PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Viola. 257 



stalks proceed from it. Leaves sometimes rather hairy. Stlpuhe 

 fringed with hairs. Moss, pale blue, streaked, scentless, some- 

 times all white, sometimes the spur only white. 

 Dogs Violet. Shady places, heaths, hedge I 



P. April— J 



Var. 2. Dwarf. Smaller 

 yellowish. Dill, in R. Syn. 



Stem very short. 



Ray 24. 1, at p. 478. 



smaller 



•»% 



common kind, the largest not exceeding half an inch long, and 

 one-third broad. Leaf scales not so much fringed. Flower sel- 

 dom more than I. I have carefully traced it through all its 

 stages, up to the largest plants of V. canina. Woodward. 



Pastures about Mitcham. R. Syn. [Heaths frequent, Mr. 



] May. 



OODWARD 



r 



Var. 3. Leaves spear-shaped. Flowers pale. 



E. hot. 445. 

 [Found by Mr. Stackhouse at Pendarvis in Cornwall.] 



P 



(3) With a stem. Stipulce wing-cleft. Summit urn-shaped. 



V. Stem branched : leaves egg-shaped, toothed : calyx tri'color. 



smooth, but half the size of the blossom. 



This plant is liable to almost endless varieties, of which the 

 following are the most remarkable. 



Var. 1 . Blossoms white, or yellow white ; small, with a few 



purple streaks. 



Matth. 1183-Ger. 704. 4, and ? '03. \~Fuchs % 803-J. B. iii. 

 545. 2-Trag. 56i-Lob. ic. i. 6ll. 2-Ger. em. 854. 4- 

 H. ox. v. 7. lO.~Pet. 37- 9. 



Corn fields. [Gravel 



] A. May— Sept 



Var. 2. Blossoms blue, or purplish, with or without yellow 

 or White. 



I 



Kniph. 7~Ri<v. pent. 122. V. bicolor-Ptt. 37. &-Barr. 7b7* 



1 and 3. 



poor sandy and \ 

 ims of more than 



urt.-fFo 



flowers. 



Stem weak. Stipule terminating at the end in a leaf-stalk. 

 * r M-stalis compressed. Floral-leaves 2 on each fruit-stalk, hal- 

 berd-shaped, each of the lobes with 2 teeth. Summit globular, 

 Vox-. II. S 



