ROSE FAITILT. 



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with Cicquefoil. Lime and manure, howeyer, will work wonders in the 

 worst of soils. 



7. FEAGA'EIA, Tournef. Stkawbesky. 



\l^i\Ti.fragrojis, odorous ; in reference to its fragrant fruit.] 



Calyx, corolla, and stamens, the same as in Potentilla. Styles deeply 

 lateral. Akenes numerous, smooth, scattered on the enlarged succulent 

 or pulpy receptacle, or embedded in pits on its sur£ace. Perennial sto- 

 loniferous herbs. Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets coarsely dentate. Flowers 

 several, cymose on a scape-like peduncle ; sometimes dicecious by abor- 

 tion. 



L F. ves'ca, L. Peduncles usually longer than the leaves ; calyx of the 

 fruit reflexed ; fruit conical or hemispherical, — the akenes superficial. 

 Eatable Feagaria. English Strawberry. Garden Strawberry. 

 Fr. Le Fraisier. Germ. Die Erdbeerpflanze. Span. Fresera. 



Whole plant tiairy. Root perennial, and the leaves often green through the winter. 

 iSfeni very short — hut several slender prostrate radicating rwrin^rs, 1-2 feet long, are 

 thro^^n out from the crown of the root. Leaves mostly radical ; common petioles 3-8 or 9 

 inches long ; leojlds ovate or cuneate-obovate, plicate, 1-3 or 4 inches long. Cymes 5-12 

 or 1.5-flowered, with 2 or 3 fohaceous bracts at base, on peduncles 4 or 5 -10 or 12 inches 

 in length. Floicers sometimes abortive. Petals white. Eeceptaxle (commonly regarded 

 as the/?-Mi7) red or yellowish white, often long and slender, bearing the akenes super- 

 ficially and rather prominently on the even surface. 



Gardens : cultivated ; also indigenous. J'Z. April. J"?-. May -June. 



Fig. 83. The Strawberry flower (Fragaria vesca) with numerous stamens and pistils 

 e i. The fruit which consists of true fruits (akenes, one from each pistil) scattered over the 

 Exrface of an enlarged and pulpy receptacle. 



