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IN your issue for April 30 (vol. xxxi. p. 601) is an account of a quinquefoliate strawberry. In the garden of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva we have some second year seedling strawberries, some of which are bearing three, four, and five leaflets on the same plant, the leaves all large and Perfect. We have other plants in which the two extra leaves are borne half way down the petiole, and which attain fair size, and yet others where these stipulary-like appendages are reduced to hair-like bracts. The variety of strawberry introduced under the name “Mrs. Garfield” frequently has these bract-like appendages. While speaking of the strawberry, I would remark that seedling strawberries very frequently are unifoliate during their early growth, and it appears as if Duchesne's Fragaria monophylla may be regarded as an instance of arrested development in one of these one-leaved younglings.
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STURTEVANT, E. A Quinquefoliate Strawberry. Nature 32, 126 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032126b0
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