the Northumbrian plant, that I did not suspect any error in
the reference; but, upon looking more carefully into the
original authority, I find that the true F. calycina has a
shorter flower-stalk, larger flowers, and a calyx much more
developed than in the subject of the present plate.
This, like the Common Wood (F.vesca, 1.1524.) and the
Alpine Strawberries, varies with white and red fruit. The
white-fruited variety is called the Simon-burn Strawberry,
and has the most claim to rank as a species; it is this only
that I had in view when the Synopsis was published; the
red-fruited, or Gofton-burn Strawberry, is a more luxuriant
and larger plant, with from three to five flowers in an umbel,
and its leaves are much more pointed.—J. L.
Fig. 1, a flower of the Simon-burn variety, slightly magnified
; fig. 2, a flower of the Gofton-burn variety, also
magnified, showing a variation in the calyx which is not
unfrequent.
