supposed to be new to the British Flora. 279 



The peduncles are also clothed, though less copiously, with 

 similar deflexed pubescence ; and the bracteas are glandularly 

 ciliated near the summits, and slightly hairy at their keels : 

 facts not noticed in either V, odorata or V. hirta. The lateral 

 petals are totally divested of the slightest trace of the hairy line, 

 which is constantly present in all the other British species of 

 Viola. The sepals have a few hairs on their membranous 

 edges and spurs. The seeds approach more to an oblong 

 form than those of V. hirta. The scions are creeping, as in 

 V. odorata ; and not procumbent, as in V, hirta. 



A plant corresponding in all respects with the violet at the 

 Sharpstones Hill, I subsequently found on an open slope of 

 Sutton Wood, about two miles from the former station. [The 

 kind was plentiful in both the stations, it is stated in the de- 

 tailed description.] 



Fiola hirta, so far as my researches extend, does not occur 

 in this neighbourhood ; nor have I ever met with the blue 

 variety of V. odorata, although I this spring gathered more 

 than a hundred specimens of the white variety of V, odorata 

 at Pulley, near this town ; all of which I carefully examined, 

 and found each to possess the hairy central line most dis- 

 tinctly on the lateral petals. It must, however, be candidly 

 confessed, that the pubescence of this variety agreed generally 

 with that of V. imberbis. [The vernating leaf of cultivated 

 plants of V. odorata has its petiole and subface (under sur- 

 face) abundantly pubescent, and the hairs upon the petiole are 

 very obviously deflexed.] 



I have transplanted into my garden roots of V. imberbis, 

 both from the Sharpstones Hill and Sutton Wood, and also 

 of the white variety of V. odorata from Pulley, for the purpose 

 of watching any changes which may possibly take place, and 

 for the convenience of making experiments in raising plants 

 from the seeds of each. 



Viola lactea. — In May, 1832, in company with Professor 

 Henslow and other friends, I collected in the fens [? Bottisham 

 ten, for one] near Clayhithe, Cambridgeshire, many speci- 

 mens of Fiola lactea, some of which I dried for my herbarium, 

 and others I carried with me to Shrewsbury, and planted in 

 my garden, where they have since remained. Judge, however, 

 of my surprise, when from year to year I have perceived the 

 leaves of this plant gradually changing from the ovate-lan- 

 ceolate character of V. lactea, to the cordate-acute form of V, 

 canina; and its blossoms, from the cream-coloured state in 

 which I gathered it, assuming the decided blue colour of V. 

 canina. Numerous seedlings have this year sprung up around 



