Strawberry Blite is a hardy annual, growing spontaneously in some parts of France, Spain, and Tartary; is not a very old inhabitant of our gardens, Mr. AITON mentioning it as being first cultivated by Mr. MILLER in 1759. Its berries are produced from June to September; in their taste they have nothing to recommend them, though not pleasant they are harmless. CLUSIUS we believe to be the first author who gives a figure and description of it. It affects a dry soil, and open situation; in such there is no necessity to give any particular directions for its cultivation, as it comes up readily from seed spontaneously scattered, so much so as sometimes to prove a troublesome weed. [277] MAHERNIA PINNATA. WINGED MAHERNIA. _Class and Order._ PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-dentatus. _Petala_ 5. _Nectaria_ 5 obcordata, filamentis supposita. _Caps._ 5-locularis. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ MAHERNIA _pinnata_, foliis tripartito pinnatifidis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 308._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 398._ HERMANNIA foliis tripartitis, media pinnatifida. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 943._ HERMANNIA frutescens, folio multifido tenui, caule rubro. _Boerh. Lugd. 1. p. 273._ LINNAEUS, in his _Spec. Pl._ regarded this plant as a species of _Hermannia_; finding afterwards that it differed materially in its fructification from that genus, he made a new one of it in his _Mantissa_, by the name of _Mahernia_; still, however, the two genera are very nearly related: one principal difference consists in the nectaria of the _Mahernia_, which are very remarkable. This species was introduced from the Cape, where it is a native, by Mr. MASSON, in 1774, and is now very generally met with in our green-houses. It produces its little bells, of a lively red when they first open, from June to August, or September; is a small delicate plant, and easily raised from cuttings. [Illustration: No 277] [Illustration: No 278] [278] LILIUM CANDIDUM. WHITE LILY. _Class and Order._ HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Cor._ 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarifera. _Caps._ valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ LILIUM _candidum_ foliis sparsis, corollis campanulatis, intus glabris. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 433._ _Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 324._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 429._ LILIUM album flore erecto et vulgare. _Bauh. Pin. 76._ LILIUM album vulgare. The ordinary White Lily. _Park. Parad. p. 39. t. 37. f. 4._