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FRAGARIA Sarthe. 7 
Yellow-flowered Strawberry. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNI4. es 
FRAGARIA. (Germina plura indefinita, veré supera, ‘receptaculo 
communi imposita, singula monostyla. Semina totidem ‘nuda.)~ ‘Cad. 
patens 10-fidus laciniis alternis minoribus. Pet. 5. Receptacui/um’semi+ 
niferum magnum, pulposum, ‘baccatum ‘‘coloratum, ‘ sepé deciduum. 
Herba repentes, passim sepe radicantes; folia ternata, rarissimé ,digi- 
tata v. simplicia; stipula: petiolo adnate; flores sepits corymbosi, ter- 
minales, qudam dioict; receptaculum esculentum. Jussieu. gen. 338. 
sit 
F', indica; calycis laciniis exterioribus majoribus obovatis tridentatis.. 
; so Psa HOME at 
,, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3, 273.. : 
Fragaria indica. Andrews’s reposit.. 479. 4 BUIGIBIS OL oe 
Duchesuea fragiformis. Smith di lin. soc..trans.: 10.373. J 
Pubescens, reptans, flagellis filiformibus, rubidis, hirsutis, duriusculis. 
Folia in nodis solitario-distantia, ternata, foliolis rhombeo-ovalibus, inequa- 
litér mododgue subdu; licatim® crenato-incists; utringue pube. rariori sericeis, 
brevioribus petiolo fh nine, 
amplexicaules. Pedunculi aaillares, solitarit, uniflori, hirsuti, strictz. Cal. 
saturate virens, rotatus, pilosus, foliolis equilongis ; interioribus 5 angulato- 
ovatis, acutis, post anthesin conniventibus ; exterioribus totidem patentissimis, 
obovatis, apice tricrenatis media crena duplo latiore. Cor. calycem vie 
aquans, flava, rotata, decidua, petalis oblongo-obcordatis. Fructus erectus, 
sphaericus, saturate coccineus, nitidus, inodorus, insipidus, seminibus crebris 
nitentibus concoloribus-obitér receptaculo baccato adherentibus consitus. 
_ A species remarkable for uniting in itself the blossom 
of the Cinquefoil and the fruit of the Strawberry ; but has 
no other value in the garden than that which may be put 
on the fine bright poppy-coloured fruit as an ornament, 
being on the other hand destitute of all flavour and 
_ fragrance. Native of the mountains of the continent of 
India, where it was seen by Dr. Buchanan on the sand by 
the sides of the rivers in Nepaul. We hear that there 
is still another yellow-flowered species with insipid scarlet 
fruit, which is as peculiar to the islands of India as this is 
to the continent, but which has not yet, we believe, reached 
the european gardens. 
Introduced by the late Mr. Charles Greville, by whom it. 
was cultivated at Paddington in 1804. Usually treated as 
a greenhouse plant; but we have seen it in a still more 
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hirsuto: stipule gemine, parve, lanceolate, opposite 
