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4-23-31 Potentilla Fragariostrum Fitch (Same
as 4-15-31 which see) Fl. glion. Plant in dense
clumps from one root which sends up many
stems clothed with leaves, which bear the slender flower-
ing branches in axils. Some of these at any
later be creeping but no real runners not evi-
dent. Petals pure white, emarginate v more def.
cuneate at base than Fragaria. --. Stamens
with slender filaments hardly enlarged at base
v anthers opening so that pollen covered surface
faces inward. Receptacle pubescent, not scabrous.
Style pale green slender 2mm long. Flo 10 mm dia.
leaves smaller than Fragaria, yellowish green, with
net veins showing more distinctly beneath.
4-23-31 Fragaria
Fl. glion Cfd with above. Plant not in dense tuft.
Lower 1-2 in from start v clothed dead remains of
olde v runner, this year's two v flowering stems
all proceeding from its top. Old runners numerous
slender, to 2 ft long sometimes branched.
Petals somewhat less purely white than above
(partly perhaps because a light veining which
makes them less smooth), rounded v cuneate at
apex and rounder at base (i.e. much more
nearly circular in outline. Filaments def.
larger at base than at apex. Anthers flat-