CHLORANTHY. 275 
becomes in process of time suppressed.’ Gewm coccinewm 
has been found by Wigand with its flowers in this con- 
dition.” 
Lindley* figures a very interesting illustration in 
Potentilla nepalensis, in which some of the flowers 
have their component parts leafy, in others the recep- 
tacle lengthens, till in extreme cases the whole of the 
floral apparatus is represented by a branch bearing a 
rosette of leaves. 
A particular variety of the Alpine strawberry is also 
described as occasionally subject to this transformation. 
In these flowers the calyx remains normal, while all 
the other parts of the flower, even to the coating of 
the ovule, assume a leaf-like condition.* 
1 Gris, ‘ Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr.,’ 1858, vol. v, p. 261, and ‘Ann. Se. Nat.,’ 
ser. 4, vol. ix, p. 80. Planchon, ‘ Flore des Serres,’ vol. i, 1856, p. 129. 
2 ‘Flora,’ 1856, p. 711. 
3 ‘Theory of Horticult.,’ ed. 2, p. 90, f. 25. 
* 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 (Fragaria vesca fructu hispido) is a sort of 
botanical Dodo upon which many have written, and which few have 
seen. Many years have elapsed since it was first discovered; and 
although a century and a half have passed since there was any évidence 
of its existence, it serves still as an illustration for students in mor- 
phology of one of those strange abnormal structures with which the 
vegetable kingdom abounds. 
Tt is to old John Tradescant we are indebted for the earliest record of 
this plant. Johnson, in his edition of ‘Gerard, says: “Mr. John 
Tradescant hath told me that he was the first that tooke notice of this 
strawberry, and that in a woman’s garden at Plimonth, whose daughter 
had gathered and set the roots in her garden, in stead of the common 
strawberry ; but she, finding the fruit not to answer her expectation, 
intended to throw it away; which labour he spared her in taking it and 
bestowing it among the louers of such varieties, in whose garden it is yet 
preserved.” Doubtless one of those “ lovers” was his friend John Parkin- 
son, who, in the year 1629, thus wrote concerning it: “One strawberry 
more I promised to shew you, which, although it be a wilde kinde, and 
of no vse for meate, yet 1 would not let this discourse passe without 
giuing you the knowledge of it. It isin leafe much like vnto the ordi- 
nary, but differeth in that the flower, if it haue any, is greene, or rather 
it beareth a small head of greene leaues, many set thicke together like 
ynto a double ruffe, in the midst whereof standeth the fruit, which, when 
it is ripe, sheweth to be soft and somewhat reddish, hike vnto a straw- 
berry, but with many small harmlesse prickles on them which may be 
eaten and chewed in the mouth without any maner of offence and is 
somewhat pleasant as a strawberry; it is no great bearer, but those 
