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E watching a bed of seedlings from F. Virginiana it will be seen that there 
D: is a continual struggle going on in the species (regarding all the so called 
Fragarias as one species) as to the transformation of the runners into 
flowering shoot ometimes the runner *party" will so get the upper 
3 hand that the pistils will be entirely suppressed, in which case the run- 
E ners push o it much enthusiasm as to crowd down and frequently 
2 cession of fruit on the stock, is the tendency to produce runners 
: ec But even this is subject to modification, for the ay produce 
. very short peduncles, although bearing full crops of fruit; they will in 
a crop at once and done with it, then push out with great vigor in the run- 
ning line (see New Jersey Scarlet). 
The result of my observation of plants in a state of nature is, that 
every tribe or genus of plants has its own peculiar law of variation, that 
all minor variations form around this great central law, and that unless a 
this la 

S 
In describing rri it will be seen that the law of variation cen- 
ires in the effort to produce flower spikes out of stolons, therefore, no 
racter drawn from differing forms of stolons or flower-scapes can possibly 
Serve to identify a species in this genus. 
Ihave thrown in these general views to excuse Judge Clinton, who, in 
making a new species out of an accidental variation in the cyme, has done 
no more than scores have done before him, and many more will in the 
future, nr these considerations. With regard to the merits of this 
everbearing strawberry as a horticultural novelty I offer no opinion. The 
I "msi ass of strawberries, however, are too much neg- 
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had. m tht little I have seen of this ** Mexican" I think it is. There- 
fore, mah the publie will not buy **a new —— they will get their 
j worth as a garden fruit.* — T. MEEHAN. 
Rare Moss.— Some rarer mosses have been detected here, of which 
mention may be made of Buxbawmia aphylla and Tetraplodon australis. 
. 7-H. E. P., Norron, Mass. 
ek dur odo eee 
ps beret. Iri rebel i 1 nad seem the ginis st DG A a i 


eas lad oe PRESE OE Ra ye ll known alpi > form of F, vesca. It 
is, however, inter: : tween the vivipa- 
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I have seen. Dii scapes and elato dare pecie ror een 
Partakes largely of the conditions of the other. 
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