CLASSIFICATION. 69 



THE STRAWBERRY. 



GEWtrS PEAGAEIA. 



(Name referring to the fragrance.) 



Petals white; receptacle of the fruit high-flavored; scapes 

 several-flowered; runners naked. Flowers in spring and early 

 ,summer; inclined more or less to be dioecious. 



An exceedingly variable genus in which over 100 species 

 have been formed bnt in which there are probably not over a 

 dozen distinct ones. Only four are of. interest to the 

 horticulturist. 



THE GAEDEN STEAWBEKET. 



P. Chiloensis, Duchesne. — From Chile, but also native all 

 along the Pacific coast, has a low habit and thick, dark colored 

 leaves which are bluish-white below, and is clothed with long, 

 tehaggy hairs; scapes and runners strong; fruit large and 

 usually dark colored, with a very large "hull" or calyx. The 

 var. Ananassa, or Pine Steawbeeet, is a horticulturally modi- 

 fied form, comprising the common garden strawberries which 

 run into many hundreds of kinds. Izaak Walton said in his 

 "Complete Angler," "Doubtless God might have made a better 

 berry, but doubtless God never did." 



THE WILD STEAWBEEEY. 



P. Yirginiana, Duchesne.- — Leaflets of firm texture, their 

 smooth and often shining upper surface with sunken veins, 

 flowers usually below the leaves, calyx becoming erect after 

 flowering and closing over the hairy receptacle when unfructi- 

 fied ; fruit with a narrow neck, mostly globular, its surface with 



