PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA, Viola. SOT 



rally longer than the calyx ; the odd one broadest and yellow ; 

 lateral ones pale blueish j 2 upper ones (the flower being always 

 reversed,) purple ; all more or less marked with black radiating 

 streaks. In /3 they are all shorter than the calyx, the odd one only 

 being yellow, the" rest whitish ; but there is no permanent spe- 

 cific difference. 



8. V. lutea. Yellow Mountain Violet, or Yellow 

 Pansy. 



Stem triangular, unbranched. Leaves ovate-oblong, cre- 

 nate, fringed. Stipulas lobed, palmate. Bracteas minute, 

 scarcely toothed. Spur the length of the calyx. 



V.lutea. Huds.ed. 1.331. Fl. Br. 248. Engl. Bot.v.W. t.72\. 

 With. 263. Hook. Scot. 77. 



V. grandiflora. Huds. ed. 2. 380. Light/. 508. 



V. n. 566. ]8. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 243. 



V. montana lutea grandiflora nostras. Raii Sijn. 365. 



V. flore luteo majore. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 121. 



Great Yellow Pansie. Pet. H. Brit. t. 37. /. 10. 



In moist mountainous pastures. 



Very common in the mountainous parts of Wales, and the north 

 of England, as well as in Scotland. 



Perennial. May — September. 



Root fibrous, slender. Stem 3 or 4 inches high, simple, leafy, tri- 

 angular, a little downy at one side ; tapering, weak, and de- 

 cumbent at the base, where it is sometimes, though very rarely, 

 divided. Leaves alternate, stalked, ovate, strongly crenate, a 

 little hairy, especially at the edges ; the lowermost small, round- 

 ed, or heart-shaped. Stipulas large, deeply palmate, or fingered; 

 their middle segments largest. Flower-stalks one or two on each 

 plant, axillary, solitary, rising much above the top of the stem. 

 Bracteas towards the upper part of each stalk, alternate, small, 

 oblong, obtuse, occasionally with two small teeth at their base. 

 FL larger than the last, with which the calyx nearly agrees, but 

 the corolla is generally yellow, with blackish, branched, radiating 

 lines j the lateral petals palest 5 the 2 upper ones sometimes 

 purple. When all are purple, as sometimes happens, Professor 

 Hooker says this is V. amcena of authors. The anthers are di- 

 stinct, with a small orange-coloured appendage. Style with a 

 double curvature. Stigma club-shaped, hollow, hairy at the 

 sides, marked underneath with a dark purple line. All the pe- 

 tals are densely bearded round the mouth of the flower. 



Great confusion has existed between this very distinct species and 

 theLinneean V. grandiflora, whose Jiowers are twice as large, 

 and the spur twice as long as the posterior lobes of the calyx ; 

 whereas in V. lutea those parts are of the same length ; see 

 Rees's Cycl. n. 67. 



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