__ parting its roots. 
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Viota Pepata. Curt-LEAvED VIOLET. — 
Clafs and Order. 
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA+ 
- Generic Charaéfer. 
Calyx 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, poflice cornuta : 
Capfula fupera, 3-valvis, 1-locularis.  _ 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
VIOLA pedata acaulis, foliis pedatis feptempartitis. Lint. 
Syft. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 802. Spec. Pl. p. 1323+ 
Gronov. Fl. Virg. ed. 2. p. 135. 
VIOLA fricolor caule nudo, foliis tenuius diffeétis. Banif. 
Virg. 
VIOLA inodora flore purpurafcente fpeciofo, foliis ad mo- — 
dum digitorum incifis. Clay?. 2.254. © 
This fpecies of Violet, a native of Virginia, is very rarely — 
met with in our gardens; the figure we have given, was drawn — 
from a plant which flowered this fpring in the garden of : 
Tuomas Sixes, Efg. at Hackney, who poffeffes a very fine 
colle€tion of plants, and of American ones in particular. 
It is more remarkable for the fingularity of its foliage than F 
the beauty of its bloffoms; the former exhibit a very goo? 
example of the folium pedatum of Linn.xus, whence its name> — 
Mitrer, who calls it mullifida from a former edition of . 
Linn2us’s Species Plantarum, fays, that the flowers are nO 
fucceeded by feeds here, hence it can only be propagated by - 
_ The beft mode of treating it, will be to place the roots in 
a pot of loam and bog earth mixed, and plunge the pot into : 
a north border, where it muft be fheltered in the winter, OF 
taken up and kept in a common hot-bed frame. 4 
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