Virginia Strawberry

Fragaria platypetala Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia
Univ. 2 : 177. 1898.
Fragaria virginiana illinoensis S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 177. 1876. Fragaria californica Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1 : 174, in part. 1898. Fragaria latiuscula Greene, Ottawa Nat. 18 : 216. 1905.
Rootstock very thick and woody, generally bearing several flowering stems ; leaves moderately thick, glabrous and glaucous above and appressed-silky beneath ; petioles 2-20 cm. long, silkyvillous with long spreading or reflexed hairs, moderately stout or rather slender ; leaflets broadly cuneate or obovate, 2-8 cm. long, coarsely serrate or crenate above the middle, nearly always evidently petiolulate, the lateral ones only a little oblique ; runners comparatively stout, long ; scape comparatively stout, but much less so than in F, virginiana, generally about 1 dm., seldom 2 cm., high, sometimes only a few centimeters, rarely exceeding the leaves, rather many-flowered, often leafy-bracteate, silkyvillous with long spreading or reflexed hairs ; flowers large, 1.5-2.5 cm. in diameter ; sepals and bractlets lanceolate ; petals almost orbicular, usually twice as long as the sepals ; fruit hemispheric, 1-1.5 cm. in diameter; achenes set in rather shallow pits.
Type locality : Not indicated in the original description, but the type in the herbarium of Columbia University was collected at Spout, British Columbia, in 1890, John Macoun. Distribution : From Alaska to California, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana.

Fragaria sibbaldifolia Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia
Univ. 2 : 176. 1898.
Fragaria vesca Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4 : 95. 1893. Not F. vesca L> 1753.
Rootstock short and thick, nearly erect; leaves thin, glabrate above, silky beneath; stipules ovate, scarious ; petioles 2-5 cm. long, slightly silky with spreading hairs ; terminal leaflet broadly obovate, truncate, coarsely 3-7-toothed at the apex, 1-2 cm. long; lateral ones somewhat smaller, oblique at the base; runners long and slender, rather numerous ; scape short, few-flowered, with rather scanty spreading silky hairs ; sepals and bractlets broadly lanceolate, acute, otherwise resembling those of F. truncata ; fruit unknown.
Type locality : Near Mt. Whitney, along the branches of Kern River, California. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.

Fragaria suksdorfii Rydberg, sp. nov
Rootstock very thick and woody ; leaves moderately thick, green and glabrate above, at first densely silky beneath, in age less densely so and decidedly glaucous ; petioles 3-7 cm. long, silky with spreading hairs ; leaflets short-petiolulate, elliptic-oblanceolate, 3-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, crenate above the middle with rounded-ovate teeth ; scape 1-1.5 dm. high, furnished, as well as the pedicels, with spreading silky hairs ; flowers about 1.5 cm. in diameter; hypanthium and calyx rather densely silky ; bractlets lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, about equaling the ovate short-acuminate sepals ; petals broadly oval, about 8 mm. long ; fruit subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter, villous ; achenes in very shallow pits.
Type collected on dry grounds in open woods, Falcon Valley, Washington, in 1883, Suksdorf 486 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Washington and Oregon.

Fragaria truncata Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia
Univ. 2 : 177. 1898.
Rootstock short and thick; leaves rather few, thin, silky on both sides, but in age glabrate above; stipules oblong or ovate, brown, scarious ; petioles slender, 2-8 cm. long, sparingly silky with long spreading hairs; leaflets petiolulate, 1.5-4 cm. long, roundedobovate, round-crenate above the middle, with the middle tooth smaller, the lateral leaflets very little oblique ; scape slender, few-flowered, seldom exceeding 1 dm. in height, and rarely leafy-bracteate, sparingly silky with spreading hairs ; flowers 1-2 cm. in diameter; hypanthium, bractlets, and sepals sparingly and finely silky ; bractlets and sepals elliptic or ovate, obtuse or acutish ; petals obovate, exceeding the sepals by about a third ; achenes in pits.
Type locality : Nevada County, California.
Distribution : Sierra Nevada of California and mountains of Nevada and Idaho.