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VIOLA ODORATA. SWEET VIOLET. 



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SrNONTMJ. Viola. Pharm. Lo?id, ^ Edlnh, Viola martia 

 purpurea, flore fimplice odoro. Bauh, Pin, p. 199. y. Bauh, 

 Hifi. it, p. 542. Rail H'tjl. p. 1049. ^ynop. 364. Viola nigra 

 five purpurea. Gerard, Emac, p. 550. Viola fimplex martia. 

 Park, Par ad. p. 282. Viola acaulis ftolonifera, foliis cordatis. HalL 

 Stirp.Helv. n. 558. Viola odorata acaulis, foliis cordatis, ftolonibus 

 reptantibus, brad^is fupra medium pedunculi. Curtis Flor. Lond, 



Varietates funt. 



Viola martia purpurea, flore fimplice odoro. C. Bauh, L c.p. 



Purple Flojvered Sweet Viole 



Viola martia alba. C, Baub, I. c, p, 199. 



White Flowered Sweet Violei 



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Viola martia multiplici flore. C. Bauh. I c. p, ] 



99, 



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99 



Doubl e Fl owe red Swee t Viol e r.* 



Clafs Syngenefia. Ord. Monogamia. Lin. Gat. Plant. 1007. 



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Bff. Gen. Ch. Cal 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, pollice 



cornuta. Caps, fupera, 3-valvis, i-locularis. 



Sp. Ch. V. acaulisj fol. cordatis : ftolonibus reptantibus.- 



THE root is perennial, knobbed, whitifli, and furniflied witR 

 long fibres : the leaves are heart-fhaped, veined, crenated, or flightly 

 fcolloped at the edges, on the upper fide fmooth, and of a fhining 

 green colour, underneath paler, fomewhat hairy, and ftand upon 

 long fmooth footftalks : the ftipulx are membranous, lance-fhaped, 

 mmutely ferrated, and chiefly produced from the root : the peduncles 

 are ufually about four inches long, and fomev^rhat above the middle 

 lurnifhed with two pointed brafte^, below which the peduncle is 

 quadrangular, but above it is grooved on the back, bent downwards 



at the top, and fupports a fmgle flower: the calyx is compofed of 



Vide Alton's Hort. Kew 



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