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thing I have said to the contrary in the generic character. Yet 

 there may be 2 kernels in one testa, as well as 2 yolks, by acci- 

 dent, in one egg. 



250. FRAGARIA. Strawbenv. 



Linn. Gen. 255. Juss. 338. Fl. Br. 54C. Sm. in Rees's Cijcl. t- . 1 5. 

 Tourn. t. 152. Lam. t.442. Gcertn. t.73. 



Nat. Orel, see Ji. 0,5^. 



Ca/. inferior, of 1 leaf, flat, permanent; limb in 10 deep 

 .segments, 5 alternate ones external and smallest. Pet. 

 B, roundish, spreading, attached to the rim of the calyx 

 by their short claws, opposite to its outer segments. Fi- 

 lam. 20, from the rim of the calyx, awl-shaped, erect, 

 shorter than the corolla, permanent. Aiitli. roundish, 

 incumbent, of 2 cells, deciduous. Germeiis superior, nu- 

 merous, roundish, small, collected into a round head. 

 Sti/les 1 to each germen, lateral, short, incurved, per- 

 manent. Stigmas simple, obtuse. Berry spurious, formed 

 of the enlarged receptacle of the seeds, become pulpy, co- 

 loured, ovate or roundish, abiaipt at the base, finally de- 

 ciduous. Seech numerous, naked, scattered over the 

 surface of the berry, roundish-ovate, acute, smooth and 

 even. 



Herbs more or less hairy, with trailing runners, and short 

 erect flowering stems. Leaves ternate, rarely simple, 

 strongly serrated, somewhat plaited. Stipidas in pairs 

 luiited to the base of each footstalk. Fl. imperfectly pa- 

 nicled, white. Fruit red, varying to a yellowish white, 

 fragrant and delicious ; to most people very wholesome ; 

 to some few an absolute poison. The word mostlj/ should 

 be expunged from the second line o{p. 353. 



Dr. Nestler of Strasburgh, a recent writer of great merit, 

 has, in a Monograph on Potentilla, applied the name of 

 bracteas to the 5 outer segments of the calyx, in these 

 genera and their allies. Mr. Seringue, and die present 

 Mr. Haller, have done the same. But bracteas belong 

 properly to the inflorescence, not to the fructification ,- 

 and these outer segments differ in no respect from the 

 inner, except a more leafy texture, in which they exactly 

 agree with the leaflets, or pimice, of the calyx-segments 

 in Rosa, which it would be absurd to call bracteas, and 

 which actually prove the parts in question not to be such. 

 Dr. Nestler moreover follows several recent botanists of 

 high rank in denominating the seeds of these plants 



