flourishing state in the open ground at Messrs. Whitley, 
Brames’, and Milne’s nursery, Parson’s Green. 
The drawing was made from a plant kindly communicated 
to Mr. Edwards by Mr. N. 8. Hodson, of South Lambeth. 
Sir James Smith, misled by an unfaithful figure and im- 
erfect specimen of the species, had conceived the seed to 
he baccate, having a covering of juicy pulp as in the Rasp- 
berry and Blackberry, instead of the dry one of the Straw- 
berry, which really belongs to it. Combining this charac- 
ter with the yellow bloom and biformed calyx, he has been 
induced to make our plant the foundation of anew genus, 
which he has called Ducursnea, to commemorate Mons, 
Duchesne, the ingenious author of the illustrations of the 
species of Fracarta, Taking it however for granted, that 
the misconceived nature of the seed has been mainly relied 
on in framing the new genus, we consider the structure as 
baseless, and deserted by the framer, 
_ @ The calyx with stamens and pistils, after the corolla has been removed, 
