404 THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNLIKE, [XXV. 



Barnet wrote, about a century later, he knew only 

 three varieties in England which he could refer to it, 

 one of which he considered to be identical with the 

 original plant as introduced by Frezier. The Chilian 

 strawberry grows along the Pacific coast in both 

 North and South America, and it has been intro- 

 duced into our eastern gardens several times from 

 wild sources ; but it always soon disappears. There 

 is little in the record of this species, therefore, of 

 promise to the American horticulturist. 



In the middle of the last century, a third straw- 

 berry appeared in Europe. Some writers place the 

 date of its introduction with considerable exactness ; 

 but the fact is that no one knew just when or how 

 it came. Phillip Miller described and figured it in 

 1760 as the Pine strawberry, in allusion to the pine- 

 apple fragrance of its fruit. There were three 

 opinions as to its origin at that time, some saying it 

 came from Louisiana, others that it came from Vir- 

 ginia, while there was a report, originating in 

 Holland, that it came from Surinam, which is now 

 the coast of Dutch Guiana. None of these reports 

 has been either confirmed or disproved, although 

 Gay, in making extensive studies of the growth of 

 strawberries, may be said to have effectually over- 

 turned the Surinam hypothesis in his remark that 

 to find a strawberry growing at sea -level within five 

 degrees of the equator, is like finding a palm in Ice- 

 land or Hammerfest. * Duchesne, in his Natural 

 History of Strawberries, t 1766, described a pine- 

 apple strawberry as Fragaria ananassa, and while he 



*Ann. Sci. Nat. 4th ser. viii. 203 (1857). 



tHistoire Naturelle des Fraisiers. Par M. Duchesne flls, Paris, 1766. 



