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PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Viola. 



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In Cornwall it has 4 stamens. Mr. Stackhouse. Leaves 

 egg-spear-shaped, opposite, on leaf-stalks. Fruit-stalks from 

 the bosom of the leaves, and supporting 1 or 2 pair of flowers. 

 Petals greenish white. Filaments fixed in holes in the recep- 

 tacle. Fruh angular, purplish ; sometimes white. 



Common Spindle Tree. Prick Wood. Prick Timber Tree, Gat- 



teridge Tree. Louse Berry. Woods and hedges. [This singular 

 and beautiful shrub is very common in Devonshire.] 



S. May, June. 



VrOLA. Calyx 5-leaved, adhering to the blossom 



above the base : bloss. 5 petals, irregular with 



a spur behind : anthers 

 celled, 3-valved. 



(l) Stemless. 



cohering : 



caps. 1~ 



V. Leaves heart-shaped, rough with strong hair. Linn, hir'ta. ; 



Leaf-stalks rough with hair : fioral-leaves below the 

 middle of the fruit-stalk. Curt. 



IV ale. -Curt. -F I. dan. 6l8-//. ox. v. 33. ronjo 1. f. 4>-Pef. 



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Root throwing out young shoots, but which do not creep and 

 strike root as in the V. odorata. After the first flowers are wi- 

 thered, the plant continues, for a month or more, to throw out 

 others entirely destitute of petals, or with only the rudiments of 

 them, which never appear beyond the calyx, but with all the 

 other parts of fructification perfect, and producing as the first 

 crop perfect seed. Curt. Bloss. pale blue ; scentless. 



Hairy Violet. Shady places and hedges in a calcareous soil. 



P. March, April. 



V« Leaves heart-shaped: suckers creeping. Linn. Floral- odora'ta 



leaves above the middle of the fruit-stalk. CuKT.f 



E. hot. 6\$-Curt.-Ludw. 17 h-Walc-Woodv. 8\-Kniph. 3 

 *J& dan. 3V§-Renealm> 141. l~B!ack<w. 55~Sheldr. \J-+ 



* The berries vomit and purge violently. They are fatal to sheep. 

 Powdered, and sprinkled upon the hair, they destroy lice. If the wood is 

 put when the plant is in blossom, it is tough, and not easily broken ; and 

 in that state is used by watch-makers for cleaning watches, and to make 

 sowers and tooth-picks. Goats and sheep eat it. Horses refuse it. 

 Cows are so fond of the shoots in the spring as constantly to break down 

 l ^e banks of the fields wherever a plant of it stands. Mr. Woodward. 



t This observation to be made when the flowers are fully expanded, 

 *s the part of the fruit-stalk above the floral-leaves grows considerably 

 lo nger before the blossoms are faded ; Curt, for Which reason, depending 



upon it as a jnark of specific distinction, may mislead. Mr. Woodward, 





