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VIOLA* preemorsa. 
Bitten-rooted Violet. 
E rae 
PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. VIOLACER. 
VIOLA.— Supra, vol. 1. fol. 54. 
$ CHaMEMELANIU™.—Stigma spheroideo-capitatum, utrinque fasci- 
culis pilorum onustum, foraminulo minuto sublaterali. Stylus compresso- 
clavatus. Stamina oblonga approximata. Torus planiusculus. Capsula 
sepè trigona. Folia seminalia seepiús subrotunda. Petala 2, ungue bar- 
bata.—De Gingins in Dec. prodr. 1. 300. M 
V. premorsa ; caule simplici erecto, foliis ovato-oblongis petiolatis hirsutis 
integris, capsulis pubescentibus. 
V. premorsa. Douglas in herb. Hort. Soc. 
Radix crassa, carnosa, premorsa. Herba perennis, subacaulis, villosa. 
Folia ovato-oblonga, subrhomboidea, cucullata, obsolete dentata, petiolorum 
longitudine ; stipule lanceolate, integerrima. Pedunculi foliis duplò 
longiores. Sepala linearia, pilosa. Corolla lutea, conspicua; petalis 
superioribus patentissimis, inferiore cuneato basi striato. Stigma capi- 
tatum, utrinque pilosum. Capsula pubescens. 
A common plant, according to Mr. Douglas, in dry 
upland soils, under the shade of solitary Pine-trees on the 
banks of the Columbia, and the plains of the river Aguilar, 
in California, flowering in April. With us it is an exceed- 
ingly pretty perennial, hardy, and growing readily among 
rockwork, on the north side of large stones. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society in 1828. | 
The nearest affinity of this plant is, as Mr. Douglas 
informs us, with V. Nuttallii, from which it differs in being 
* The ie of the Greeks, which was our Viola odorata, gave rise to the 
name of Viola. 
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