




328 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 

but from that point it has been banished by agricultural enczoachments. 
There is therefore no evidence that this species now exists south of 
Long Island should also offer some favorable points for its occurrence. 
—J. H. REDFIELD, Philadel iphia 
FnaGARIA GILLMANI.—In the Henle rod (p. 221) Judge Clinton de- 
scribes a new Fragaria, from Mexic With specimens before me, it is 
clearly Arcak but Fragaria vesca Aia F. vesca is a very variable 
plant. It is found not only all over Penes but through the whole moun- 
e I have 
specimens collected even in the sienai low elevation of the Alle- 
ghanies i iE raria that are not in the slightest degree different 
from this Mexic ne. 
It might not pee amiss to describers of species to suggest that greater 
attention be given to natural variations. Great evil has resulted to 
ticular attention to the strawberry for over twenty years, and am $ 
that “ dization and the gardener's skill" in the production es varie- 
ties are pure imagination. The gardener has preserved, but has not 
examined, I have little doubt a they are forms of one thing. Indeed, 
with the exception of F. Indica, there is every probability that all the 
Species of strawberry are closely zanad forms of one another. 
One law in strawberry development which has been of great service to 
me is that the * Nim. or stolon, is but a modified ‘flower stalk,” OF 
peduncle, bearing along its course viviparous d. instead of flowers. 
The grades between the forms of this one thing—that is, the vigor- 



gE 
S ; produce stol tolons, the number of flower spikes is increased, 
as they cannot “run,” as a a stolon, make up for this by continual axial pro- 
tion, bearing a succession of flowers mcis the whole season. 


