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to. Near Basildon I gathered a hybrid of the two speoies which was 

 much nearer to V. hiria, but the tiowers were slightly odorous. 

 V. hirta occurs in all the bordering counties. 



V. silvestris. Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 680 1778), teste Indice Kewensi. Eeichb. 

 Fl. Germ. Exc. 707 (1830-2. 

 V. Reichent-achiana, Jordan, ap. Boreau, Fl. Centre Fr. ed. 3, ii. 78 ^1857}. 

 Top. Bot. 56. Syme, E. B. ii. 20. t. 174. Xymaii. 77. Fl. Oxf. 40. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods, thickets, and shady hedge-banks. Local. 



P. April-May. 

 First i-ecord. Viola Reichenbachiana by Messrs. Boswell, Eeeks, and 

 Britten, in Britt. Corxtr. 1871. 

 1. Isis. Appleton. TVytham. Copse near Cumnor. 

 •2. Ock. Bagley. Bos^ceU. Tubney. Sunningwell. Uffington. 



3. Pang. Sulham Wood. Tufnail Frilsham. Streatley. Hamp- 



^tead Norris. Hermitage. Basildon. Standford Dingley. 



4. Kennet. Eleot. Eeeks, in Britt. Contr. Farnborough. Curridge. 



Snelsmore. Plentiful in Irish Wood. Kintbury, Hampstead 

 Marshall woods. Enbome. 



5. Loddon. Bisham Wood, Britten, Windsor Park, rare, Bolton 



King. Bracknell. 



Xear Cumnor. in Bagley, and at Basildon. Plants have been noticed 

 which are probably hybrids of this species with F. Riviniana. If not, 

 they are intermediate in character. They have the blue spur of 

 V. silvestris, but it is much more deeply channelled, and the flowers 

 are larger. 



The leaves of this species are often of a dark purple tint, especially 

 on the under surface ;/. cuprea]. The flowers are sometimes of a very 

 pale colour. 



Viola S'ilvesti'is is much scarcer and usually prefers more shady locali- 

 ties than V. Ririniana, but it is widely distributed in Berkshire, and 

 has been reported from all the bordering counties. 



V. Biviniana, Reichb., Ic. PI. Crit. i. 81 '1823). Dog Violet. 



V. canina. Curt. Fl. Lond. i. 182. V. syhatica, Fries. Herb. Norm. 



Suec. 181 7. 

 Top. Bot. 56. Syme. E. B. ii. 19. t. 173. Nyman, 77. FL Oxf, 40, 

 Native. Sylvestral, septal. Woods, hedges, heathy places, &c. Common 



and generally distributed, except on the grassy chalk downs or in 



country under com crops. P. April -.June. Also in September. 

 First record. V. canina, Mavor's Agr. Berks. 1809. First precise record, 



V. canina, var. a. syhatica, Streatley, W. Pamplin, in Phyt. v. p. 154, 



1854- 

 It was probably on this species that Baxter saw Fuccinium riolarum 



and Aecidium violae in Bagley Wood about 1830. 



