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 Genus ROSE FAMILY. 5. Fragaria americana (Porter) Brit- ton. American Wood Strawberry. Fig. 2250. Fragaria vesca var. americana Porter, Bull. Torr. Club 17: 15. 1890. Fragaria americana Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 19 : 2i2. 1892. Slender, light green, loosely villoiis-pubes- cent or glabrate, usually producing runners
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 Genus ROSE FAMILY. 5. Fragaria americana (Porter) Brit- ton. American Wood Strawberry. Fig. 2250. Fragaria vesca var. americana Porter, Bull. Torr. Club 17: 15. 1890. Fragaria americana Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 19 : 2i2. 1892. Slender, light green, loosely villoiis-pubes- cent or glabrate, usually producing runners more freely than any of the preceding species. Leaflets thin, ovate or oval, obtuse or acute at the apex, sharply incised-dentate, the ter- minal one commonly cuneate, the others in- equilateral at the base, pubescent with silvery appressed hairs beneath; flowers smaller than in F. vesca; calyx-lobes spreading or reflexed in fruit; fruit ovoid or elongated-conic, light red or pink, the achenes borne on its glabrous shining even surface and but slightly attached to it. In rocky woods, Newfoundland to Manitoba, Virginia and New Mexico. May-June. 12. SIBBALDIA L. Sp. PI. 284. 1753. Depressed alpine or arctic shrubby plants, with alternate mainly 3-folioIate stipulate leaves, and cymose flowers on scape-like nearly leafless peduncles. Calyx slightly concave, S-Iobed, S-bracteolate, persistent. Petals 5, oblong or oval, much smaller than the calyx-lobes, yellow. Stamens 5, opposite the calyx-lobes, inserted on the margin of the villous-pubescent disk. Carpels 5-10, on short pubescent stipes; style lateral. Achenes S-io, glabrous. [Named in honor of Robt. Sibbald, a Scotch naturalist.] About 5 species, natives of the colder parts of the north temperate zone. The following typical one is the only known American species. I. Sibbaldia procumbens L. Sibbaldia. Fig. 2257. Sibbaldia procumbens L. Sp. PI. 284. 1753. Potentilla procumbens Clairv, Man. Herb. Suisse 166. 1811. Densely tufte
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