20 VIOLACEvE. 



Named from capsella, a little capsule ; bursa-pastoris the literal 

 Latin for Shepherd^ s Purse, an old and universal name. Ger. Hirtentas. 

 che ; Yx, Bottrse de Berger. 



CORONOPUS (SENEBIERA). f.b.i. io xxx.^ 



Annual or biennial prostrate branching herbs with 

 leaf-opposed racemes of small white flowers charac- 

 terised by the fruit being composed of two globular 

 one-seeded parts. 



Species about twelve, mostly in subtropical climates. 



Coronopus didyma Linn. (Sencbicra Poir) ; XXX^ i ; 

 Wartcress. A small weed. Leaves ^ to lYz by ^ inch, 

 deeply pinnatifid into narrow leaflet-like segments. 

 Fruit of two globular parts each 1/12 inch. 



A native of tropical America now spread as a weed in many 

 lands. Ootacamund road-sides. 



VIOLACE/E. F.B.I. 13. 



A family of twenty-one genera of which the most 

 important is VIOLA. 



VIOLA. F.B.I. 13 I. 



Violet, Pansy, etc. 

 The flower of the Violet, the only genus here, as in 

 Europe of this family, is probably known to all. There 

 are five pointed sepals, produced backwards at the base; 

 five petals, four of them normal, the fifth and lowest 

 rather larger and produced backwards as a hollow spur ; 

 five stamens with short broad filaments, large anthers, 

 and small brown flaps surmounting them ; and a central 

 one-celled ovary with three rows of seeds attached to 

 the wall, and a single style. Two of the stamens have 

 extensions running back into the spur of the lowest 

 petal, and when these are jogged by the proboscis of a 

 bee or pther insect, while it is sucking the honey secreted 



