An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Gen-us lo. ROSE FAMILY. 259 10. DUCHESNEA J. E. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 372. 1811. Perennial herbs, with trailing branches often rooting at the nodes (leafy runners), 3-foIiolate long-petioled leaves and axillary slender-peduncled yellow perfect flowers. 5-parted, 5-bracteolatc, the bractlets larger than
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Gen-us lo. ROSE FAMILY. 259 10. DUCHESNEA J. E. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 372. 1811. Perennial herbs, with trailing branches often rooting at the nodes (leafy runners), 3-foIiolate long-petioled leaves and axillary slender-peduncled yellow perfect flowers. 5-parted, 5-bracteolatc, the bractlets larger than the and alternating with them, dentate or incised, often regarded like those in Fragaria and Foteiitilla as an exterior calyx. Petals 5, obovate. Stamens numerous. Pistils numerous, borne on a hemispheric receptacle which greatly enlarges but does not become pulpy in fruit. Achenes superlicial on the receptacle. [In honor of A. N. Duchesne, French botanist.] Two species, natives of southern Asia, the following typical. Duchesnea indica (Andr.) Focke. Mock or Indian Strawberry. Fig. 22 Fragaria indica .\ndr. Bot. Rep. />/. ^79. 1807. D. indica Focke. in Engl. &; Prantl, Xat. PfJ. Fam. 3' 33- IS Silky-pubescent, tufted and forming leafy runners, dark green. Leaflets obovate or broadly oval, rather thin, crenate or dentate, obtuse at the apex, rounded or nar- rowed at the base, the terminal one generally cnneate; peduncles equalling or longer than the leaves; flowers 6'- 12' broad; bractlets of the calyx dentate or incised, ex- ceeding the ovate or lanceolate acuminate spreading calyx- lobes; fruit red, ovoid or globose, insipid. In waste places, southern Xew York and Pennsylvania to Florida and Missouri. Also in California, Bermuda and Jamaica. Naturalized or adventive from India. April-July. II. FRAGARIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI: 494. 1753. Perennial acaulescent herbs propagating by runners, with alternate basal tufted petioled 3-foliolate leaves, and sheathing mem
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