NATURE NOTES. 
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“ One Strawberry more I promised to shew you, which 
although it be a wilde kinde, and of no vse for meate, yet I 
would not let this discourse passe, without giuing you the know- 
ledge of it. It is in leafe much like vnto the ordinary, but 
differeth in that the flower, if it haue any, is greene, or rather 
Fig. I. 
Fig. 2 . 
Fig. I. — Strawberry bearing leaves and shoots in place of carpels (pips). 
Fig. 2 . — A shoot from the same strawberry bearing a flower at its tip. 
it beareth a small head of greene leaves, many set thick together 
like unto a double ruffe, in the midst whereof standeth the fruit, 
which when it is ripe, showeth to be soft and somwhat reddish, 
like unto a Strawberry, but with many small harmlesse prickles 
on them, which may be eaten and chewed in the mouth without 
any maner of offence, and is somewhat pleasant like a Straw- 
