. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. Crataegus, Red haw. simple, usually lobed leaves and white or pink flowers, in corymbs. Inferior ovaries, and small pomes of various colors. C. coccinea, Red Haw. Shrubs or small trees with stout spines, 3 to s cm. long. Peti- oles long, slender; blades broadly ovate to or- bicular, rough, pubescent, pointed at apex, sharply cut and serrate; fruit usually pubes- cent, yellowish-green, becoming dark reddish- brown. Thickets. April, May. FRAGARIA Stemless shrubs with runners. Leaves with three wedge-shaped leaflets and clus- ters of white flowers on nak
. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. Crataegus, Red haw. simple, usually lobed leaves and white or pink flowers, in corymbs. Inferior ovaries, and small pomes of various colors. C. coccinea, Red Haw. Shrubs or small trees with stout spines, 3 to s cm. long. Peti- oles long, slender; blades broadly ovate to or- bicular, rough, pubescent, pointed at apex, sharply cut and serrate; fruit usually pubes- cent, yellowish-green, becoming dark reddish- brown. Thickets. April, May. FRAGARIA Stemless shrubs with runners. Leaves with three wedge-shaped leaflets and clus- ters of white flowers on naked stems. Fruit the pulpy scarlet receptacle bearing minute achenes. scattered over its surface. F. virginiana. Wild Strawberry. Flower cluster with a flattish top, calyx lobes tending to be connivent about the young fruit; achenes in pits and the pulpy receptacles. Moist rich woods and fields. April to ^ j/i^l]^ June. F. vesca americana, Wild Straw- berry. Flower cluster soon regular and becoming raCeme-like; calyx lobes loosely spreading or reflex, early exposing the fruit; achenes superficial or nearly so on the receptacle. Rocky woods. May, June. POTENTILLA. Fragaria virginiana. Wild strawberry. Shrubs with compound leaves. Flowers solitary or in clusters, with numerous stamens and carpels, collected in a head on the dry receptacle. P. monspeliensis norvegica. Rough Cinquefoil. Stout, erect, hir- sute, reaching 9 dm. in height; leaflets 3, oblong; those of the upper- most 3 to s toothed near the end. Flowers small with yellow petals and S to 20 stamens. Open ground. May to August. P. argentea. Silvery Cinquefoil. Stems ascending, reaching 5 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cowles, Henry Chandler, 1869-1939; Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. joint author. New York, Cincinnati [
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