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traded at the base, deep scarlet or blood-colour ; the carpels all 
smooth and even, continued down quite to the base of the re- 
ceptacle. 
The fr. is collected mostly by the children of the country- 
people, especially those of the Porto da Cruz district, and 
brought for sale in Funchal early in the morning daily during 
the season in small baskets neatly covered with chestnut -leaves, 
their contents being sold for from u half a bit ” (2-t-</.) to twice 
as much each. The supply is most abundant in May a^d June. 
The fr. though small and acid is remarkably high-flavoured, 
especially late in the season. 
The ordinary English varr. of Garden Strawberry are also 
cultivated in the neighbourhood of Funchal and elsewhere from 
1000-2000 ft. above the sea; e. g., the Roseberry, Kean’s Seed- 
ling, Black Pine, Carolina, Chili, &c., but not the Old Scarlet 
(F. virginiana Mill.) or the Hautboy (F. elatior Ehrh.). Of these 
the white or blush-coloured Chili Strawberry (F. Chilensis 
Ehrh. var. [/3. ananassa Duch ?]) thrives apparently the best, 
the fr. attaining an unusual excellence and flavour. 
I have a note of a Fragaria gathered at the Mount in May 
1828, with “ sep. erect after flowering,” and so referred by me 
at the moment to F. collina Ehr., but which was probably a 
mere aberrant F. vesca L. However the true F. collina Ehr. 
with sep. close-pressed to the fr., and the latter contracted and 
barren, i. e. without carpels, at the base, should be also care- 
fully looked for in Mad. 
7. RtJBus L. 
Bramble, Blackberry, or Raspberry. 
* Shrubby; barren st. of year (y.-st.) arched or declining, 
often rooting at the end. 
1. R. DISCOLOR W. and N. Common Bramble. Silvado. 
Y.-st. arched, rooting at the end, angular furrowed and like 
the petioles minutely stellately downy and very prickly ; prickles 
large compressed declining or deflexed from a long base ; lfts. 
5-nate or 3-nate all stalked ovate-oblong acuminate, sharply 
and finely but unequally serrate and plaited at the edges, hard 
and coriaceous , glazy-white and closely tomentose beneath ; pan. 
long narrow, its branches equal short few-jld ., the lower remote 
axillary, upper crowded 2-3-fld. corymbose, all naked (without 
glands or setce) but minutely stellately downy and armed with 
