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stem rises about three inches, bearing a loose corymb of a 

 few rather large, golden-yellow, sweet-scented flowers. Seed 

 siliculose. Granite rocks o£ the Alps and Jura : Riff el, &c. 



15 and 16. Viola. -Violet and Hearts- 

 ease. 



(PLATES XL and XII.) 

 Everyone knows Violets and Heartseases, and the shape 

 of the flower is so special to themselves that they are 

 recognised at the first glance. But to distinguish them 

 one from another is a quite different and more difficult 

 matter. They are found in Switzerland in large bright 

 patches, of various colours and shades, growing in the free 

 way of our Dog-Violet, and abounding in flowers. Perhaps 

 no locality has more of them than the Pass of the Great St. 

 Bernard. On going there after their time of flowering was 

 over, we took a little patch of earth for the sake of some 

 other flower, and carefully kept it through the winter, when 

 lo ! the next spring, a little plant of V. biflora appeared 

 with its two pretty dark-lined blossoms. The Violas are 

 divided into those with and those without stem. This latter 

 means that the leaves and flower spring direct from the root, 

 as is the case with the Sweet Violet. We pass by the more 



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