. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. FRAUARIA FBAGARIA (Latin fmgrare, frai;rance, from the smell o£ the fruit). Sosdcea. Strawberry. A small genus of low perennial herbs in the north temperate zone and along the American Cordilleran region. The Ivs. are palma'tely 3-foliolate and toothed, all from the crown of the plant: fls. white or yellow, in
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. FRAUARIA FBAGARIA (Latin fmgrare, frai;rance, from the smell o£ the fruit). Sosdcea. Strawberry. A small genus of low perennial herbs in the north temperate zone and along the American Cordilleran region. The Ivs. are palma'tely 3-foliolate and toothed, all from the crown of the plant: fls. white or yellow, in corymbose racemes on slender, leafless scapes, sometimes lacking stamens ; calyx deeply 5-lobed and reinforced by 5 sepal-like bracts ; petals 5, obovate ; stamens many, short; pistils many, on a conical receptacle, becoming small and hard akenes and persisfiiii; the enlarging receptacle. The enlarged r |ii i. !^ i . ^ pulpy and edible in the Strawberry, ui 1 i r. but it re- mains small in Duchesnt-:.. ~ I '-. S27. Fra- garias propagate naturally I'V liimers. The Pragarias are exceedingly , About 130 specific names have been applied to them, but there are probably not more than a dozen forms which are dis- tinct enough to be clearly distinguished as species. Bentham and Hooker would reduce them all to three or four species. Of the true Fragarias, four species-types FRAGRANT I3ALM 605 white below, blunt-toothed : forking and long-rayed, the peduncle short, soon lopping on the ground: runners mostly appearing after the fruit is gone: berry large and firm, dark-colored, more or less musky in flavor, reinforced by a very large calyx or hull. Pacific coast region of S. Amer. A common wild Strawberry of the Pacific slope of N. Amer. is referred to this species, but it is a question whether it is identi- cal with the S. American form. Var. ananissa, Hort. (F. anandssa, F. tlncta, F. calyculAta, Duchesne. F. grandiflbra, Ehrh.). Pine Stkawberby.
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