276 PHYLLODY. 
Among Leguminose a partial leafy condition (frond- 
escence), or a more complete degree of the same change, 
(chloranthy) is not infrequent, particularly in Trifoliwm 
repens. In this species the changes are so common, so 
various and important, that they may be alluded to in 
some little detail. M. Germain de Saint Pierre,’ in 
commenting on the frequency with which the flowers 
of this plant are more or less frondescent, remarks 
that although all the flowers on one plant may be 
affected, they are all changed in the same manner, but on 
different specimens different degrees of transformation 
are found. In all the corolla and stamens are com- 
paratively little removed from the ordimary form, the 
calyx and pistil, however, have a particular tendency 
to assume a foliar condition. The author just cited 
arranges the malformations of this plant under three 
heads, as follows: 
1. Calyx-teeth larger than usual, sometimes dentate at the margin; 
petals more or less regular and disposed to run away from the papilio- 
naceous form; filaments free; anthers normal; carpel transformed into 
a true leaf with a long stalk provided at the base, with two stipules, 
terminal leaflet, solitary, green, with no trace of ovules. Sometimes a 
second carpellary leaf, similar to the first, is formed; in other cases the 
central axis of the flower is occasionally prolonged into a head of young 
flowers—median prolification. In some few instances the calyx is not at 
all altered, but the carpellary leaf is trifoliolate, or even quinquefoliolate, 

it doth beare, are set at the toppes of the stalks close together, pleasant 
to behold, and fit for a gentlewoman to weare on her arme, &c., as a 
rairitie in stead of a flower.” 
Merret, in his ‘ Pinax,’ published in 1667, says he found it growing in 
the woods of Hyde Park and Hampstead, and Zanoni was the first to 
figure it (with the exception of Parkinson’s rude woodcut) in his 
‘Istoria Botanica,’ published in 1675. It is mentioned by Morison and 
also by Ray, the latter of whom inserts it in his Synopsis, but without 
any habitat; though in his ‘ Historia Plantarum’ he says: “Canta- 
brigiz in horto per aliquot annos colui.” From this time henceforth 
the Plymouth strawberry has become a botanical Dodo, nothing more 
having been seen or heard of it except the mere record of the name. In 
766, M. Duchesne informed the world of the generosity of “M. 
Monti, Docteur de Philosophie et de Médecine a Boulogne en Italie,” 
who divided with him a dried specimen taken from his own herbarium, 
“Ce présent prétieux m’éte toute incertitude sur la nature de ce Fraisier 
et sur ses caracteres monstrueux. I] paroit ne pas avoir aujourd’hui 
plus @’existence.” 
1 «Bull. Soc. Bot. France,’ 1856, vol. ii, p. 477. 
