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Among the surprises in the swamp is a shrub which Chapman 

 describes (if I have identified it correctly) as two or three feet 

 high, I believe, but in Okefinokee it often climbs trees twenty or 

 thirty feet, by a new and unheard of method, without twining, 

 tendrils, rootlets, or anything of the kind. The shrub I make 

 out to be Andromeda phillyreaefolia, and the single tree which it 

 climbs is one which has never had any parasites, epiphytes, or 

 anything else reported from it ; viz., Taxodium imbricariam. 



From what I have read of Dismal Swamp and seen of Oke- 

 finokee I should judge that there is some little similarity between 

 them, but I think Okefinokee is superior from a botanical stand- 

 point. It contains many undescribed kinds of plant communities. 



Brunswick, Georgia, August 14, 1902. 



IS THE WHITE-FRUITED STRAWBERRY OF 

 PENNSYLVANIA A NATIVE SPECIES? 



By P. A. Rydberg 



In 1898, Mr. C. L. Gruber, of Kutztown, Pa., sent to Dr. Brit- 

 ton specimens of the so-called white-fruited strawberry of 

 Pennsylvania. In his letter Mr. Gruber wrote among other 

 things, the following : " The berries are cream-color, of an ex- 

 cellent peculiar flavor unlike other strawberries, globular, flattish- 

 globular, or conical, usually with a very short neck." 



As the specimens sent were so like the European Frag aria 

 vesca that I could not find any other difference than the color of 

 the fruit and perhaps a little more glaucous lower surface of the 

 leaves, I thought that the specimens represented some escaped 

 white-fruited form of the cultivated " Alpine " strawberries. 

 In my monograph of the North American Potentilleae I there- 

 fore took up the Linnaean name Fragaria vesca alba and applied 

 it to the Pennsylvania plant. 



At the recent meeting of the A. A. A. S. at Pittsburg I met two 

 persons well acquainted with the flora of western Pennsylvania, 

 viz., Mr. Shafer, of the Carnegie Museum, and Mr. O. P. Meds- 

 ger, of Jacobs Creek, and both thought that the strawberry was 



