C STOPS 
XVIL- A Deicriptem of Duchesnea fri iformis, constituting a 
new Genus of the Natural Order of Senticos@ of Linneus, Rosine 
of Jussieu. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. 
Read April 3, 1810. 
Havre lately had occasion to stud y the genus Fragaria, I was 
led to consider the plant figured and described by Mr. Andrews 
in his Repository, t. 479, by the name of F. indica, which struck 
me as, in many respects, very remarkable, and probably consti- 
tuting a new genus. That it is no Fragaria is apparent from the 
fruit, which is represented like that of a Rubus. In short, the 
plant in question, with the habit of a F ‘ragaria, has the yellow 
. flower and ten-cleft calyx of a Potentilla, and the fruit of a Rubus, 
differing essentially however from the latter in its calyx, as well as 
in its habit altogether. I am enabled to bear testimony to the 
accuracy of Mr. Andrews's representation, by means of a spe- 
cimen gathered by Dr. Buchanan in Nepal, now in my posses- 
sion, accompanied with a description drawn up by that excellent 
botanist on the spot. 
In the name of this new genus I wish to commemorate the 
merits of M. Duchesne, author of the Histoire Naturelle des 
Fraisiers published at Paris in 1766, justly termed by Haller “ an 
excellent little book,” in which the varieties of Strawberries are 
so accurately described, and their synonyms so. well illustrated, 
that I cannot but wonder it did not more excite the attention of 
Linnzus,. 
