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Fragaria monophylla. One-Leaved Straw- 
berry, or Strawberry of Versailles. 
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C/^/jr <s;/i Order. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Generic Char aider. 
Calyx 10-fidus. Petala 5. Receptaculum feminum ovatum, 
baccatum. deciduum. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
FRAGARIA woK^^/Z^foliislimplicibus. Linn. Syfi. Veg.p. 476. 
Le Fraifier de Verfailles. Duchefne Hifi. nat. des Frais > p. 124. 
The firft mention made of this Strawberry, we find in 
Due hesne’s Hifioire naturelle des Fraifiers , where we have its 
complete hiftory, and from which we learn, that it was 
originally railed by him at Verfailles, in the Year 1761, 
from feeds of the Wood Strawberry. 
From France this plant has been conveyed to mod parts of 
Europe ; how it has happened we know not, but it is certainly 
very little known in this country : in the 14th edit, of the SyJL 
Veg. of Linn.-eus, it appears as a fpecies under the name of 
monophylla , originally impofedon it by Duchesn e ; Linnaeus, 
however, has his doubts as to its being a fpecies diftinft from 
the vejca t and, in our humble opinion, not without reafon; 
for it can certainly be regarded as a very Angular variety only; 
its origin indeed is a proof of this ; in addition to which we 
may obferve, that plants railed from the runners will fome- 
times, though very rarely indeed, have three leaves inftead 
of one : and it is obferved by the very intelligent author of 
the Hifi. nat. above mentioned, that feedling plants fometimes 
produced leaves with three divifions, like thofe of the Wood 
Strawberry. Befides the remarkable difference in the number 
of the leaves in this plant, the leaves themfelves are obferved 
to be much fmaller in the winter feafon, and their ribs lefs 
branched ; the runners alfo are flenderer and more produflive, 
and the fruit in general more oblong or pyramidal. As an 
objefl of curiofity, this plant is deferving a place in every 
garden of any extent; nor is its Angularity its only recom- 
mendation, its fruit being equal to that of the fineft Wood 
Strawberry, with which it agrees in the time of its flowering, 
fruiting, and mode of treatment. 
