VIRGINIAN <>i; SCARLET STRAWBERRY 



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Fruit of 

 d Btrawberry. 



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World group, and the Chilian <>r Pacific group. All 

 these groups are perplexingly variable. 



The Virginian Btrawberry is the common field and 

 meadow Btrawberry <>i' the eastern states. It has 

 received many names from botanists, 

 the oldest being Fragaria Yirginiana 

 of I Midi. '-lit- ( 1766 . Its features are 

 clearly depicted in V\< r :>. 111!. 113 and 

 114. — the bluntish- toothed, thickish 

 leaflets overtopping the flowers, the 

 small drooping- rayed fruit truss, and 

 the globular -pitted berry. < >n moun- 

 tain.-" and along our northern borders 

 and in Canada, the plant becom< - 

 squat, and this form was called Fragaria Canadensis 

 by Michaux. I have Been Michaux's specimens in his 

 herbarium at Paris (from Lake Mistassinica) , and they 

 look distinct enough from the field strawberry of lower 

 latitudes and altitudes; but it is doubtful it' it is worth 

 while t<> keep them apart as <li.-tim-t species. William 

 I.'. Prince, tin- Long Island nurseryman, proposed two 

 large prairie forms of the strawberrj as distinct spe- 

 cies in 1 S '>J (Proc. Amer. Pom. Sue. viii. Hod), naming 

 t luiti Fragaria Towensis and F. Ulinoensis, The latter 

 name has Bince 1><-.-ii used t'< >r the larger-growing forms 

 of the species, as Fragaria Virginiana var. Ulinoensis. 



The native strawberry of Europe i> cbaracteri2ed by 

 thin, li^ht green, and sharp-toothed leaflets, which are 

 overtopped by the flowers, bj a small and weak truss, 

 ami a nmiv or less elongated berry with the seeds uot 

 imbedded in tin- flesh. This type of BtrawbeiTj is also 

 common in the northernmost Btates and Canada, and 

 throughout our mountain systems. There is some 



