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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[May, 
except in our own grounds. Among the many 
■wild flowers that we have introduced into the 
garden none have given us more pleasure than 
this. It is a biennial, which ripens its seeds 
Fumitory Family ( Fumariacece ), and its name 
is the ancient Greek one for Fumitory. The 
beautiful Alleghany-vine, Adlumia, and the 
native and cultivated Dicentras (Bleeding- 
Georgia by the late Mr. Durand, without 
suspecting it was not a wild plant. He sent the 
plant to Torrey and Gray, who supposed it to be 
a new species of Cinquefoil or Potentilla, and 
vanilla plant. —(Liatris odoratissima.)—See page 183 . 
named it in their Flora of N. A., P. Durandii. 
As these botanists had the plant without fruit, 
this mistake is not to be wondered at, as this 
Fragaria differs from all other strawberries in 
having yellow flowers, which is the color of 
the flowers in most Potentillas; the main dif¬ 
ferences between the two being found in the 
fru f. The Indian strawberry, which is a much 
smaller plant than either of 
our native ones, unlike them 
produces leaves along its 
runners; its manner of 
flow'ering is different from 
that of other strawberries 
in producing a single flower 
stalk in the axil of a leaf 
which bears but a solitary 
flower. The calyx proper 
has acute sepals, and im¬ 
mediately beneath these are 
toothed leafy bractlets; pe¬ 
tals bright yellow. The 
fruit, which is small, has 
the appearance of an ordi¬ 
nary strawberry, but is 
odorless and insipid. In 
Europe it is valued as a 
plant for growing upon rock-work; it is also 
fine for a hanging basket, being an almost per¬ 
petual bloomer. A piece of our garden plant 
was taken into the house, and has produced 
its cheerful yellow flowers and bright but 
deceptive scarlet strawberries all winter. 
and drops them early, and the young plants 
from them acquire sufficient size the same sea¬ 
son to flower next year. In the wild state it is 
more common in rocky places than elsewhere, 
and is often not more than six inches high, but 
in the more favorable soil of the garden it is 
two feet or more. The plant in its first season 
from the seed is not without beauty, as it 
presents a tuft of finely- 
divided leaves which are of 
a remarkably pale, glau¬ 
cous green color. In May 
shoots up a leafy flower stem 
which bears at the top a 
panicle of purplish, yellow- 
tipped flowers, which, while 
not very showy, are exceed¬ 
ingly neat and pleasing. 
Ir the garden the plant 
continues to flower nearly 
all summer. The flowers 
resemble those of the well- 
known Dicentra, except that 
instead of having two spurs 
to the corolla this has but 
one. This species is rather 
common, and is found as 
far south as the mountains of North Carolina; 
a pale yellow species, C. flarvla, and a golden 
yellow one, C. aurea, are less common. Several 
exotic species are perennials, the finest of which, 
C. nobilis , is sometimes, though rarely, seen in 
our gardens. The Corydalis belongs to the 
Heart, Dutchman’s Breeches, and Squirrel 
Corn) also belong to the same botanical family. 
The Indian Strawberry. 
It is a little strange that a plant, at first 
known only from Nepaul, should have become 
Indian strawberry. —(Fragaria Indica.) 
naturalized in this country and make itself at 
home with all the appearance of belonging 
here. This the Indian Strawberry, Fragaria 
Indica, has done. It is sparingly found near 
Philadelphia and more plentifully farther 
south. Many years ago it was collected in 
