Fragaria.] rosace^e. 153 



tipped with a minute style, inserted on a large spongy permanent 

 receptacle. 



1. C. palustre, L. Purple Marsh Cinquefoil. Br. Fl. p. 123. 

 E. B. t. 173. Potentilla Comarum, Nestl. 



In spongy turfy or peaty bogs and swampy meadows, in marsh-ditches and 

 drains; not uncommon, but rather local, i^^. May, June. Fr. July. 2f.. 



E. Med. — In the boggy moors or meadows between Rookley and Northground 

 farms, in several places abundantly. Boggy pasture between Saynham and Dews 

 Place. Plentiful in various parts of Sandown level, and on the adjacent marshy 

 skirts of Lake common. 



W. Med. — Abundant in boggy meadows in the valley of the Medina, about 

 Cridmore &c. Marsh near Easton, in plenty, Mr. Snooke .'.'.' 



A beautiful plant, by some authors referred lo Potentilla, from which, indeed, 

 as well as from Fragaria, it scarcely differs, except in the spongy, not dry or fleshy 

 receptacle, and is as it were an intermediate genus. Root reddish brown, very 

 long, creeping and extremely tough. Stem a foot or two in length, round, hairy, 

 procumbent, creeping and rooting at the joints, at length ascending, branched, 

 reddish, and like the root very tough. Lower leaves on sheathing petioles, of 6 or 

 7 ovate or lanceolate, deeply and sharply serrated leaflets, smooth above, pale 

 and downy beneath ; upper leaves sessile, ternate or quinate, with a pair of ovate 

 stipules. Floivers solitary or 2 — 5 together, purplish brown, handsome but with- 

 out scent. Sepals very unequal, the smaller alternate outer ones strongly 

 deflexed. Petals small, much shorter than the calyx, ovate, with a reflexed 

 point. Anthers oval, erect, flat, dark purple, like ihe Jtlaments, bursting along their 

 thin outer edges, deciduous. Receptacle conical, hairy. Styles purple, inserted 

 laterally on the small oval nuts or seeds, which are quite smooth, purplish, 

 slightly attached to, not imbedded in, the spongy very dry receptacle. Fruit 

 erect, much like a moderate-sized strawberry in appearance, but not eatable, more 

 or less completely covered by the dry, persistent, connivent sepals. Seeds (nuts) 

 very numerous and crowded, dark red above, yellowish white below, compresso- 

 globose, with an oblique obtuse apex, slightly attached to, but not at all imbed- 

 ded in the substance of the roundish ovate or oblong, dry, spongy and tomentose 

 receptacle. 



IX. Fragaria, Linn. Strawberry. 



" Calyx 10-cleft, segments alternately smaller. Petals 6. Sta- 

 mens many. Achenes many, minute, tipped with a short style, 

 placed upon a large fleshy deciduous receptacle.'^ — Br. Fl. 



1. F. vesca, L. Common Wood Strawberry. " Calyx of the 

 fruit spreading or reflexed, hairs of the peduncles widely spread- 

 ing, those of the pedicels erect or close-pressed silky." — Br. Fl. 

 p. 121. E. B. t. 1534, and Sitppl. t. 3742. 



In woods, groves, on shady banks, pastures, and along hedgerows ; common. 

 Fl. May— July. Fr. June. 2^. 



Fruit drooping, small, round, bright scarlet, subtended by the spreading or 

 partly reflexed calyx. Seeds (achenia) numerous, deep red, smooth and shining, 

 very prominent on the shallow pitted receptacle. 



