180 l)r Grahani''s Description of New or Rare Plants. 



hairy, decurreiit along the inside of the numerous deeply divided at length 

 protruded segments of the style ; germen depressed, glabrous, cells ar- 

 ranged in a circle, yellowish, each emarginate on the outside, and within 

 extended into a dark-green blunt apex. Ovules solitary in ^ach cell, re- 

 niforra, attached by the sinuosity, and pendulous. 

 I hesitated about describing this plant as a distinct species, fearful that in 

 the genus there may be a strong disposition to vary. So many plants, 

 however, have flowered in ditlerent gardens around Edinburgh, some 

 from imported roots, others from seed, as in Mr Cunningliam's nursery. 

 Comely Bank, at Mr Neili's, and at Mr Falconar's Carlowrie, and all 

 with precisely the same characters, that I believe it will be thought at 

 least as distinct from either of the two already in cultivation as they are 

 from each other. The figure published in the Botanical Magazine was 

 dtawn from a very vigorous plant in Mr Neili's greenhouse, which has 

 been in flower ever since the beginning of August, and has still, at this 

 late period of the season (17th December) several flowers upon it. The 

 presence of the involucrum brings the genus too near Malva, into which 1 

 strongly suspect it should fall. My desire for this reduction is increased 

 by the discovery of the synonyme of Cavanilles, for which I am indebted 

 to Dr Hooker, as well as for pointing out that Persoon, De CandoUe, 

 and Sprengel, have copied a blunder of Willdenow's, who marks Lusita- 

 nia instead of Louisiana, the station affixed to the plant by Cavanilles. 

 We are, therefore, as Dr Hooker very justly remarks, indebted to Mr 

 Drummond, not only for the addition of a very pretty plant to our gar- 

 dens, but for the means of clearing up a doubtful species. Cavanilles 

 described and figured his plane as having only two leafets in the involu- 

 crum ; but this of course arose from his description having been made 

 from one, and, as it would seem, an imperfect specimen. 



Viola pedata, var. 



V. pedata; stigmate incrassato hinc oblique truncate, rostro brevissimo, 

 foliis pellucido-punctatis palmatisectis, stipulis pectinatim laceris longe 

 adhoerentibus, j>etalis omnibus glabris. — De Cand. 



Viola pedata, Linn. Sp. PI. edit. 2. p. 1323.— Willd. Sp. PL i. 1160 



Bot. Mag. t. 89. — Michaux, Fl. Bor. Americ. ii. 151. — Andrew, Bot. 

 Ilepos. t. 153 — Pers. Synops. i. 254 — Poiret, Encycl. Meth. viii. 625. 

 Pursh, Fl. Americ. Sept. i. 171 — Nutt. Genera, i. 147 — Roem. et 



Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 351 Elliott, Bot. of S. Carolina and Georgia, 



i. 300 — 'De Cand. Prodr. i. 291 — Bigelow, Flor. Boston. 96 Torey, 



Fl. of the Middle and Northern Sections of the United States, i. 249. 

 — Spreng. Syst. Veget. i. 797- 

 Viola Virginiana tricolar, foliis multifidis, cauliculo aphyllo. Pluk. Aim. 



388. t. 114. fig. 7. 

 Viola digitata, Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. i. 17 1. — Roem. et Sckult. v. 351. 

 Viola rauunculifolia ? foire^, Enc. Metb. viii. 626 — Roem. et Schult. v. 

 352. 

 Description. — Root having a large fleshy crown. Leaves (1^ inch long, 2 

 inches across) all radical, flat, somewhat fleshy, covered on the upper sur- 

 face with minute pubescence, glabrous and shining below, having many 

 minute transparent dots, strongly nerved, nerves prominent on both sides, 

 but especially the upper, the outer leaves often cuneate, truncated, cre- 

 nate in the centre, inciso-crenate at the sides of the abrupt termination, 

 the others pedate, 5-7-lobed, lobes spathulate,- 3-5-toothed at the apex, 

 er entire. Petioles (2-3 inches long) rounded below, flat above, and there 

 having a strong prominent rib. Stipuloe subulate, peclinato-ciliate, ad- 

 hering to the dilated base of the petiole for nearly half their length. 

 Scape (5 inches high) erect, longer than the leaves, glabrous, channelled 

 on its inner side, bracteate a little way above the base ; Iractece opposite, 

 subulate, toothed, gibbous at the base. Calyx glabrous, green ; leafets 

 shortly auricled (the two lowest every way the largest) broad and truncated 



