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whole head of the flower, with its sometimes ruddy colour, 
forms an apt resemblance to a strawberry. 
At first sight the plant is much like the T. repens ; the 
leaflets, however, have not the semilunar white or purplish 
spots. The flowers are sometimes nearly white, but 
oftener they are tinged with a pink or purplish hue. 
Both the T. repens and T. fragiferum have running 
prostrate stems, which root at the joint, but the straw- 
berry-headed fruit is at all times a good distinguishing 
character. 
The two plants are very different as to their spread and 
their conditions of growth ; the T. fragiferum is very local,and 
‘is only found in stiff clays, such as those of the fullers’ earth, 
forest marble, or Oxford clays, and it is an indication of a 
stiff, cold land, in want of drainage. 
We have gathered it very plentifully on the forest marble 
clays about Cirencester, and it is with us in Dorset every¬ 
where on the fullers’ earth, and when its heads of tumid, 
coloured calyces are well grown, and as they sometimes are 
elevated on long peduncles, these fruits become very con¬ 
spicuous objects, but beyond this it has little to recommend 
it, its herbage being not only scanty, but, we fancy, strong 
and purgative. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
The cattle plague having made its appearance in the 
Praga Superb of Warsaw, and being no longer confined to 
its original centre in Warsaw itself, the Prussian authorities 
at Oppeln have published an order, dated 3rd October, 
1880, forbidding the import and export of sheep from and 
to Russian Poland, as likewise the carriage of sheep to and 
from railway stations within the Prussian border, unless a 
certificate, duly attested by the police authorities, declares 
that the sheep in question have been in the district in 
which the loading station is situated for the period of three 
months. 
There appears to be no diminution of cattle plague in the 
governments bordering on Austria and Germany, and those 
adjoining the Black and Baltic Seas ; and a fresh outbreak 
of the disease is reported to have occurred at Wenden in 
e Province of Livonia. 
