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Chili was introduced many years since into 

 Europe, and 1 have seen in the botanic garden at 

 Bologna the white kind, which is the most 

 common in Chili, but it had lost much by trans- 

 plantation ; its fruit was smallj and little of the 

 fragrance was left which renders it so highly es- 

 teemed in Chili.* 



The madi (madia, gen. nov.) Of this plant 

 there are two kinds, the one wild, the other cul- 

 tivated. The cultivated, w^hich I have called 

 madia sativa, has a branching hairy stalk, nearly 

 live feet in height; the leaves are villous and 



* We found in the deport strawLeriics of a vcr\ fine flavour, 

 equal iu size to our largest nuts, and of a pale vhile ; and 

 although tliey resembled the European neither iu colour nor 

 in taste, they were nevertheless excellent. FeuilU, vol. i. 



There are whole fields where a species of strawberry is 

 rultivated that differs from ours iu its leaves, which arc 

 rounder and more fleshy and hairy; the fruit is usually the 

 size of a nut, and sometimes that of a hen's egg. The colour 

 is a whitish red, and the taste not so delicate as that of our 

 sttawberries. But there is not wanting iu the woods a greal 

 plenty of the European kind. Fraziers Voyage, vol. i. 



Die fruits most abundant iu Chili are of tlie same kinds 

 with those kuown in Europe, among wliich arc cherries that 

 are large and of a delicate taste, strawberries of two kinds 

 one called frut'iUa, which is of the size of a sniail hen's egg ; 

 and aaolher, in colour, SiueU and ta-te, iil.e that of Spain, 

 which grows wild at the foot of tiie little liil!^ ; bkewise all 

 kinds of flowers are found tl.H-re ^^ ithout any other cuUi- 

 valioii tiiau whut fiiey receive from \hx huiiu'^ ,)?" luiturc itst-ii". 

 -Uii'ju's Voyo^^-:, 'Odinii;, \()l,iii. 



