Wild Strawberry

Fragaria crinita Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia '
Univ. 2 : 171. 1898.
Rootstock short and thick, but not so much so as in F. chiloensis ; leaves firm but much thinner than in that species, less veiny beneath and not reticulate, silky above when young, in age glabrate, densely silky and slightly tomentulose beneath ; petioles slender, 2-10 cm. long, covered with spreading or reflexed, long white silky hairs ; leaflets all subsessile, rhombic-obovate, the lateral oblique at the base, more sharply toothed than in F. chiloensis ', and the terminal tooth seldom much smaller than the others ; runners slender and long ; scape seldom over 1 dm. high, with spreading long silky hairs, slender, seldom with leafy bracts ; flowers 2-3 cm. in diameter; hypanthium silky; bractlets and sepals silky, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate ; petals obovate, exceeding the sepals by about a third ; fruit hemispheric, nearly 1 cm. in diameter, somewhat pubescent ; achenes in shallow pits.
Type locality : Washington .
Distribution : British Columbia to California.

Fragaria mexicana Schlecht. Linnaea 13 : 265. 1839. *-7
Rootstock very short, crowned by a few leaves and a solitary scape ; leaves rather thin, soon glabrate above, silky beneath ; petioles about 5 dm. long, slender, silky with spreading or reflexed hairs ; leaflets oblong-obovate or cuneate, coarsely serrate, 2-3 cm. long, the lateral ones oblique at the base, but less so than in F. californica; runners long and slender ; scape generally about 5 cm. high, seldom over 10 cm. high, with spreading silky hairs, slender and 1-4-rlowered ; flowers seldom over 1 cm. in diameter ; sepals and bractlets lanceolate and silky, as also the hypanthium ; petals obovate, a little exceeding the sepals; fruit subhemispheric, 0.75-1 cm. in diameter; achenes superficial.
Type locality : Jalapa, Mexico.
Distribution : Central Mexico, also apparently in I,ower California.

Fragaria bracteata Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 25 : 194. 1896
Fragaria vesca Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 184, in part. 1832. Fragaria vesca y T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 448, in part. 1840. Fragaria californica Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1 : 174, in part. 1898. Fragaria retrorsa Greene, Ottawa Nat. 18 : 216. 1905.
Rootstock very short and rather thick; leaves very thin, somewhat glaucous, silky when young, glabrate in age, especially on the upper surface; petioles slender, 3-10 cm. long, silky with long white spreading or reflexed hairs ; leaflets broadly rhombic-obovate, acute, coarsely toothed, 2-5 cm. long, the lateral ones very oblique; runners very slender, rather few ; scape often ^over 1 dm. high, often exceeding the leaves, silky with long spreading or reflexed hairs, often with a unifoliolate leafy bract, 2-8-fl.owered ; flowers 1.5-2 cm. in diameter ; sepals and bracts lanceolate, acute ; petals rounded-obovate, often nearly twice the length of the sepals; fruit somewhat elongate, ovoid or semi-ellipsoid, red, about 7.5 mm. in diameter and 10 mm. long; achenes superficial.
Type locality : Santa Fe Creek, nine miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Distribution : From British Columbia to California, New Mexico, and Montana.

Fragaria helleri Holz. Bot. Gaz. 21 : 36. 1896. " *7
Fragaria sp. Holz. Contr. IJ. S. Nat. Herb. 3 : 222. 1895.
Rootstock rather slender; leaves very thin, glabrate above, finely silky beneath; petioles, as well as scapes, very slender, sparingly silky, or glabrate in age, 5-10 cm. long; 359
leaflets rounded-obovate or rhombic-obovate, coarsely serrate, the lateral ones very oblique ; runners very slender; scape 1.5-2 dm. high, very slender, often with a foliaceous unifoliolate bract; flowers rather large, 1.5-2 cm. in diameter, on nodding pedicels; bractlets lanceolate, shorter than the ovate sepals, both acute ; petals nearly orbicular, light rosecolored, almost twice as long as the sepals ; mature fruit unknown, but achenes in the unripe ones superficial.
Type locality : [Pine Creek, near Farmington Landing, Latah County,] Idaho. Distribution : Type locality and Ol^a, Washington.