PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. \ iola. .?05 



shorty blunt, yellowish sjnir. Cahjx-Ieavcs lanceolate, pointed. 

 Capsule shorter and rounder tb.an in canina. 

 This little plant, long ago communicated by the late Mr. Crowe, 

 is not uncommon, though usually neglected as a variety of the 

 /"". canina. It has remained unchanged, and of the same hum- 

 ble stature, perfectly shrubby, for above 12 years, in a common 

 garden ; and seems entitled to rank as a species, under the sy- 

 nonym of Dillenius; though his figure by no means represents 

 the true nature of tlie stem, nor does it exhibit any of the parts 

 most material for sjiecific discrimination. I have already ad- 

 verted to this ^'iolet in lleess Cyclopcedia under the canina, n. 



7. V. tricolor. Pansy \lolet, Heart's-ease. 



Stem angular, difliise, divided. Leaves oblong, deeplv 



crenate. Stipula:^ lyrate, })innatifid. Bracteas obsolete. 

 W tricolor. Liun. Sp. PL 1326. Jfllld. f. 1 . II 68. Fl. Br. 248. 



Eng/. Bot. V. 18. t. 1287. Curt. Loml. fasc. \. t.Gj. Woodv. 



suppl. t. 2.V2. Hook. Scot. 77. Fl. Dun. t. 023. Raii Syn. 365. 



Ger.Em.SiJ4. f. Riv. Pentap. Irr. f. 122. Renealm. Spec 144 



t. 110. Elir}i.Pl.Oif'.27S. 

 V. n. 508. Hall. Hu^iv.]. 244. 

 Herba Trinitatis. Fnchs. Hist. 802. t. 803. 

 Jacea, sive Flos Trinitatis. Matfh. P'algr. v. 2.524./. Camer Epif 



912./. 

 Garden Pansie. Pet. H. Brit. t. 37./. 8. 

 /3. Viola arvensis. Sibth.H4. S?/m. S?/n. 61, 

 V. n. 509. Hall. Hht. v. 1 . 244. 

 \. bicolor arvensis. Raii Sijn. 360. 

 V. bicolor. Riv. Penfap. Irr. t. 122. Ehji. PI. Of .339. 

 V. tricolor pctraea. Ger. Em. 854./. 



.Tacea altera. Matth. I'algr. v. 2. 525./. Camer. Epit. 913. /'. 

 Corn Pansie. Pet. H. Brit. i. 37. f. 9. 



In cultivated fields. 



Annual, May — September. 



Root fibrous, small. Stems 1 or more, weak, decumbent, a span 

 long, scarcely branched, except at the very bottom, leafy, angu- 

 lar, often zigzag, downy chiefly on one side. Leaves alternate, 

 stalked, ovate-oblong, deeply crenate, ribbed, a little downy ; 

 the lower ones often heart-shaped, especially in the variety /3. 

 Stipulas all deeply pinnatifid, with narrow tongue-shaped, or 

 linear, segments j the terminal one very large, ovate, or elliptic- 

 oblong, crenate. Flower-stalks axillary, solitary, longer than the 

 leaves, firm, with a pair of minute close bracteas near tiie sum- 

 mit. Calyx-leaves lanceolate, acute, smooth or downy, mostly 

 fringed, especially at the base, where they are much and un- 

 equally dilated. Petals very variable in size and colour, gent?- 



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