant.) 



I. F. vcsca (Wood Strawberry). — Leajli'ls sessile, bright green, 

 hairy ; peduncle erect, few-flowered, with spreading hairs ; pedicels 

 drooping in fruit, with adpressed hairs ; Jlcnvei's white, \ 

 in. or more across ; calvx reflexed in fruit. — \Voods and thickets ; 

 common. A well-known plant, distinguished by the above 

 characters from the Barren Strawberry (PotentiUa Fraf^aridstrum)^ 

 which is often .mistaken for it by young : botantists. The Stra\v- 



■kAG.VRlA VliSCA (U'^vJ Stf\ 



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berry apparently derives its name from the custom of laying straw 

 b3tweeii the rows of jilants in gardens. — Fl. April — July. 

 I'erennial. 



2.* F. mosclidta (Hautboy Strawberry), a garden escape, 

 probably originally derived by cultivation from the preceding, is 

 larger, more hairy, with spreading hairs* and lias stalked leaflets 

 and some dicecious flowers. — Fl. June — 'September. Perennial. 



7. PoTENTiLLA (Qnquefoil). — Herbs', rarely shrubby ; leaves 

 p'nnate or palmate of 3, 5, or more leaflets ; stipules adnate to the 

 petiole ; flcnvers generally yellow or wh;te ; sepals 5, or rarely 4, 



