8. G. radiàtum, Michx. Hirsutely hairy or smoothish; _root-leaves rounded-kidney-shaped_, radiate-veined (2--5´ broad), doubly or irregularly cut-toothed and obscurely 5--7-lobed, also a set of minute leaflets down the long petiole; stems (8--18´ high) 1--5-flowered; _bractlets minute; petals yellow, round-obovate_ and more or less obcordate, exceeding the calyx (½´ long), _spreading; styles naked_ except the base. (High mountains of N. C.) Var. Péckii, Gray. Nearly glabrous, or the stalks and veins of the leaves sparsely hirsute.--Alpine tops of the White Mts. * * * * * DRYAS OCTOPETALA, L., a dwarf matted slightly shrubby plant, with simple toothed leaves and large white solitary flowers, has the characters of this section excepting its 8--9-parted calyx and 8 or 9 petals. It was said by Pursh to have been found on the White Mountains, N. H., ninety years ago, but it is not known to have been seen there since. 8. WALDSTEÌNIA, Willd. Calyx-tube inversely conical; the limb 5-cleft, with 5 often minute and deciduous bractlets. Petals 5. Stamens many, inserted into the throat of the calyx. Achenes 2--6, minutely hairy; the terminal slender styles deciduous from the base by a joint. Seed erect; radicle inferior.--Low perennial herbs, with chiefly radical 3--5-lobed or divided leaves, and small yellow flowers on bracted scapes. (Named in honor of _Francis von Waldstein_, a German botanist.) 1. W. fragarioìdes, Tratt. (BARREN STRAWBERRY.) Low; leaflets 3, broadly wedge-form, cut-toothed, scapes several-flowered; petals longer than the calyx.--Wooded hillsides, N. Eng. to Ga., west to Ind., Mich., and Minn. 9. FRAGÀRIA, Tourn. STRAWBERRY. Flowers nearly as in Potentilla. Styles deeply lateral. Receptacle in fruit much enlarged and conical, becoming pulpy and scarlet, bearing the minute dry achenes scattered over its surface.--Stemless perennials, with runners, and with white cymose flowers on scapes. Leaves radical; leaflets 3, obovate-wedge-form, coarsely serrate, stipules cohering with the base of the petioles, which with the scapes are usually hairy. (Name from the fragrance of the fruit.)--Flowering in spring. (The species are indiscriminately called WILD STRAWBERRY.) 1. F. Virginiàna, Mill. _Achenes imbedded in the deeply pitted fruiting receptacle_, which usually has a narrow neck, calyx becoming erect after flowering and connivent over the hairy receptacle when sterile or unfructified; _leaflets of a firm or coriaceous texture; the hairs of the scapes_, and especially of the _pedicels, silky and appressed_.--Moist or rich woodlands, fields, etc.; common. Var. Illinoénsis, Gray, is a coarser or larger plant, with flowers more inclined to be polygamo-diœcious, and the _villous hairs of the scape and pedicels widely spreading_.--Rich soil, western N. Y. to Minn., and westward.