108 ROSACEA. 



genous, although I formerly felt somewhat doubtful on the 

 matter. 

 First record : Briggs, 1865, in Jour. Bot. iii. 



[COMARUM, L.] 



227. [C. palustre, L. Marsh Cinquefoil. 



Native ; almost certainly now extinct, 

 c. 11. Near the Weir Head ; Banks, Fl. part 8, 1830. Probably on 

 the Cornwall side of the Tamar, 

 No subsequent record.] 



FEAGARIA, L. 



228. F. vesca, L. Wild Strawberry ; ^ Hedge Strawberry.' 



Native ; in woods and on banks. Very common. March to 

 June, and scattered flowers later. Area general. 



Extends over the enclosed and wooded country. Some of the older 

 British writers on plants mention an extraordinary monstrosity of this 

 species, under the name of the 'Plymouth strawberry.' Dr. Masters, m 

 his Vegetable Teratology, when treating of chloranthy, says in a note : 

 "As considerable interest attaches to the 'Plymouth strawberry,' and 

 very little is known of it in this country, or on the Continent, the author 

 gladly avails himself of this opportunity of inserting an account of it, 

 for which he is indebted to the kindness of Dr. Robert Hogg : ' The 

 Plymouth strawberry {F. vesca fructu hisjndo) is a sort of botanical 

 dodo upon which many have written, and wliich few have seen. JMany 

 years have elapsed since it was first discovered ; and although a century 

 and a half have passed since there was any evidence of its existence, it 

 serves still as an illustration for students in morphology of one of those 

 strange abnormal structures v>ith Avhich the vegetable kingdom abounds. 



" ' It is to old John Tradescant we are mdebted for the earliest record 

 of this plant. Johnson m his edition of Gerarde says : " Mr. John 

 Ti'adescant hath told me that he was the first that took notice of this 

 Strawberry, and that m a woman's garden at Plimoth, whose daughter 

 had gathered and set the roots in her garden instead of the common 

 strawberry : but she finding the fruit not to answer her expectation in- 

 tended to throw it away : which labor he spared her, in taking it and 

 bestowing it among the lovers of such varieties, in whose gardens it is yet 

 preserved." John. Ger. p. 998. Doubtless one of those 'lovers' was 

 John Parkinson, who, in the year 1G29, thus Avrote concerning it : " One 

 strawberry more I promised to show you, which, although it be a wilde 

 kinde, and of no use for meate, yet I would not let this discourse passe, 

 without giving you the knowledge of it. It is in leafe much like unto 

 the ordhiary, but differeth m that the flower, if it have any, is greene, or 

 rather it beareth a small head of greene leaves, many set thicke together 



