ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Fragaria. 413 



thing I have said to the contrary in the generic character. Yet 

 there may be 2 kernels in one testa, as well as 2 yolks, by acci- 

 dent, in one egg. 



2o(). FRAGARIA. Strawbeny. 



Linn. Gen. 255. Juss. 338. Fl. Br. 5 46. Sni. in Rees's Cijd. v. 1 5. 

 Tourn. t. 152. Lam. ^ 442. Gcertn. t.73. 



Nat. Ord. see 7i. 254. 



Ca/. inferior, of 1 leaf, flat, permanent; limb in 10 deep 

 segments, 5 alternate ones external and smallest. Pel. 

 .5, roundish, spreading, attached to the rim of the calyx 

 by their short claws, opposite to its outer segments. i'V- 

 lam. 20, IVom the rim of the calyx, a\vl-shaj)ed, erect, 

 shorter than the corolla, permanent. A?it/i» roundish, 

 incumbent, of 2 cells, deciduous. Gcrmcns su})erior, nu- 

 merous, roundish, small, collected into a round head. 

 Stijlcs 1 to each germen, lateral, short, incurved, })er- 

 manent. .S7/*if//zr/5 simple, obtuse. Z?rr;7 spurious, formed 

 of the enlarged receptacle of the seech^ become pul])y, co- 

 loured, ovate or roundish, abrupt at the base, finally de- 

 ciduous. Seeds numerous, nakeil, scattered over the 

 surface of the berry, roundish-ovate, acute, smooth and 

 even. 



ILtIs more or less hairy, Avith trailing rnmiers, and short 

 erect flowering stems. Leaves ternate, rarely simple, 

 strongly serrated, somewhat plaited. Stipulas in pairs 

 unitecl to the base of each footstalk. Fl. impeifectly pa- 

 nicled, white. Fruit red, varying to a yellowish white, 

 fragrant and delicious; to most })eople very wholesi)me; 

 to some few an ab.s^)lute poison. The word mostly sliouKI 

 be ex])unged from the second line ofy^ 3.73. 



Dr. Nestler of Strasburgh, a recent writer of great merit, 

 has, in a Monograph on Potentilla^ a})plied the name of 

 hracteas to the 5 outer segments of the calijx^ in the.se 

 genera and their alHes. Mr. Seringue, and the jiresent 

 Mr. llaller, have done the same. Ihit /^;r/r/<Y/.v U'h>ng 

 properly to tlie injlorescence^ not to the fructifi'catiov ; 

 and these outer segments diU'er in no I'espect Irom tlie 

 inner, except a more leafy texture, in which they exactly 

 agree with the leajlets^ or piuruCy of the cali/.v-.^([^ments 

 in Nosa, which it would be absurd to call bracfeas^ ;uid 

 which actually prove the parts in (|uestion not to he such. 

 Dr. Nestler moreovt r follows several recent botanists of 

 high rank in ilenominating du- .^wv/.s of tlK-.r pl:uU^ 



