254 _ ORD. XIII. Campanacee. 
VIOLA TRICOLOR, PANSIE, Or 
THREE-COLOURED VIOLET. 
SYNONYMA. Viola tricolor. Pharm. Dale. 239. Bergius. 
- 708. Murray. vi. 33. Violatricolor arvensis. Bauh. Pin. 200. 
V. tricolor sylvestris. Park.755. Ger. Emac. 854. Jacea tricolor 
sive Trinitatis flos. J. Bauh. iii. 546. Ray. Synop. 336. Hail. 
Hist. Stirp. Helv. 569. Huds. Flor. Ang. 331. Withering. Bot. 
Arr. 957. Curt. Flor. Lond. Fior. Dan. 623. @ Viola tricolor 
hortensis repens. C. B. 
Syngenesia Monogamia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1007. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, postice cor- 
<> nuta, _ Caps. supera, 3-valvis, 1-locularis. 
Sa Ch, V..caule triquetro diffuso, fol. eee incisis, stipulis 
pinnatifidis. <= 
a et etl POT Lie as Sennen ln cee 
ROOT annual, simple, tapering, fibrous. Stalks from four to six 
inches high, branched, thick, angular, succulent. Leaves various 
shaped, ovate, or elliptical, crenated, narrowest at the upper part of 
the plant, often three together, on long footstalks. Stipule com- 
pound, cut into linear segments. Flowers solitary, tricoloured, 
placed on long angular footstalks furnished with a pair of membra- 
nous stipulz near the flower. Calyx of five pointed leaves, of which 
the three uppermost are somewhat smaller than the others. Corolla 
pentapetalous, irregular. The two uppermost petals roundish, 
erect, dark purple; the two lateral petals elliptical, obtuse, yellow- 
ish, rough at the base, and marked with purple lines; lower petal 
broad, etched in the middle, yellow, tinged with dark radiated 
lines, forming behind a spur-like process or nectarium. Filaments 
five, very short. Antherz scaly, lax, united, two-celled, termin- 
ated by an orange-coloured membrane. Germen conical. Style 
