RAGARIA STERILIS. BARREN STRAWBERRY. 



FRAGARIA Lin. Gen» PL Icosandria Polygynia. 



CaL io. fidus. Petala 5. Receptaculum feminum ova- 

 turn, baccatum, deciduum. 



Rati Syn.Gen. 25. Herbje semine nudo polyspermy. 

 FRAGARIA Jierilis caule decumbente, ramis floriferis laxis. Lin. Syjt. vegetab. p. 396. Sp. PL 709. 

 FRAGARIA caule proftrato, foliis ternatis retufis fericeis. Halkr. hifi. helv. 111-2. 

 FRAGARIA Jierilis. Bauh. pin. 327. 

 FRAGARIA minime vefca. Park. 758* 

 FRAGARIA minime vefca feu flerilis, Ger. emac. 998. 



FRAGARIA non fragifera, vel non vefca. J. B. 2. 395. Rati Syn. ed. 3. p. 254. 

 Hud/on FL AngL ed. 2. p. 222. Lightfoot FL Scot. p. 288. 



RADIX perennis, nigricans, fublignofa. 

 CAULES plurimi, fpithamasi, procumbentes, crafli, 

 fufrruticofi, caftanei, ftipulis hirfutis recti. 



FOLIA e furculis annotinis prodeunt, ternata, obovata, 

 ferrata, pilofa, fericea, fubtus albida, petio- 

 lis valde pilofis. 



STIPUL^E radicales, plurimae, ovato acuminata^, mem- 



branaceae. 

 PEDUNCULI plurimi, afcendentes, teretes, pilofi, 



biflori, bra&ea trifoliata inftrucli. 



FLORES albi, parvi. 



CALYX : Perianthium monophyllum, planum, fe- 

 midecemfidum, Jig. 3, ex laciniis, quinque 

 ovato acuminata funt inter petala, petalis paulo 

 longiora, quinque lanceolata, petalis paulo 

 breviora, omnibus pilofis. Jig. 1. 



COROLLA : Petala quinque, alba, parva, fubro- 

 tunda, patentia, remota, calyci inferta. 



STAMINA : Til amenta viginta circiter, in orbem 

 pofita, fubulata, alba, primum inflexa, de- 

 mum erecta, corolla breviora ; Antherje 

 flavae, biloculares, fig. 4. 5. 



PISTILLUM: Germina numerofa, minima, in ca- 

 pitulum colle&a, fubreniformia ; Styli fim- 

 plices, lateri germinis inferti; Stigmata 

 fimplicia. fig. 7, 8, 9. 



RECEPTACULUM fioris intra germina et filamenta 

 glandulofum feu pulpofum, villofum, minia- 

 tum ; Jruftus intra germina pilofum. fig. 6. 



SEMINA plurima, exfucca, in capitulum collecta, e 

 fiavo fufca, appendiculo fubvillofo,^. io. 11. 



ROOT perennial, blackiih and woody. 



STALKS numerous, fix or feven inches in length, pro- 

 cumbent, thick, fomewhat fhrubby, of a 

 chefnut colour, and covered with hairy fti- 

 pulae. 



LEAVES grow out of the laft years moots, three to- 

 gether, inverfely oval, fawed at the edges, 

 hairy, filky, whitifh underneath, {landing on 

 footftalks which are very hairy. 



STIPULE next the root, numerous, oval and pointed, 

 of a membranous texture. 



FLOWER- STALKS numerous, afcending, round, 

 hairy, fupporting two flowers, and furnifhed 

 with a three-leav'd bractea. 



FLOWERS white and fmall 



CALYX: a Perianthium of one leaf, flat, divided 

 half way down into ten fegments, Jig. 3. of 

 thofe, five which are betwixt the petals are 

 oval, with a long point, fomewhat longer 

 than the petals fig. 1. five lanceolate, a little 

 morter than the petals, and all of them hairy. 



fig- l- 



COROLLA : five, white, fmall, roundifh, fpreading 

 Petals, remote from each other, and fixed 

 to the calyx, fig. 2. 



STAMINA : about twenty Filaments, placed in a 

 circle, tapering, white, at firft bending in- 

 wards, afterwards upright, morter than the 

 corolla; Anthers yellow, having two cavi- 

 ties, fig. 4. 5. 



PISTILLUM: Germina numerous, minute, forming 

 a little head, fomewhat kidney- (haped ; 

 Styles fimple, inferted into the fide of the 

 germen; Stigmata fimple, fig. 7, 8, 9. 



RECEPTACLE of the fiower betwixt the germina 

 and filaments glandular or pulpy, villous and 

 of a fcarlet colour, of the Jruit betwixt the 

 germina hairy, fig. 6. 



SEEDS numerous, pulplefs, forming a little head, of 

 a yellowifh brown colour, with an appen- 

 dage to each fomewhat villous, fig. 10. 11. 



THE name of Sterilis by which this fpecies of Strawbery is diitinguifhed, has not been given it becaufe 

 the plant does not produce perfect feed, but becaufe it affords no eatable fruit ; its leaves point it out as a Straw- 

 berry, but its fructification has a greater affinity with the Potentilla, betwixt which genus and the Strawberry 

 this plant indeed feems to be the link. 



In all the woods about London, as alfo on fome heaths, we find it in bloflbm as early as March, and in June 

 \% ripens its feed. 



