PLATE CCCCLERIX. 
FRAGARTA™ INDICA 
Indian Strawberry. 
CLASS XXII ORDER V. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Many Pointals. 
GENE RIC CHARACTER, 
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" Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, planum, Emracement. Cup one-leafed, flat, ten-cleft: 
decemfidum : laciniis alternatim exteriori- the bai are alternately exterior, and 
, bus, angustioribus. narr 
Corotta. Petala peas subrotunda, paten- Brdvton. five-petalled, nearly round, spreading, 
tia, calyci inse and inserted into the calyx 
Stamina. Filam zak viginti, subulata, corolla Cuives. Threads twenty, awl-shaped, shorter 
breviora, aici inserta, Anthere lunu- an the een be into the calyx. 
lares, Tips like a half-m 
Pistirtum. Germina -numer TOSa, PoINTAL, Seed bitds # pepaea and small, col- 
capitulum collecta. Styli abies tee lected into a head. Shaft simple, inserted 
germinis inserti. Stigmata simplicia. into the side of the germ. Summit sim Pe 
Pericarrium nullum. Bacca fit receptaculum SEED-VESSEL none. e berry becom the 
commune seminum, rotundo-oyata, pul- common receptacle for tie sale isof around 
_ posa, mollis, magna, colorata, basi trun- ovate form, pulpy, soft, large, _ coloured, 
cata, decidua cut off at the base, and deciduou 
SEMINA numerosa, minima, per superficiem SEEDs numerous, small, on the ti. of the 
receptaculi sparsa, receptacle, scattered. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Fe 
Fracanrta foliis tripartitis : foliolis ovatis, acu- STRAWBERRY with three-divided leaves: leaflets 
tis, crenatis: petiolis longis: calyce de- ovate, pointed, and scolloped: footstalks 
< cemfido, inferne Piloso: quingue exteriori- lon alement ten-cleft, and hairy be- 
bus rotundatis, crenatis : interioribus ovatis, nea the five — ones ar di 4d 
acutis : unculis longis: floribus luteis : notch th are pe 
fructu toe insipido. Rami pilosi, re- pointed : peduncles pret flowers al 
pentes. fruit red and insipid. Branches bad, 
creeping. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
The empal seed-buds, chives, and pointals. 
The same shown. ceom the under side. 
A petal. 
Seed-buds, — og ee, 
A seed-bud and poin 
The same nientied. 
- A seed-bud from the ripe fruit. 
same magnified, 
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: Turi new species of Fragaria, ae, the lively Ss flowers and brilliance. of its fine ocigeg te ts fruit, 
sirable as an ornamental plant, but is in no oth r respect estimable, from the insipidity “Our figure 
_— is entirely destitute of flavour. Itisa natok of the north-east parts of ee ee Honourable 
made from the on] ant that ardens of 
c ey y plant that has as yet flowered in England, in the g 
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