



25S PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Impatiens. 



hollow and open. In no plant may the process of impregnation 

 be so distinctly seen. Linn. Summit fringed on the lower part, 

 and the hairs of the fringe nearly in contact with the anthers. 

 These varieties are improved and enlarged by garden culture, 



and then obtain the names of Pansies. Heart's-ease. Three faces 

 under a hood. Lonje in idleness. Corn fields and ditch banks. 

 [Very fine in the lanes about Bishton, Staffordsh.] 



A. May— Sept, 



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Ju'tea. V. Stem unbranched, upright, 3 -cornered : leaves fringed 



with hairsj lower ones heart-shaped, upper ones 

 spear-shaped. 



E. hot. Ill-Tet. 37. 10-//. ox. v. 7. 11. 



From 2 to 8 inches high. Root creeping. Lower leaves 

 heart-shaped, upper leaves spear-shaped; stipulae strap-shaped, 

 entire, or rather divided down to the base, but in the V. tricolor 

 they are hand-shaped. Fruit-stalks very long, axillary, upright, 

 j -flowered. Moss, pale but bright yellow. In the V. tricolor 

 the leaves are hairy at the edges as well as elsewhere, but not 

 fringed with strong hairs standing out like an eye-lash, as in the 

 V. lutea. The stem of the former is almost always branched, 

 but I have never seen the latter branched, not even in the strongest 

 and most luxuriant specimens. 



Var. 2; Two lower petali tipped with purple. Mr, Gough* 



Var. 3. Upper petals blue. 



Yellow Violet or Pansies. Mountainous pastures, in 



the 



North, and in Wales in a rotten peaty soil. Ray. About Atta- 

 mine Cliffs near Settle, Yorkshire. Curt. [Hills above Dove- 

 dale, Derbyshire, and in the North. Mr. Woodw. Chatsworth 

 Park, Derbyshire. Mr. Whateley. Pastures about Longdate 

 near Oxton plentiful. Mr. Gough.— -In the road between Settle 

 and Malham Tarn, Yoiksh. Mr.CALEY. — On Ben Lawers and 

 Craig Calleach. Mr. Brown.] P. May— -Scpt-t 



IMPATIENS. Calyx 2-leaved : bloss. 5 -petals, 



irregular : nectary hood-like : stam. cohering'- 

 caps, superior, 1 -celled, opening with a jerk 

 into 5 spiral valves. 



Dr. Strack says that it infallibly cures the scabby complaints * 



; V9mnb children, called Crusta lactea. He boils a handful of the tje$h \?u 

 half a dram ot the dried leaves, in half a pint of milk, and gives this m»^ 

 morning and evening, for some weeks. Med. Journ. ii. p. 188. 



t This plant has been usually considered as the VioUfgrandiflora o 

 Linn, but Dr. Stokes in the 2d edition of the Bott. Arr. shewed with no 



young 



little propriety ; and Mr. Afzclius has since informed me that our p^ 

 Was entirely unknown to Linnaeus, whose V. grandiflora bears a «* u 

 larger Hower, and differs both in the spur and in the stipul*. 



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