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NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 221 
Miklin has published an elaborate monograph of the Strongylium-tribe 
(heteromerous Coleoptera), with four plates. An interesting biography 
ef the late Prof. Nordenskjold, the celebrated mineralogist and geologist, 
is also cea in the same volume. In the * Proceedings of the Finnish 
pus Society of Science" Prof. Luther has p MM smaller botani- 
; cal papers, i. e., ** On a New Species of Pimelia ( P. vividula) and Musschea 
(M. pallescens)" ; ; and ** On an abnormal fA ciento in “punta etc. 








NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
BOTANY. 
EW FRaGARIA. — The Fragaria which I venture, after a careful ex- 

Mr. F. Mack. Only o Lar survived the journey. From that origi- 
Hated the extensive "plantatio of J. P. Whiting & Co., of Detroit, who 
9f the genus which bears its achene es, or carpels, superficially on the re- 
de and is Tape rm from all its congeners by its dichotomous 
m and racemose flow. 
dg justice to Henry eina Esq., the active and meritorious botanist 
first indicated its claims to specific rank, as well as in token of my 
vam SOBRE for pue : prea for it the name of Fragaria Gillmani ; 
and I characterizé it t 
pis intone Deu dichotomo. foliis ternatis, foliolis petiolatis, 
= aphroditis racemosis, carpellibus —Ó libus. 
I annex a detailed description furnished by Mr. Gillman: 
dag a Psi ca than the leaves, dichotomous, racemose, many-flowered, b "we: 
pedu liate leaf variously situated from below the middle to the summi 
le, Which i3 clothed w ith a spreading or deflexed “ir bescence, more silky, 

EN ften cleft or > 

the roundish 
much Smaller t ‘than the Fruit drooping, 
l int segments, s ovato Janceolate 
Wat where. erior which nón rus: pagi cuc; ors arte 
fragrant; achenia numerous, 


Jer coniu for, grateflly sone mb-acid, singularly 
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