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VIOLA altaica. 



Tartarian Violet 



PENTANDRIA MOXOGYXLI. 



f IOLJ. Cat. monopliyllus bine sub petalo supremo fissus, 5-narti- 



t ii s lacmiia basi product!*. Pet. 



a iitteqiuiiiu ; .vtiprcimim j u j par majos, 



nionadelpha ?,) quorum 2 basi appendiculatu in superior]* petali cornicuium 



lrrepentia. Stigma acutum aut urceolatiira. Cap*. 3-gona l-loc. poly- 

 8 per ma, 3-valv. val vis medio seminiferifl ; embryo rictus tenuis subcyliu- 



dricus in albumine carnoso centrale. 



sieu. gen. 2[)4. 



/ 



fruttcei; folia 



inverso. Jus- 





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\. altaica, caulescens, glabra; foliis crassiusculis, ovatis ovalibusve, 

 crenatis ; tloribus inversis, unduiatis : petalis rotundatis, transversa 

 latioribus, subreniformibus. 



Perennis, ccespitosa breeds. Caules reclinato-assurgentes. Folia carnosula, 

 frma, glabra, vix \ partes uncice longe, apice rotuncleta et petiolo longiora, 

 vel nunc in petiolum ipsis longiorem attenuate, et acutida. Petioli glabri, />7- 

 (juetro-cayialiculati. Stipule bince erectce, elongato-oblongce , sublyrato-incisa 

 dentibus subtrinis in utroque latere, apice rotundatce. Pedunculi foliis duplo 

 vel magis altiores, scaposo-erecti, robusti, tetragoni cum sulco in dorso, 

 lceves % uti calyces livido-virentes, hand midtum infra reflexion apiceni bracteis 



2 minutis oppositis instruct?'. C sdycis foliola oblonga parum attenuate ecumine 

 obtusulo, margine obsolete cartiUvfineo-serrata, posfice trunceto-denticu/ato, 

 dentibus apice glandulosis. Cor. folio p/urimum amplior, stre'.yiinco-pellesccns, 

 orificio longitudinali feucis labiato-barbata. Petala omnia imbric ttione pro* 

 funda iuvicem incumbent in , oblata-rotundata ; supremum fob resupinationem 

 infimum) infra medium lineis pluribus cceruleis pictum, apice retusum, basi 

 lamince jiwcicanSy ungue intiis barbatum, cornu recto lobos posticos colycinos 

 vix exsuperante ; lateralis supremo angustiora, infra medium striis panels 

 phimosis cceruleis picta, basi lamina? barbata ; infinia supremo bis, laterutibus 

 ter,fere latiora } imberbia, unicolora. Stigma virens, urceolatum. 



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A plant that has p 



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with 



j — re , 



\y any better claim than 



mt of being indigenous in the Siberian districts of 



p 



the other. Unifli 



but described 



as having a one-flowered three-leaved stem, cord 

 leaves, with very short petioles and a dwarf 



t\ 



res 



that would by 



tii 



d 



the 



difference of the plants. But L 



the Mantissa add 



VOL. L 



tor the synonym of his 



species, a 



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