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Mochras, near Harlech, Merionethshire. It may be well to give a 

 description drawn up partly from a specimen sent me by Mr. Lloyd 

 many years ago, and partly from Mr. Lloyd's notes : — 



V. CuRTisii Forster f3 Pesneaui Rouy & Foucaud, Flore de 

 France, iii. p. 50 (1896) ; V. Rothomntfrnsh Pesneau, Cat. Loire- 

 Infer, ed. 2, non Des-f. ; V. Pesneaui Lloyd, Fl. Quest, ed. iii. p. 43 

 (1876). Root slender. Stems numerous, covered with a fine 

 pubescence. Lower leaves oval, the petiole being generally rather 

 longer than the lamina, the intermediate oval or oval-lanceolate, 

 the upper lanceolate, all crennlate-dentate ; described as being 

 longer than the internodes, but in the specimens not always so. 

 Stipules with somewhat arcuate, narrow, ciliate, lateral lobes. 

 Peduncles several times longer than the leaves. Bracteoles de- 

 scribed as being situated on or a very little below the curvature ; 

 in the specimens examined they are always below the curvature. 

 Sepals oblong-lanceolate, pointed, shorter than the corolla, finally 

 somewhat of a violet colour, with appendages distinctly passed by 

 the straight spur of the corolla. Upper petals violet, lateral also 

 violet a little ascending, lower at first whitish then violet, yellow 

 at the base with seven rays, covering the lower base of the lateral 

 petals. Capsule rounded oval, very obtuse, a little shorter than 

 the sepals. 



V. sabnlosa Boreau, an allied plant, differs in having longer 

 narrower leaves. 



V. Pesneaui Lloyd is in the Index Kewensis reduced to V. 

 Rothomar/ensis Desf., the Rouen violet. The former is a plant of 

 the seashore, the latter is synonymous with V. hispida Lam. — a 

 very hispid plant, first described from specimens obtained in the 

 neighbourhood of Belboeuf, a short distance from Rouen. 



There is a very interesting plant allied to V. Pesneaui in the 

 British Museum Herbarium, gathered by Messrs. Britten and 

 Nicholson on the sand-hills at Southport in 1882. The flowers 

 are for the most part violet, and the spur is singularly long and 

 slender. It is apparently at present without a name. Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett informs me he has had the same plant in his herbarium 

 from coast sand-hills, Wallasey, Cheshire, collected by Mr. J. 

 W. Burton. The Mullaghmore form, named by my father V. Sywei, 

 also belongs to this group, there being numerous puzzling inter- 

 mediates between the different named forms. 



V. cARPATicA Borbas in Koch's Synopsis, ed. iii. p. 222 (1892). 

 Mr. J. A. Wheldon has recently sent for comparison specimens of a 

 violet gathered on arable laud reclaimed from Cockerham peat 

 moss, West Lancashire. The plant bore certain points of resem- 

 blance to V. pohjckroma Kerner, but did not entirely agree with 

 this species, and I submitted it to Prof. Borbas, of Budapest, an 

 authority on this group of plants. He identifies it as his F. 

 carpatica, a plant which is not uncommon in the Carpathian Alps, 

 and which he states {op. cit.) = V. declmata x tricolor var. subalpina.^^ 



* It must, however, be remembered that V. decUnata W. & K. has not been 

 recorded as British. 



