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 Viola biflora. Two-flowered Violet. 



CZass «wrf Order. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis,, postice cornuta. 

 Anth. cohae rentes. Caps, supera, 3-vaIvis, 1-Iocularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Viola biflora ; caule bifloro foliis reniformibus serratis, 



Wilid. Sp. PL 1. p. 1167. Horl. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 



47. Gmel. Sibir. 4. p. 98. rc. 61. F/or. Dan. t. 46. 



Decand. Fl. franc, v. 5. p. 808. 

 Viola biflora ; pedunculis caulinis, stipulis Ianceolatis, foliis 



reniformibus. Scop. FL Carniol. n. 1099. 

 Viola caule debili paucifloro, foliis petiolatis, reniformibus, 



obtuse dentatis. Hall. Hist. n. 564. 

 Viola alpina rotundifolia lutea. Bauh. Pin. 199. Bauh. 



Hist. 3. p. 545,/. 1. 

 Viola montana I ma - Clus. Pan. p. 357. Hist. 1. p. 309. / %. 

 Viola flore luteo. Icon. Gesn. cen. t. 8. f. 70. 

 Viola alpina rotundifolia minor lutea. Pluk. Phyt. t. 233. f 7. 



The Viola biflora is a small hardy perennial ; native of the 

 Alps, of the South of Europe, and of Siberia. 



Clusius mentions his having been informed that this violet 

 was found in the mountains of the North of England, whence 

 it has been supposed to be indigenous to this country. And 

 in Solander's manuscripts it is said to have been found in the 

 Welch mountains. This does not however appear to have 

 been confirmed, for it is not recorded as a British species in 

 the Compendium Florae Britannicae of Sir James Edward 

 Smith. 



The figure of this plant in the Flora Danica, above quoted, 

 is very good ; and Plvkenet/s is no bad representation of its 



habit ; 



