STURTEV ant's NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 28 1 



1654. Fragaria velfraga maxima. Sweert. Flor. t. 2, f. 8. 



1654. Fragaria vel fraga media: Sweert. Flor. t. 2, f. 9. 



1677. Fragaria. Fraga. Chabr. Sciag. 169. 



1680. Fragaria hortensis major. Mor. Hist. Ox. S. 2, t. 19, f. i. 



1680. Fragaria sylvestris. Alor. Hist. Ox. S. 2, t. 19, f. 2. 



1696. Fragaria. Zwing. Theat. Bot. 864. 



1696. Fraga alba. Zwing. Theat. Bot. 865. 



1 7 14. Fragaria flore pleno fructu rubello. Barrel. 7co. 89. 



1 7 14. ^fragaria spinoso fructu. Barrel. Icon. n. 90. 



1739. Fragaria vulgaris. Weinm. Iconog. t. 514, f. c (col.). 



1739. Fragaria hortensis Jrncto maxima. Weinm. Iconog. t. 514, f. d (col.). 



1742. Fragaria arborea confiore herbaceo. Zanon. ffisi. t. 78. 



. 1744. Fragaria vulgaris. Morandi t. 7, f. 3. 



1749. Fragaria. Blackw. Herb. t. 77 (col.). 



1760. Fragaria. Ludw. Ect. t. 136 (col.). 



1774. Fragaria chiloensis. Dillen. Elth. t. 120, f. 146. 



F. chiloensis Duchesne, garden strawberry, pine strawberry. 



Western shores of the New World. This is a dioecious strawberry, bearing very large 

 fruit and called in Chile quelghen.'- The best quality of fruit, according to Molina,^ came 

 from the Chilean provinces of Puchacay and Huilquilemu. The plant was carried by 

 Frezier in 17 12 from Conception to Europe and from Europe was carried to the West 

 Indies.' Prince * describes the Large Scarlet Chile as imported to this country from Lima, 

 about 1820, and the Montevideo, about 1840, and 14 other varieties originating from this 

 species. 



F. collina Ehrh. green strawberry. 



Europe and northern Asia. The fruits are greenish, tinged with red, of a musky, 

 rich, pineapple flavor. Prince enumerates fovir varieties as cultivated.* 



F. elatior Ehrh. hautbois strawberry. 



Europe. The French call this class of strawberries caprons. The fruit has a musky 

 flavor which many persons esteem.* Prince ' describes eight varieties in cultivation. 



F. vesca Linn, alpine strawberry, perpetual strawberry, wood strawberry. 



Temperate regions. Previous to 1629, the date of the introduction of the Virginian 



strawberry, this was the species generally gathered in Europe and the fruit referred to 



by Shakespeare: 



" My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holbom, 



I saw good strawberries in your garden there." 

 This species is mentioned by Virgil, Ovid and Pliny as a wild plant. Lyte,* in his trans- 



