plant described and figured in the Flora sibirica of Gmelto, 



which makes the difference palpable, and leaves it beyond 

 dispute. Nor do we recognise our plant in any recorded 



Viola. In the Banksian Herbarium we find specimens of 



it received from the Chevalier Pallas, which were gathered 

 on the Altay mountains in Siberia, on the confines of the 

 Chinese dominions. It has a flower that varies in size, but 



which is always larger than the leaf, and the largest of any 

 species known to us. The foliage varies from ovate rounded 



and longer than the petiole, to oval and slightly attenuated 

 each way, but especially towards the petiole, which is then 

 longer than that : a. variation perceptible even in the two 

 spontaneous specimens of the Banksian Herbarium. The 

 whole plant is smooth., the peduncles robust, resem- 

 bling scapes, and as well as the calyx of a livid blueish 

 green; spur of the corolla scarcely extended beyond the 



lobes of the calyx. The blossom cannot be said to be fra- 

 grant, yet when smellcd near, a bitterish, but not un- 

 pleasant odour is perceptible. 



Being still 



rare, it 



frame or pit with the alpine plants. 



fully kept in garden-pots in a 



and beinir 



& 



•y p 



violets. 



But seeding freely, 

 parting* the root, it will 



iv then he treated like other hardy 



Its introduction is known to have been from Russia ; 

 out we have not ascertained precisely the time when it 

 eamc, by whom sent, nor by whom received. . 



We should observe, that flowers produced early in the 

 summer are often more than twice the size of those pro- 

 duced at a more advanced period of the year. 



r l he drawing was made from a plant in the nursery of 



Messrs. i'raser, in Sloanc Square. It flowers for months 



in succession. 



a The stamens and pistil as they appear when the corolla and calyx are 

 removed, b Three from the body of the five coherent stamens detached 

 and extended- magnified, c A single stamen, showing the short filament, 

 Urge anther with the membranous appendix on its summit : magnified. 

 d Pistil, showing the ovate trioleate germen, short Style, and ureeolate 

 stigma : magnified. 





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