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78. V. hirta, L. Hairy Violet. 



Native ; on banks and in waste bushy and rocky spots. Com- 

 mon, but showing local tendencies. JNIarch, April, 

 c. I. Between Latchbrook and Notter Bridge, and elsewhere in the 

 parish of St. Stephens. Between Crafthole and Looe. Between 

 Polbathick and Hessenford. Near Sheviock. Pillaton. 

 II. Near Torpoint in a brake, adjoining Ti-evol ; Keys, S. D. Lit. 

 Chron. 182. Below Tregantle Fort, close to the coast. St. 

 Johns. About Botus Flemmg. Landulph. Between Etheric 

 and Cotehele. Penlee Point, where also a white-flowered 

 variety grows ! ; Keys, Fl. ii. 49. 

 D. III. Pennycross, and about Kmg's Tamerton. Warleigh, and else- 

 M'here in the parish of Tamerton Foliot. Beer Ferrers, m 

 plenty. 

 IV. Under the Citadel, Plymouth ; Mount Batten, &c. ; Keys. Fl. ih. 

 Cattedown. Common on the limestone between the Plym 

 estuary and Elburton. Fursdon, and elsewhere in the parish 

 of Egg Buckland. Cann Wood. Elfordleigh. 

 V. Wembury. Revelstoke. Newton Ferrers. Between Dunstone 

 and Holbeton. Between Yeo and Stretchley. Plentiful in 

 lanes between Plyrapton and Brixton, and about Yealmpton. 

 VI. Carsewell. Mothecombe. Efford. 

 This violet seems to shun the cold and elevated srranitic tracts. 



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79. V. sylvatica, Fries. Dog Violet. 

 Native. 



a. Rivbiiana, Reich. 



On hedge-banks, in and about woods, and sometimes on com- 

 mons. Very common. March to May. 

 Area general. I liave found a slight variety with flowers of a claret 

 colour in Districts i. iv. and v., but only smgly m each ; in District ii., 

 however, I some years ago met with more than a dozen plants, growing 

 near together by the Saltash and Callington Road at Hatt. At Common 

 Wood, in District iv., I have seen a few plants with light lilac flowers. 



Viola Riviniana is our commonest violet. It is often very small on 

 the commons ; but its mode of growth and the colour of the spur serve 

 to distmguish it from the forms of V. canina, L. 



h. Reichenhachiana, Bor. 



On the banks of hollow lanes, and in other shady and wooded 

 spots. Local. March to part of INIay. 

 c. II. Lane between Millbrook and Whitsand Bay. Very sparingly at 

 Moditonham ; also by a lane near Carkeel. Cotehele, in fair 

 quantity on a woodland bank between the Quay and Cleave. 



