FRA 
RAGA, in “Geography, a town of Spain, in Aragon, 9 on! 
the frontries of Cat - me ancient tow the" 
Hlergetes, called by P ‘a. 
confiderable importance un 
onia fidence of a vicar 
It has two aleades, eight regidors, t three’ gates, a conven 
of Grand Auguttins, and two parifh fh churches. oa ome 
the river 
Cinca. This place was formerly a fortified to n, and de- 
fended by a caftle, now in ruins. It fuit pale feveral, aac 
a. armies Ara in 
mencement of the 18th century; in. 1705, was a by the 
] 
Srogros to Fait r Oe aay on ‘account of the 
perfume of -its Fruit —Strawberry.—Linn en. 255. 
Schreb. 342. Willd. rg Pl. v. 2. 1090. Lamarck. Dict. 
Mee ene: eG 
tg t. 73. Clafs and Order, 
a. Senticofor ‘Linn. Rofacee, Juff. 
af, Hat, in ten 
oY 
ff. 338. Ta, « 152. 
Teofurbia Polyagnia. Nat 
. Cal... Pe rianth iafexior, - lac 
fegments the five alternate ‘ones ex arrowelt. 
Cor. Petals five, roundifh, equal, Giesine, inferted iy their 
rt claws into the calyx. Stam. Filam ents o, awl-fhaped, 
fhorter than the ae inferted into pana anthers 
_ numerous, ver {mall, 
berry is formed.o the common receptacle of the ale en- 
Yarged and -become pulpy, foft, aes ofa ee ovate 
figure, ‘abrupt at the bafe, deciduous. umerous, mi- 
nute, pointed, {moot th, naked, {cattered over the furface of 
the receptacle. 
ff. ‘Ch. Ca aly x. inferior, in ten fegments. ‘Petals five. 
Receptacle of the feeds ovate, pulpy, deciduous. Seeds 
i ited with the futile diftin@ions of. the 
nd, fometim 
ime, cae peeve in. Holland, mes ran 
had a diftin: king under the forni- Tach 
- how or, other} all defeeri 
. comparifon of the 
i" = FRA 
abd of- Buchefne, in ‘his excellant: iets Waturelle de 
Prats printed at Paris in 1766. “Thiet «modal O dee 
curate. and in} 
ee f 
ous s obfervaticn ‘and: set: ‘afi ‘Haller 
eget os 
ent As ek 
0. g cur 
> bythe mg Rte int? an “ay Soihmitinieated 
les. sees 
narite, ‘in Lam it's Distonaite' ‘de Botanicuue, 
2.528. ' In thefe publications the only -etrér péfliips ie. 
of iypoinia! idea of ‘the plants .in quettion’ beings nie 
ided fro romh‘a- cériinon | : CK's -€ 
pid: fpeiie 
siHhisd original . 
error iene dom, “shagh ‘he was fu “iithed by ‘Duckiefie 
an excellent, pecime ins of al ‘the: bert whith | "ule 
4a1~} 
leaf, if not a ready détettion, Of: Seteain fpectfie 
This error has been correéed, in the moft: matterl; andniie soy 
Fbrhart in his Beitri age, fafe. ‘iE cies of 
ied the’f 
ding dition dcare arom are naGeeeouittty, 
aaeue works ; fo‘that we prefume the fpeciés 
of ee can hereafter: never be ob sae whatever’ ‘yieve 
varieties may arife, or old ones difappears * not “in- 
deed find fome other c sas — a Phichart froma. 
terminal ferr of eadh ‘leaflet with 
its next neighbours, fo much | o e de 
thefe are not wanted.. 
fo uféful in Mints, fee Tranfdthons 2 ; 
171. andin Myo/otis; fee ee Be : gis on Ditrds to 
Bot. 228, is all-fufficient, 5 
si 
‘e and. de fie ee i te of 
fF eee by the lights ares n thee writers afford-; -orily as. - 
we do not ‘affent to Duchefne’s hbypothefts 7 fhe: ‘common 
origin, we fhall difpof own ‘ideas of ; 
Oo enume 
varieties of gardeners, whofe intere it it “is to  Bewilder thé 
fubject by extolling the flighteft sera orr sent 
old plants under a new is too much practi ifed3. 
not by the sae leaders i in i trade, ‘but, by fuch' as. 
ing notice. ‘Tf we fiould- ‘feém 
to a 
of theley pale “too flight in-our notice of fome of their + 
tinGtions, we beg leave to remind:them of the endlefs s erin : 
of apples and pears, all produged by feed, ee foonér 
returning to their common origin. “Even'in* 
crab, wild in our hedges, accurate enauines may: difcove t- 
aoe Couey neces in flavour and quality, which render the 
of fruit’ in wild | firnbert -and: -ftill. more: ‘in eul- 
a a contrary: extr among plants the mot on Ca. Wool a ey ‘Linn, . Spe ‘Pl. aie: FL 
ultiv ated: 5 gd confidered as varieties. what are really, dif- Suec. 75 . Engl.’ Bott I 524. (Fragaria ; Camer- Epiti 
ne ae a ve 5. _ F. fylvettris Duchefne Oly 
A 
heir native countries, their 
Calyx 
fpreating 3. thofe of the 
‘of groves and thickets 
rope. Di. Sibtliorp-founid it in-the woods-of 
artial flower-ftalks 
i pe the’ colder ao of Exe. 
f- the! allel 
