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1. Comarum palustre L. Purple Marshlocks. Plants 1-1^ 
ft. high; leaves pinnate, 5-7-foliate; leaflets oblong or oblanceolate, 
sharply serrate above the middle, narrowing at the base K~3 in. 
long; stipules large, usually membranous; flowers large, in¬ 
broad, purple. Lorain, Summit, Ashland, Portage, Licking, 
Stark, Ashtabula. 
6. Drymocallis. 
Erect herbs with more or less glandular or viscid stems and 
pinnate leaves; calyx 5-practeolate; sepals and petals 5; stamens 
20-30 in number in 5 festoons on a thick glandular disk; style 
nearly basal. 
1. Drymocallis agrimonioides (Pursh) Rvdb. Tall Cinque¬ 
foil. Erect, stout herb, 1-3 ft. high; leaflets oval or ovate, sharply 
incised-serrate, terminal one cuneate, the others rounded at the 
base; flowers white, cymose. Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake. 
7. Waldsteinia. 
Perennial herbs resembling strawberries, with 3-parted leaves 
and yellow corymbose flowers; sepals, petals and bractlets 5; 
stamens many, inserted on the throat of the hypanthium; carpels 
usually 2-6 on a short, villous receptacle, style deciduous, 
terminal. 
1. Waldsteinia fragarioides (Mx.) Tratt. Dry Strawberry. 
Low herb with creeping rootstalk; leaflets obovate. broadly 
cuneate, crenate, sometimes incised, J /2~\ 14 in. long; flowers 
yellow, f-f in. broad. Cuyahoga, Clarke, Franklin, Ashtabula, 
Greene, Medina, Portage. 
8. Fragaria. Strawberry. 
Perennial herbs with runners, three-parted leaves, and mem¬ 
branous sheathing stipules; flowers white, corymbose or racemose, 
pedicels often recurved; calyx 5-bracteolate; petals 5; stamens 
many; carpels indefinite; leaflets obovate, cuneate, serrate; fruit 
consisting of a fleshy receptacle in which are inserted the aehenes, 
seed ascending, amphitropous. 
1. Aehenes in pits of the pulpy receptacle; inflorescence umhelliform or 
a flattish topped cyme, with subequal primary branches; sepals 
lanceolate, appressed about the fruit; hairs spreading or sub-appressed 
on scape and petiole. F. virginiana. (3). 
1. Aehenes superficial; inflorescence irregular, the primary tranches of 
the cyme being distinctly unequal; sepals loosely spreading cr reflexed, 
shorter than the early exposed fruit; hairs appressed on the petiole, 
spreading on the scape. 2. 
2. Plants slender; fruit conical or subcylindric-ovoid. red. F.americana. (1). 
2. Plants stoutish; fruit ovoid-ccnic or sutglobose, white in our form. 
F. vesca. (2). 
