ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 
There are a good many kinds of Strawberry, natives of 
the north temperate zone and the Andes. They are 
perennials, with running stems, rooting at the joints; the 
flowers white, or rarely pink, with slender, often drooping 
pedicels, forming loose clusters; the flower-stalks springing 
from tufts of root-leaves, which have three, toothed leaflets 
and a pair of sheathing stipules at the base of the long leaf- 
stalk; the sepals five, alternating with sepal-like bractlets; 
the petals five, with short claws and not notched; the 
stamens numerous, with slender filaments; the receptacle 
roundish or cone-shaped, becoming enlarged, red and 
juicy, in fruit, bearing minute, dry akenes, scattered over 
its surface, or set in pits. bie 3s is the Latin name for 
strawberry, meaning “fragrant.” 
Woad Suinaeny A slender little plant, growing in light 
Fragaria bracteata Shade, in rich soil, along streams, in rocky 
White woods and producing runners very freely. 
Spring, summer The stipules are papery and reddish, the 
Wes thin, dull-green leaves are slightly silky on 
the upper side, when young, and the leaflets are sharply 
and coarsely toothed, somewhat wedge-shaped, broad at 
the tips, the two side ones uneven at base. ‘There is 
usually a little bract, halfway up, on both the flower-stalk 
and the leaf-stalk. The flowers are nearly an inch across, 
with fuzzy, bright yellow centers, and the fruit is light red, 
with a good flavor, somewhat cone-shaped, the akenes 
scattered over its smooth, shining, even surface and but 
slightly attached to it. 
anu Siva berry A charming plant, a few inches tall, 
SEAN with thick, glossy, dark green leaves, 
Chiloénsis paler and hairy on the under side, and 
White pure-white flowers, with bright yellow 
Spring, summer 
centers. They are about an inch across 
Wash., Oreg., Cal. - y 
and are well set off by the masses of dark 
foliage. This has large, delicious berries and grows 
abundantly on beaches and sand dunes near the sea, from 
San Francisco to Alaska. It is often cultivated. 
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